TY  - BOOK
AU  - Blick,Andrew
TI  - Electrified democracy: the internet and the United Kingdom Parliament in history 
T2  - Law in context
SN  - 9781108602006 (ebook)
AV  - JN550 .B55 2021
U1  - 325.4100285/4678 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Parliament
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Internet
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1945-
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jun 2021); The internet debate since 1990 -- The permanent platform: Parliament online, 1996-2020 -- Technology and transformation: perspectives up to 1945 -- Disillusion and expectation, 1945-1990 -- The political and constitutional context -- Computers, networks and Parliament up to 1996 -- Pressures, resistance, and possibilities in Parliament since 1996 -- Promotion and regulation, parliamentary assessments of the Internet since 1996
N2  - The story of how the UK Parliament came to use the Internet from the 1960s onwards has never been told. Electrified Democracy places the impact of technology on parliamentary workings in its longer term historical context. The author identifies repeating patterns of perception and analysis, and cultural tendencies in the perception of inventions dating back over centuries that have reasserted themselves in connection with the parliamentary response to networked computers. He uncovers evidence and makes new connections, while situating all this within the wider global debates on connections between communication and democracy in the age of the Internet, constitutional law and history, and 'law and technology'. This book will be of interest to a wide readership including policy makers, researchers, and all those interested in contemporary controversies about the role of the Internet in modern societies
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108602006
ER  -