Defining the “E” in E-Democracy: a genre lens on IT artefacts
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چکیده
The field of e-Democracy has suffered from fuzzy conceptualizations about the actual role of ICT in the field. That is, the contribution of “e” in e-Democracy has been difficult to justify. To address the role of ICT in e-Democracy projects we contribute theoretically by combining knowledge on IT artefacts, genres and E-Democracy models to be able to explore ICT in its embedded surroundings. IT artefacts can be seen as technology embedded by tasks, structures and contexts. We argue that the genre perspective of organizational communication, characterized by substance and form (focusing on tasks and structures) combined with E-Democracy models (focusing on contexts) can help to understand the link between the technology and the embedded surroundings. To illustrate the explanatory potential of the suggested approach, genres for different E-Democracy models are identified from empirical research reports of EDemocracy initiatives.
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