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Introductio n: Political Communication, Digital Technology and the Challenges of the »New Normal«

The conundrums and contradictions were at the heart of the motivations for a conference held in Rovinj, Croatia in October 2015. The topic was “Communication, Democracy and Digital Technology”, organised by a committee formed from three research clusters of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) covering Electronic Democracy (RC10), Political Communication (RC22) and the Quality of Democracy (RC34). The contributors to the event, some of which feature in this volume, focused on the intersection between the three strands of political science represented ; each of which ask questions of vital importance for the well-being of democracy globally. These questions 5MEDIJSKE STUDIJEMEDIA STUDIES2016. 7. (14). 2-11 UvoDna bIlJEšKa / EDITORS’ NOTE DOI: 10.20901/ms.7.14.2 revolve around measures, standards and analyses of the quality of democracy, the role of political communication in enhancing democracy and the extent that the technological affordances claimed as implicit in digital technologies offer real potential for a richer, interactive and co-created politics. The work here therefore contributes to a broader enquiry on how communicative acts, particularly but not exclusively those which take place using digital technologies, contribute positively or negatively to the quality of the democratic experience citizens enjoy and so to building and sustaining active democracies.

communication, digital technologies, democracy

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