The communication of communication. An illustration: The South African rhetorical promotion of ICTs
| dc.contributor.author | Péjout, Nicolas | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-07-18T10:10:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-07-18T10:10:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2015-12-17T10:17:44Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | The South African government expects a ‘radical democratization’ from the access to and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as political resources. A close look at the official discourse reveals that these technologies ought to foster a deliberative and participatory democracy (electronic democracy) on the one hand and a ‘delivery democracy’ (electronic government) on the other. However, this public rhetoric is flawed by a lack of logical coherence and, therefore, can be read as a miscommunication. It is also problematic in its content. Indeed, ICTs cannot, by themselves, realize the ideal of the public sphere as conceptualized by Ju¨rgen Habermas. Characterized by the reign of the prefix ‘cyber-e-tele’, the South African discourse is embedded into a complex mix of myth, ideology and utopia. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier | 10.1080/0258934042000280724 | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Péjout, N. (2004). The communication of communication. An illustration: The South African rhetorical promotion of ICTs. <i>Politikon</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20398 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Péjout, Nicolas "The communication of communication. An illustration: The South African rhetorical promotion of ICTs." <i>Politikon</i> (2004) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20398 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Nicolas Péjout (2004) The communication of communication. An illustration: the South African rhetorical promotion of ICTS, Politikon, 31:2, 185-199. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0258-9346 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Péjout, Nicolas AB - The South African government expects a ‘radical democratization’ from the access to and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) as political resources. A close look at the official discourse reveals that these technologies ought to foster a deliberative and participatory democracy (electronic democracy) on the one hand and a ‘delivery democracy’ (electronic government) on the other. However, this public rhetoric is flawed by a lack of logical coherence and, therefore, can be read as a miscommunication. It is also problematic in its content. Indeed, ICTs cannot, by themselves, realize the ideal of the public sphere as conceptualized by Ju¨rgen Habermas. Characterized by the reign of the prefix ‘cyber-e-tele’, the South African discourse is embedded into a complex mix of myth, ideology and utopia. DA - 2004 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Politikon LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2004 SM - 0258-9346 T1 - The communication of communication. An illustration: The South African rhetorical promotion of ICTs TI - The communication of communication. An illustration: The South African rhetorical promotion of ICTs UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20398 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20398 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0258934042000280724 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Péjout N. The communication of communication. An illustration: The South African rhetorical promotion of ICTs. Politikon. 2004; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20398. | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Centre for Rhetoric Studies | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | Politikon | en_ZA |
| dc.source.uri | http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cpsa20/current | |
| dc.title | The communication of communication. An illustration: The South African rhetorical promotion of ICTs | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
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