The Digital Constellation

Berg, Sebastian; Rakowski, Niklas; Thiel, Thorsten

The Digital Constellation

dc.contributor.author	Berg, Sebastian
dc.contributor.author	Rakowski, Niklas
dc.contributor.author	Thiel, Thorsten
dc.date.accessioned	2023-08-04T09:35:28Z
dc.date.available	2023-08-04T09:35:28Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.description.abstract	The emergence of the digital society has become one of the most pressing research topics in social science. So far, political science has been at the margins of the debate because it has been restricted by a rather narrow focus on networked communications. The paper attempts to change this by presenting a more encompassing way to address digitalisation from within political science. After briefly criticising the development of the research in political science the paper reconstructs at length some of the most popular conceptualisations in neighbouring disciplines. While we highlight the commonalities and strengths of those approaches in theorising digitalisation, we criticise their rather derivative understanding of democratic practices and the political as such. We go on to propose a modified understanding - which we term the "digital constellation" - that looks at the changing shape of democracy by developing a much more nuanced understanding of the interplay between societies and technologies. Finally, we illustrate the argument in an exemplary analysis of the changes occurring in political representation in the context of digitalisation.	en
dc.description.sponsorship	This work has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany (BMBF) (grant no.: 16DII111, 16DII112, 16DII113, 16DII114, 16DII115, 16DII116, 16DII117 – „Deutsches Internet-Institut“)
dc.identifier.citation	Berg, S., Rakowski, N., & Thiel, Thorsten. (2020). The Digital Constellation (Weizenbaum Series, 14). Weizenbaum Institute. https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WS/14
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.ws/14
dc.identifier.eissn	2748-5587
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/9
dc.identifier.zdb	3064032-5
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Weizenbaum Institute
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Weizenbaum Series
dc.rights	open access
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Political science	en
dc.subject	Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Political Science	en
dc.subject	democracy	en
dc.subject	digitalization	en
dc.subject	political theory	en
dc.subject	representation	en
dc.subject	research topic	en
dc.subject	political science	en
dc.subject	Politikwissenschaft	de
dc.subject	Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Politikwissenschaft	de
dc.subject	Repräsentation	de
dc.subject	Demokratie	de
dc.subject	Digitalisierung	de
dc.subject	politische Theorie	de
dc.subject	Politikwissenschaft	de
dc.subject	Forschungsgegenstand	de
dc.subject.ddc	320 Politikwissenschaft
dc.title	The Digital Constellation
dc.type	WorkingPaper
dc.type.status	publishedVersion
dcmi.type	Text
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace	Berlin
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume	14
local.researchgroup	Demokratie und Digitalisierung
local.researchtopic	Demokratie – Partizipation – Öffentlichkeit