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« Chemnitz » takes part in the European Local Democracy Week - a paneuropean event coordinated by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe - as « Partner city »

Online Participation: Opportunities and Challenges of Political Participation on the Net

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23/05/2022
Presentation and following discussion. The terms "online participation," "digital citizen participation" and "e-democracy" have been around for some time. But what exactly is meant by these terms? What does it have to do with me? And what role does media competence play in all of that? The lecture and following discussion will address these questions and build a bridge between media skills and political participation. In the lecture, media scientist Anna Soßdorf will first give an overview of the various forms of digital participation, then she will go into detail about the goals and different topics of participation projects. The focus will be on practical examples of successful online participation and tips on how to initiate your own participation projects. The speaker works at the Düsseldorf Institute for Internet and Democracy (DID) at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. She teaches and researches there on the topics of digitization and civic education. This event is sponsored by the Sächsische Landesmedienanstalt.