This text focuses on the concept of citizen participation, highlighted during electoral campaigns. Does digital technology enhance citizen participation? Does it facilitate the exercise of citizenship? Is it, instead, merely political posturing? Through the analysis of the 2012 electoral campaign, this chapter shows how citizen mobilization is not self-evident, and how it can be instrumentalized.

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Digital: A Tool for More Citizen Participation in Election Campaign? Between Display and Fluctuation Around the Concept of Citizen Participation During the French Presidential Election of 2012

  • Anaïs Theviot

摘要

This text focuses on the concept of citizen participation, highlighted during electoral campaigns. Does digital technology enhance citizen participation? Does it facilitate the exercise of citizenship? Is it, instead, merely political posturing? Through the analysis of the 2012 electoral campaign, this chapter shows how citizen mobilization is not self-evident, and how it can be instrumentalized.