1. E-democracy is the key for the future action As for the term “E-democracy”, many definitions focus on the usage of ICT into political process and public decisions based on needs of citizens. As the idea of e-democracy is continuously improved, my approach to e-democracy as a phenomenon resulting from the usage of ICT as a tool is to enhance democratic system of governance. There is no doubt ...

Abstract This article provides an introduction to the Asiascape: Digtial Asia special issue on digital democracy. It readers with a brief overview of literature that deals democracy and marginalized groups online, followed by contributions make up this issue. argues is only as strong voices its margins, it calls for deeper reflection about how we can create more inclusive models in beyond.

Freedom of speech secures cultural democracy as well as political democracy. Just as it is important to make state power accountable to citizens, it is also important to give people a say over the development of forms of cultural power that transcend the state. In a free society, people should have the right to participate in the forms of meaning-making that shape who they are and that help con...

While the Internet is often touted as a revolutionary technology, it might be noted that democratic institutions have witnessed no digital revolution through the Internet. This observation leads this chapter to argue that the field of e-democracy has generally failed to live up to its own reformist rhetoric. It argues that instead of reforming government processes through technology, e-democrac...

Online discussions are the essence of many social platforms on the Internet. Conversations in online forums are traditionally presented in a hierarchical structure. In contrast, online social networking services usually show discussions linearly by sorting messages in chronological order. How discussion networks are affected by choosing a specific view has never been investigated in the literat...

This paper develops a positive theory of growth and redistribution in which agents care about both their absolute and relative levels of consumption. As in Alesina and Rodrik (1994), public goods are productive and are financed by a tax on capital. Equilibrium tax policy is chosen by a pivotal voter and is shown to reflect the strength of status preferences and the distributions of wealth and p...

The objective of this article is to examine how the inequalities of participation in network society governmental systems affect the extent that individuals are empowered or disempowered within those systems. By using published data in conjunction with theories of communication, a critical secondary data analysis was conducted. This critical analysis argues that the Digital Divide involves issu...

Digital democracy provides a new space for community involvement in democratic life. This study aims to conduct systematic literature review uncover the trend of concepts digital democracy. used descriptive analysis with data sources derived from Scopus database period between 2014 and 2020 (a total 230 articles) processed VOSviewer. The results showed three dominant concepts, namely democracy,...

We argue that the global digital divide, as measured by cross-national differences in Internet use, is the result of the economic, regulatory, and sociopolitical characteristics of countries and their evolution over time. We predict Internet use to increase with world-system status, privatization and competition in the telecommunications sector, democracy, and cosmopolitanism. Using data on 118...