... underlying assumptions that are often taken for granted in research. If we want to look at how ITs are changing our global information society, we need to critically examine these issues and assumptions. Political economy Communication Media Democracy Public sphere The ever increasing reliance...

... is a particularly fruitful approach, since it provides the conceptual and methodological equipment to account for democracy in terms of processes of issue formation. Such an account of democracy, it is argued, is particularly appropriate to the study of ICT‐based democratic processes, since in the context of ICT...