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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554499103321

Titolo

Digital technology and democratic theory / / edited by Lucy Bernholz, Hélène Landemore and Rob Reich [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago : , : The University of Chicago Press, , 2021

ISBN

0-226-74860-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Chicago scholarship online

Classificazione

AP 14150

Disciplina

320.973

Soggetti

Democracy - Philosophy

Democracy - Technological innovations

Computer networks - Political aspects

Information technology - Political aspects

Digital communications - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere -- 2. Open Democracy and Digital Technologies -- 3. Purpose- Built Digital Associations -- 4. Digital Exclusion: A Politics of Refusal -- 5. Presence of Absence: Exploring the Democratic Signifi cance of Silence -- 6. The Artisan and the Decision Factory: The Organizational Dynamics of Private Speech Governance -- 7. The Democratic Consequences of the New Public Sphere -- 8. Democratic Societal Collaboration in a Whitewater World -- 9. From Philanthropy to Democracy: Rethinking Governance and Funding of High- Quality News in the Digital Age -- 10. Technologizing Democracy or Democratizing Technology? A Layered- Architecture Perspective on Potentials and Challenges

Sommario/riassunto

One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over - and upending - nearly every aspect of life. Work and leisure, family and friendship, community and citizenship have all been modified by now-ubiquitous digital tools and platforms. This title looks closely at one significant facet of our rapidly evolving digital lives: how technology is radically changing our lives as citizens and participants in democratic governments. To understand



these transformations, this book brings together contributions by scholars from multiple disciplines to wrestle with the question of how digital technologies shape, reshape, and affect fundamental questions about democracy and democratic theory.