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Digital democracy
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Abstract
For contemporary societies, digital democracy provides a key concept that denotes, in our understanding, the relationship between collective self-government and mediating digital infrastructures. New forms of digital engagement that go hand in hand with organisational reforms are re-intermediating e... view more
For contemporary societies, digital democracy provides a key concept that denotes, in our understanding, the relationship between collective self-government and mediating digital infrastructures. New forms of digital engagement that go hand in hand with organisational reforms are re-intermediating established democratic settings in open-ended ways that defy linear narratives of demise or renewal. As a first approach, we trace the history of digital democracy against the background of its specific media constellations, describing continuities and discontinuities in the interplay of technological change and aspirations for democratisation. Thereafter, we critically review theoretical premises concerning the role of technology and how they vary in the way the concept of digital democracy is deployed. In four domains, we show the contingent political conditions under which the relationship between forms of democratic self-determination and its mediating digital infrastructures evolve. One lesson to learn from these four domains is that democratic self-governance is a profoundly mediated project whose institutions and practices are constantly in flux.... view less
Keywords
democracy; digitalization; democratization; technological change; political change; political participation; electronic democracy; representation
Classification
Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science
Interactive, electronic Media
Free Keywords
Public space
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 1-23
Journal
Internet Policy Review, 10 (2021) 4
ISSN
2197-6775
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed