Abstract
This chapter focuses chiefly on the networked citizen ideal. It clarifies the concept and positions it within the wider framework of the book. The chapter argues that in a world where politics is increasingly dependent on digital communication media, what defines citizens is to be connected, networked with both each other and the communication galaxy that surrounds them. After defining what does the term networked mean in the context of the book, the chapter makes clear that the networked citizen at the centre of this book is as an ideal-type, an abstract model, that can help us make sense of the way in which some people engage in politics in today’s networked world.
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Chadwick 2006.
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Coleman and Blumler 2009, 166–97.
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Bennett and Segerberg 2013.
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Morozov 2012.
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Shirky 2009.
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Katz 1997.
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Tormey 2015.
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Sey and Castells 2004, 368–69.
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Olson 2003, 17–18.
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Bennett and Segerberg 2012, 750.
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Noveck 2015.
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Bennett and Segerberg 2012, 749.
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The term Web used here derived from World Wide Web, the application invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 to help users better organize and find information on the Internet. The Internet is a network of computers, the World Wide Web is mostly a collection of resources (web pages) hosted on the network by host services companies. However, here in this book, for convenience, the two terms, the Internet and the Web , are often used interchangeably. Berners-Lee and Fischetti 1999.
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Baran 1964.
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Navarria, G. (2019). The Networked Citizen. In: The Networked Citizen. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3293-7_3
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