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Technological Features and the Structuring of Political Participation: A Lens for Investigating Social Inclusion and E-Governance

Technological Features and the Structuring of Political Participation: A Lens for Investigating Social Inclusion and E-Governance

Vassilis Meneklis
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 14
ISBN13: 9781466661066|ISBN10: 1466661062|EISBN13: 9781466661073
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6106-6.ch006
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Meneklis, Vassilis. "Technological Features and the Structuring of Political Participation: A Lens for Investigating Social Inclusion and E-Governance." E-Governance and Social Inclusion: Concepts and Cases, edited by Scott Baum and Arun Mahizhnan, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 83-96. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6106-6.ch006

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Meneklis, V. (2014). Technological Features and the Structuring of Political Participation: A Lens for Investigating Social Inclusion and E-Governance. In S. Baum & A. Mahizhnan (Eds.), E-Governance and Social Inclusion: Concepts and Cases (pp. 83-96). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6106-6.ch006

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Meneklis, Vassilis. "Technological Features and the Structuring of Political Participation: A Lens for Investigating Social Inclusion and E-Governance." In E-Governance and Social Inclusion: Concepts and Cases, edited by Scott Baum and Arun Mahizhnan, 83-96. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6106-6.ch006

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Abstract

This chapter develops a theoretical lens based on the structurational perspective of technology for the analysis and investigation of such social aspects in e-Governance as social inclusion. After presenting a brief description of the research context and motivations in the introductory section, it continues with presenting the epistemological approach of interpretivism that the structurational perspective employs and the central tenets of Structuration Theory. Subsequently, it identifies the major dimensions of the context of social inclusion and construes them by using ideas and concepts from Structuration Theory. The chapter closes with some implications for research on social inclusion in e-Governance and the concluding remarks of the work.

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