Citizenship and electoral techno-politics. Ideas and bureaucratic limits to digital participation

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Víctor F. Sampedro Blanco
José Manuel Sánchez Duarte https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5627-2713
Monica Poletti https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0785-0254

Keywords

participation, elections, online democracy, online election campaign

Abstract

We explore the attitudes of the Spanish towards the online tools put forward by the political figures during the Spanish general elections in 2008. We analyze six discussion groups according to age, ideology, and their level of involvement in political institutions. We explore to what point the generation gap between online users and previous voters, the selfimposed ideological standpoints, and belonging to political parties or social movements influences the perception of online politics. The results are complex. Citizens perceived how the equality of online practices doesn’t correspond to the potential of a distorted online democracy.

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