Our future in space: The physical and virtual opening-up of parliaments to publics

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Prior, Alex and Sivashankar, Maanasa (2023) Our future in space: The physical and virtual opening-up of parliaments to publics. Journal of Legislative Studies, 29 (3). pp. 463-481. ISSN 1357-2334

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Abstract

Parliaments are physical symbols of nationhood and democracy. Public access to these spaces is often strictly regulated, yet it remains highly influential to public experiences of parliament (and their engagement with it). Drawing on data collected for the Inter-Parliamentary Union’s 2022 Global Parliamentary Report, this article discusses ways in which parliamentary ‘space’ can be utilised to encourage public engagement. This encompasses the effective use of physical space, virtual reality and augmented reality for the purpose of public engagement. In doing so, we show the most important and effective strategy for (re)using, and opening up, parliamentary spaces: the complementary use of physical and virtual methods in not only bringing publics to parliament, but also bringing parliament to publics.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	augmented reality,parliaments,public engagement,public space,virtual reality,political science and international relations,law ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3320
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy and Area Studies
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	10 Jan 2025 01:01
Last Modified:	28 Jan 2025 23:47
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/98150
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