Global Interconnectedness - Local Authorities and Transnational Networking
This article argues that, in their continuous and proclaimed efforts at "modernizing" themselves, public sector organizations, also at the sub-national level, increasingly envision the new media as an object of policy making and intervention. At the same time, this focus on the new...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Danish |
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Sammenslutningen af Medieforskere i Danmark (SMID)
2006-09-01
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| Series: | MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research |
| Online Access: | http://ojs.statsbiblioteket.dk/index.php/mediekultur/article/view/1314 |
| Summary: | This article argues that, in their continuous and proclaimed efforts at
"modernizing" themselves, public sector organizations, also at the
sub-national level, increasingly envision the new media as an object
of policy making and intervention. At the same time, this focus on the
new media facilitates transborder networking, taking the shape of
globalizing webs that connect the actors internationally through pro-
cesses af mediation and with implications for relations af authority
and modes of governance. As such, these webs both constitute and
facilitate a form of everyday political globalization which is on the rise.
Empirically, our account is based on studies of two local authorities,
the cities of Vina del Mar in Chile and Bremen in Germany, as two of
the transnational networks that connect them. |
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| ISSN: | 0900-9671 1901-9726 |