Digital Media Usage Across the Life Course

Paul G Nixon is Principal Lecturer and Head of Research in European Studies, Faculty of Management and Organisation, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. He has contributed chapters to many edited collections on the use of ICTs particularly in the fields of political parties, electronic democracy and social welfare. He has co-edited five previous collections for Routledge Politics and the Internet in Comparative Context: Views from the Cloud (with Rajash Rawal and Dan Mercea), Understanding E Government in Europe: Issues and Challenges (with Vassiliki Koutrakou and Rajash Rawal 2010), E-Government in Europe (with Vassiliki Koutrakou 2007), Political Parties and the Internet (with Steve Ward and Rachel Gibson 2003) and Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and Social Movements (with Wim van der Donk, Brian Loader and Dieter Rucht, 2004). He has also published in the fields of culture and literature including editing a collection entitled Representations of Education in Literature (2000).

Rajash Rawal is a Principal Lecturer in Political Science at the Academy of European Studies and Communication Management, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands. He is a visiting lecturer at the Fachochschule, Eisenstadt, Austria and the Department of European Studies, Budapest Business School, Hungary. He has co-edited two previous collections for Routledge Politics and the Internet in Comparative Context: Views from the Cloud (with Paul G. Nixon and Dan Mercea) Understanding E Government in Europe: Issues and Challenges (with Vassiliki Koutrakou and Paul G. Nixon 2010). He specializes in the impact of media on political agents in the modern era and has written a number of papers around this theme.

Andreas Funk is Lecturer in European Studies, Faculty of Management and Organisation, The Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands.. His field of interests cover studies on social movements and their usage of social media platforms but also political philosophy, in particular problems in moral philosophy. He is currently undertaking research in 'reasonable pluralism and virtue'.

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