The 22nd World Congress of the IPSA will take place in Madrid (Spain) from 8 to 12 July 2012. You will find below the 8 panels organized by the RC 10 on Electronic Democracy.
Panels in RC 10: Electronic Democracy
Chair RC 10 Norbert Kersting (Uni. Muenster)
norbert.kersting@uni-muenster.de
Co-chair RC 10: Stephanie Wojcik (Univ. Paris-Est Creteil) stephanie.wojcik@u-pec.fr
1. E-democracy and deliberation: Government and Parliament
Convenor: Prof. Norbert Kersting
Chair: Dr. Domagoj Bebić
Co-Chair: Dr. Raphael Kies
Discussant: Dr. Raphael Kies
Wednesday, July 11 - 11:00-12:45
School of Journalism / Facultad de Ciencas de la informacion - classroom 4
Papers:
• Citizens deliberating in a government website: What difference does it make? -
Azi Lev-On
• ePetition systems and political participation -
Knud Boehle, Ulrich Riehm
• Facebook usage by city mayors in Central and Southeastern Europe -
Domagoj Bebić, Milica Vuckovic
• Parliamentarian Blogs and Deliberative Democracy in Malaysia -
Rosyidah Muhamad
• Political representation and the quality of democracy – the use of ICT by members of Brazilian parliament -
Marcus Abilio Pereira, Flavio Cireno Fernandes
• The use of web 2.0 to improve political participation: how legislatures use the web to offer online political discussion -
Santiago Giraldo Luque
2. E-democracy and deliberation: Political parties and Civil society
Convenor : Prof. Norbert Kersting
Chair: Dr. Raphael Kies
Co-Chair: Dr. Domagoj Bebić
Discussant: Dr. Domagoj Bebic
Wednesday, July 11 - 13:00-14:45
School of Journalism / Facultad de Ciencas de la informacion - classroom 4
Papers:
• Debate the (French) Primary Round Online -
Anaïs Théviot, Marino de Luca
• New Media and Democracy: political engagement through e-participatory experiences in education -
Ursula Maier-Rabler, Stefan Huber
• Supporting young people's political participation through distributed discussion – lessons obtained from an EU pilot -
Simone Kimpeler, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, Ella Taylor-Smith, Ralf Lindner
• The effects of the Internet on political participation: the role of the Internet as a source of political information and a sphere for political discussion -
Kakuko Miyata
3. e-Revolution and Pluralism in Countries of the 2011 "Arab Spring:" Egypt and Tunisia (joint panel RC10/RC16)
Convenor: Prof. Krzysztof Jasiewicz
Chair: Dr. Rainer Eisfeld
Co-Chair: Prof. Norbert Kersting
Discussants:
Prof. Philip G. Cerny and Dr. Jason Abbott
Sunday, July 8 - 15:00-16:45
School of Pharmacy/Facultad de Farmacia - classroom 234
Papers:
• Al Jazeera and Citizen Journalists: The Intersection of Broadcast and Social Networks in the Arab Spring -
Muzammil Hussain
• Beyond ‘Renaissance’. The complex field of Islamism in Tunisia -
Francesco Cavatorta
• Civil Society Players with Different Political Projects in Egypt’s Mubarak and Post-Mubarak Periods: Implications for Gender Politics and the Demands of Womens’ Rights Groups -
Nicola Pratt
• Worker Mobilization and the Trade Union Movement in Egypt and Tunisia: A Comparative Analysis -
Francoise Clement
4. Electronic Administration, Innovations in Government-Citizen Relations
Convenor: Dr. Stéphanie Wojcik
Chair: Dr. Hal Colebatch
Co-Chair: Dr. Stéphanie Wojcik
Discussant : Prof. Jill Tao
Wednesday, July 11 - 15:00-16:45
Medicine - Lain Entralgo
Papers:
• Citizen privacy online – beyond the limits of government policymaking? -
Scott Brenton
Cyberdemocracy in Brazil: ways to increase the representative democracy -
Heloisa Bezerra, Vladimyr Jorge
• Designing the state: governments and citizen in the inherently digital era -
Helen Margetts, Patrick Dunleavy, Jane Tinkler, Scott Hale
• E-government benchmarking in Brazil: indicators of e-gov in the greater ABC region -
Jarbas Almeida
• Electronic Regimes -
Mauro Santaniello, Francesco Amoretti
5. Electronic voting re-vitalized
Convenor: Dr. Josep M. Reniu Vilamala
Chair: Dr. Josep M. Reniu Vilamala
Co-Chair: Prof. Richard Niemi
Discussant: Prof. Alexander Trechsel
Monday, July 9 - 15:00-16:45
School of Journalism / Facultad de ciencas de la informacion - classroom 11
Papers:
• Election Observation and Electronic Voting -
Robert Krimmer
• Internet Learning, Internet Voting: Using ICT in Estonia -
Thad Hall
• Internet voting in Norway 2011. Democratic and organisational experiences -
Harald Baldersheim
• Public dispute on electronic voting in Poland – near or far future? -
Arkadiusz Zukowski
• Testing e-participation : A case of e-voting system in Belgium -
Nicolas Rossignol, Céline Parotte
• The Road to Internet Voting in Bosnia and Herzegovina -
Vanja Malidžan
6. Open government
Convenor : Dr. Stéphanie Wojcik
Chair: Dr. Stéphanie Wojcik
Co-chair: Prof. Richard Engstrom
Discussant: Prof. Robert Smith
Wednesday, July 11 - 9:00-10:45
School of Journalism/Facultad de ciencas de la information - classroom 4
Papers:
• Government 2.0: Problems and Prospect -
Peter John Chen
• How to govern open data? Analysis of the modes of liberated data’s governance -
Antoine Courmont
• Learning to be more open and proactive: lessons in open government -
Mary Francoli
• Opendata as new commitment of governments : from injunction of transparency to coproduction of services -
Sarah Labelle, Jean-Baptiste Le Corf
• Tracking the diffusion of open data policy in the EU -
Francesca De Chiara
7. Scrutinizing mobilisation in networked politics
Convenor: Mr. Jorge Luis Salcedo Maldonado
Chair: Ms. Marta Cantijoch
Co-Chair: Dr. Mayo Fuster Morell
Discussants: Mr. Camilo Cristancho, Mr. Jorge Luis Salcedo Maldonado
Wednesday, July 11 - 15:00-16:45
School of Journalism/Facultad de ciencas de la information - classroom 4
Papers:
• Cloud protesting. On dissent in times of social media -
Stefania Milan
• Demonstrations as Hybrid Media Events: A Comparison of the Occupy Wall Street and Indignados Movements -
Michael Jensen
• Empowerment in Organization and Communication - A study of Hong Kong's anti-express rail link movement -
Jie Ying Wang
• Networked Politics in Action: The Advocacy of Net Neutrality in the United States -
Burcu Baykurt
• Organizations and initiatives: different models of activism in a Facebook referendum campaign -
Matteo Cernison
8. Social media revolution
Convenor: Dr. Jason Abbott
Chair: Dr. Jason Abbott
Monday, July 9 - 11:00-12:45
School of Pharmacy/Facultad de Farmacia - classroom 223
Papers:
• A Campaign Perspective on Social Media Motivation and Use by Congressional Candidates -
Jeff Gulati
• Democratizing Potential in Social Media: A Facebook Analysis -
Callie Spencer, Jeff Rose
• ICTs and Democratisation in South Korea: Digital Citizens Pushing Analogue Politicians -
Heike Hermanns
• Internet user and political trust in Europe -
Norbert Kersting