A communication genre perspective on e-Petitioning: The case of the citizens' initiative

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7444 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 37-48

  Grönlund, Åke ^a   Susha, Iryna ^a  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

communication studies; e petition; eParticipation; European Citizens' Initiative (ECI); genre theory

Indexed keywords

CIVIL SOCIETY; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; E-PARTICIPATION; E-PETITION; EUROPEAN CITIZENS' INITIATIVE (ECI); GENRE SYSTEMS; GENRE THEORY; TECHNOLOGICAL DETERMINISM;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84866040957     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33250-0_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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