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Technology and the Nature of Active Citizenship - EuroAfrica-ICT

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Analytical Framework & Research<br />

Methods<br />

• Participatory model<br />

o civil society exists away from <strong>the</strong> state <strong>and</strong> (will be) mediated<br />

electronically<br />

o organic emergence <strong>of</strong> democracy<br />

o voluntary associations, spontaneous interactions within<br />

cyber-space<br />

o access is enough to encourage wider political participation<br />

o state protects free speech <strong>and</strong> rights <strong>of</strong> expression<br />

o participatory model will replace <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r two through <strong>the</strong><br />

logic <strong>of</strong> information society<br />

o discursive model <strong>of</strong> information

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