The citizen in the information polity

Exposing the limits of the e-government paradigm

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6148945
AutoresJohn A Taylor (0000-0002-9919-5818, Glasgow Caledonian University), A M B Lips (Victoria University of Wellington)
Año2008
Volumen13
Número3,4
Páginas139-152
Fecha de publicación2008-12-28
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInformation Polity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1875-8754 • E-ISSN: 1570-1255
EditorialIOS Press (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.3233/ip-2008-0163
OpenAlexW1919274085
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16
Referencias citadas10

The rise of 'e-government', both as a recognized field of practice and an identifiable and legitimate field of study, has occurred extraordinarily rapidly throughout the world. The term 'e-government' has come to capture and de-limit in toto what might be termed the agenda for government in the age of the Internet. This article questions the value of the orthodox interpretation, the paradigm, that has so rapidly emerged around e-government, in particular the casual assumption that e-government is ipso facto 'citizen-centric'. In so-doing this article reveals a concern that different questions must be asked in order to understand 'e-government' and its implications fully and fundamentally. If we are to ask these different questions rather than those to which we are drawn under the orthodox e-government frame of reference then this field will become more theoretically informed, particularly in ways that aid our understanding of 'citizenship' in the 'e-ubiquitous' State

Government (linguistics · Political science · Politics · Polity · E-Government and Public Services · Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting · Law · Philosophy · Public Administration · Social Media and Politics