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)
Department of political and public communication
-University of Paris 12 Val-de-Marne
80, avenue du Général de Gaulle
Immeuble La Pyramide, Floor 4, room 406
94009 Créteil - France
0033 1 45 17 71 86 (office)
0033 6 63 72 06 60 (mobile)
<mailto:(stephanie.wojcik /at/ univ-paris12.fr)>(stephanie.wojcik /at/ univ-paris12.fr)
