ISBN : 9782343000213
JUST A TOOL? E-EUROPE: SOCIAL NETWORKS AND POLICY MAKING
Serge Dufoulon et Gilles Rou et
How can web media and digital technologies enable individuals to engage in new forms of social organization and participation? How can this influence policy? How can social networks, created through the Internet, help in redefining how people communicate and interact? How and why may the resulting new social context change the policy making process? In other words, how can these new communication media - as a tool - participate in the process of individuation, in the context of "glocalization"? What are their limitations and advantages? In this paper, a few examples, taken mostly from the European context, are mobilized with respect to these questions. A social network...