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Democratic Potentials of UN Climate Change Conference Host Government Websites

Democratic Potentials of UN Climate Change Conference Host Government Websites

Catherine Candano
Copyright: © 2016 |Pages: 27
ISBN13: 9781466686199|ISBN10: 1466686197|EISBN13: 9781466686205
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8619-9.ch070
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Candano, Catherine. "Democratic Potentials of UN Climate Change Conference Host Government Websites." Web Design and Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 1544-1570. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8619-9.ch070

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Candano, C. (2016). Democratic Potentials of UN Climate Change Conference Host Government Websites. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Web Design and Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (pp. 1544-1570). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8619-9.ch070

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Candano, Catherine. "Democratic Potentials of UN Climate Change Conference Host Government Websites." In Web Design and Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 1544-1570. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-8619-9.ch070

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Abstract

E-government discourse implicates state-produced Websites to enable opportunities and citizen spaces on policy issues, subject to demands to be inclusive, engaging, and free from commercial interests. Policy-making for a global issue like climate change takes place at the inter-governmental United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNCCC). It becomes critical to examine if and how the governments hosting this restrictive global policy-making space may engage citizens through their online presence—host country conference outreach Websites. The chapter explores relational underpinnings between states and citizens in such Websites by examining the values privileged by designers using mixed methods. Among UNCCC Websites from 2007 to 2009, the Danish government Website's enhanced features may have contributed to potential inclusivity for the inter-governmental process online compared to previous government's efforts. However, findings have shown such interactive Website's inherent design aspects may potentially shape the manner that climate conversations are limited in an assumed democratized space online.

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