[eccr] Political Representation in the Digital Age

Political Representation in the Digital Age


Friday October 10 2003

Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford



How are electronic communications and the internet impacting on political 
representation?



The idea of the internet as a technology which would displace 
representation by direct citizen action is giving way to the idea of the 
internet as a technology which will change everyday understandings of 
representationand could bring the tensions of political representation into 
relief.  Contributions to  political theory that emphasise that political, 
governing power is at root representational are increasingly challenging 
projects of direct self-government and the neutralisation of political 
power. Far from eliminating representation, the internet highlights 
normative questions of responsibility, authority, freedom and equality that 
must be addressed by all political actors whether organised, disorganised, 
individual or collective, citizens or politicians, power seekers or power 
challengers.

Programme

9.30      Coffee

10.00   Political Representation and Political Power

             Chair: William Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute


Stephen Coleman, University of Oxford

             Michael Saward, Open University

             Elizabeth Frazer, University of Oxford

11.30    Political Strategies

             Chair: Andreas Busch, University of Oxford, Department of Politics

             Brian Loader, University of Teesside

             Steve Ward, University of Salford

12.30    Lunch

1.30      From the RepresentativesPoint of View

             Chair: Ignas Snellen, Erasmus University, Rotterdam

             Richard Allan MP(Sheffield Hallam)

             Graham Allen MP (Nottingham North)

             Jens Hoff, University of Copenhagen

             Marc Mausch, German Green Party

3.30      Tea

4.00      Conclusions

Panel discussion:  Bill Dutton, Andreas Busch, Ignas Snellen and Giles Moss 
(Research Student, University of Oxford Department of Politics)

4.45      Finish

To Register: please contact (andrew.fairweather-tall /at/ politics.ox.ac.uk)


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