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Rausim ! Digital Politics in Papua New Guinea

Rausim ! Digital Politics in Papua New Guinea. Sarah Logan Department of International Relations ANU www.ircircuit.com @ circt. The Research Environment - Limits in current scholarship

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Rausim ! Digital Politics in Papua New Guinea

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  1. Rausim! Digital Politics in Papua New Guinea Sarah Logan Department of International Relations ANU www.ircircuit.com @circt

  2. The Research Environment - Limits in current scholarship - Amanda Watson, (2011): ‘The mobile phone : the new communication drum of Papua New Guinea’ Queensland University of Technology eprints. - Intermedia (2012), Citizen access to information in Papua New Guinea 2012

  3. The Media Environment • Media dark - Radio and mobile phones are most prevalent

  4. ICT in PNG: the statistics

  5. Transparency • Positive and negative effects • Bailard (2012) A Field Experiment on the Internet's Effect in an African Election: Savvier Citizens, Disaffected Voters, or Both? Journal of Communication v62(2) 330 – 344

  6. Political Engagement and the Public Sphere • Democratisation: DiMaggio et al, (2001). Social implications of the internet. Annual Review of Sociology, 27:307; Groshek (2012) The democratic effects of the internet 1994 – 2003, a cross national study of 152 countries, The International Communication Gazette 71(3) 115-136 • Fracturing: Hindman (2008) The Myth of Digital DemocracyPrincenton University Press; Sunstein, Cass R. (2001). Republic.com. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. • New actors: women + diaspora

  7. Protest/mobilisation • ‘Complex contagion’: Centola, Macy (2007). Complex contagion and the weakness of long ties. American Journal of Sociology, 113(3):702 - Rumour: Goldstein et al (2008) Digitally networked Technology in Kenya’s 2007 – 2008 Post-Election Crisis Berkman Center for Internet and Society

  8. PNG: a special case • Mediadark • Low literacy rates • Under-researched information culture • Distinct forms of social capital

  9. ICT and the Practice of Politics in PNG Source: Kelly et al (2008) Mapping the Persian Blogosphere, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Adamic and Glance (2005) The political blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. election: Divided they blog. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Link Discovery

  10. The political economy of ICT in PNG • Does ICT use change the way citizens think about the state and its capacities? • Are citizens who use ICT more or less engaged? • Contemporary leadership in PNG - Does online influence translate into offline influence and vice versa? - How do women use ICT in PNG?

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