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Wednesday 13:00 - 14:40 CEST (04/09/2019)
Information and Communication Technologies’ (ICTs) impacts on political parties is a growing research avenue. So far, most of the academic attention has been focused on party competition and campaigning, while the intra-organizational dimensions have been somewhat under-researched (Gibson and Ward, 1998; Margetts, 2006; Ward and Gibson, 2009; Hartleb, 2013; Chadwick and Stromer-Galley, 2016; Bennett, Segerberg and Knüpfer, 2018). In the same vein, most of the research has so far concentrated with mainstream parties’ transition to the digital age, while the literature on new or emerging parties and ICTs has somewhat been attracted less attention (Hartleb, 2013; della Porta et al., 2017; Morlino and Raniolo, 2017). This panel focuses therefore on the change in traditional party organization through digital technology, and more specifically on the growing use of digital modes of decision-making, campaigning and communication in both mainstream parties and new parties. The main purpose of this panel is to analyse how mainstream and new parties are building their e-platforms and transitioning from traditional (offline) organizations into the digital world. Potential papers could cover single empirical in-depth case studies that might focus on how ICTs are shaping parties’ main intra-organizational dimensions (communication, electoral campaigning, deliberation, decision making, membership, etc.), but also papers focusing on comparative case studies and more theoretically oriented papers linking political communication studies with political parties’ formation and institutionalization theories, and intra-party democracy debates.
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Is Digital Revolution in Korean Political Communication Expanding its Democracy? Focusing on Digital Political Communications in Korea from 1993 to 2018 | View Paper Details |
In the Wake of YouTube’s ‘Ad-Pocalypse’: Biased Algorithms and Securitisation | View Paper Details |
The New Expression of Plebiscitary Democracy in the Age of ICTs ꟷ Towards a Research Agenda | View Paper Details |
Floating (On) Platforms: An Assessment of Ideological Uncertainties within Left-Wing Digital Parties | View Paper Details |