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[ecrea] panel on "European Elections and the Internet", IPSA intermediary conference, Luxembourg, 18-20 March 2010

Mon Oct 26 16:36:21 GMT 2009



Dear DEL members,

A panel on "European elections and the Internet" (see below and in attachment) co-organized by the RC10 "Electronic Democracy" and the RC22 "Political Communication" will take place at the next intermediary IPSA conference in Luxembourg (March 18-20, 2010).

If you are interesting in this panel, please feel free to submit your abstract on the Luxembourg website by November 15, 2009 : <http://www.luxembourg2010.org/abstract>http://www.luxembourg2010.org/abstract

The paper acceptances will be noticed mid-December. The full papers should be ready on February 10, 2010 so that the discussants can properly organize their comments.

Best wishes,

Stéphanie


PANEL 8 : European Elections and the Internet

The panel "European elections and the Internet" is proposed both by the RC10 "Electronic Democracy" and the RC22 "Political Communication". This panel issue is concerned with the use of e-democracy instruments during the last European elections in 27 countries in June 2009. The panel will analyse the implementation of e-campaigns and e-voting in different European countries. The Internet is often associated with the professionalization, diversification and increased inclusiveness in the voting process as well as the electoral campaigns. Problems of exclusion, trustworthiness and identity will be discussed as well as campaign related issues of targeting, personalisation, complexity and a trend to sound bytes and negative campaigning. The US presidential election 2009 were seen as a cornerstone in the use of e-campaigning. Is Europe adopting these strategies or are there new instruments? More precisely, we propose to explore five directions of research which are closely connected together. Staring with a general overview of electronic voting in relation to European elections the further focus is more on the professionalization of online campaigns. How useful is the internet in expanding the audiences through websites and social networks? Are new "participative campaigns" emerging substituting traditional "folkloric street campaigning"? Finally new E-tools to favour the formation of voters' preferences will be presented and analysed.



Dr. Stéphanie Wojcik
Lecturer in communication studies
Co-convenor of the research network "Electronic Democracy" (DEL) : <http://www.certop.fr/DEL>www.certop.fr/DEL Vice-chair of the Research Committee 10 "Electronic Democracy" - International Association of Political Science (IPSA)

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