Democracy and the Information Society in Europe

Download or read book Democracy and the Information Society in Europe written by Agnès Hubert and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication sets out to make the case for giving everyone the possibility of participating in the development of a European vision of democracy in the age of the information society. It asks what impact the new media are having on politics and representative democracy, looking at the growing relationship between politics and the media and the new links between democracy and representation. It also examines the effect of technological development on the broadening of the political arena and the new ways of exercising political responsibility.