U.S.-Netherlands Cooperation Workshop: Electronic Networks & Democratic Life, Piran, Slovenia

[0123029 . harrison]该奖项支持11名美国参与者（包括初级研究人员）参加跨大西洋研讨会“电子网络与民主生活”。组织者是伦斯勒理工学院的特蕾莎·哈里森和荷兰奈梅亨大学的尼古拉斯·扬科夫斯基。研讨会的目标是阐明主要的研究问题，这些问题将确立研究重点，产生合作项目，并为比较研究奠定基础。具体而言，研讨会将讨论系统特征与用户行为之间的关系，新技术在政治和政府行动中的应用，以及在线公民话语的性质和后果。讲习班的目标是发展一个参与电子网络和民主生活合作研究项目的国际研究团体。

0123029HarrisonThis award supports travel of eleven US participants, including junior researchers, to a transatlantic workshop, "Electronic Networks and Democratic Life." The organizers are Teresa Harrison of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Nicholas Jankowski of the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The objective of the workshop is to articulate major research questions that will establish research priorities, generate collaborative projects, and lay the basis for comparative studies. Specifically, the workshop will address relationships between system characteristics and user behaviors, uses of new technologies for political and government action, and the nature and consequences of online civic discourse. The goal of the workshop is the development of an international research community participating in collaborative research projects on e-networks and democratic life.