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Crowdsourced Politics

The Rise of Online Petitions & Micro-Donations
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This book focuses on online petitioning and crowdfunding platforms to demonstrate the everyday impact that digital communications have had on contemporary citizen participation. In doing do, the book argues that crowdsourced participation has become normalised and institutionalised into the everyday repertoires of citizens and their organisations. Within the digitally-enabled shift in individual acts of participation, creating, signing and sharing online petitions and micro-donations have become a focal point because of the clear evolution from their offline and online counterparts. To illustrate their arguments the authors use an original nationally representative survey on acts of political engagement, undertaken with Australian citizens. Additionally, through detailed interviews and analysis of their web presence they show how advocacy organisations use online petitions within their repertoire of strategic actions. Lastly, they analyse the kinds of policy issues that mobilise citizens on crowdsourcing platforms, based on a unique dataset of 17,000 petitions from the popular non-government platform, Change.org. They contrast these mass public concerns with the policy agenda of the government of the day to show there is a disjuncture and general lack of responsiveness to this form of citizen expression. 

Author Biography:

Ariadne Vromen is Professor of Public Administration at the Australian National University. Until mid-2020 she was Professor of Political Sociology at the University of Sydney. She has long-term research interests in political engagement, including a significant project on how young people use social media for civic engagement in Australia, the UK, and the USA. Darren Halpin is Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University. He has published widely on the topics of interest groups and organized interests, including recent articles in Governance, British Journal of Political Science, Journal of European Public Policy and Public Administration. Michael Vaughan is a post-doctoral researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Freie University Berlin, on a project on Digitalisation and the Transnational Public Sphere. 
Release date NZ
August 19th, 2022
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Edition
1st ed. 2022
Illustrations
4 Illustrations, color; 16 Illustrations, black and white; XI, 143 p. 20 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Pages
143
ISBN-13
9789811943560
Product ID
35957909

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