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Mediated democracy – Linking digital technology to political agency

Jeanette Hofmann, Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
PUBLISHED ON: 30 Jun 2019 DOI: 10.14763/2019.2.1416

This paper is part of Transnational materialities, a special issue of Internet Policy Review guest-edited by José van Dijck and Bernhard Rieder. 1. Digitalisation and democracy: proposal for a research perspective The relevance of digital media for contemporary democracies is a subject of increasing interest across the social sciences, the media and the political sphere. We are observing a growing diversity of political engagement, political actors and organisational forms, particularly around election and referendum campaigns. At the same time, conventional boundaries between social movements, public audiences and political parties, even between political and non-political action are …