Digital democracy

Berg, Sebastian; Hofmann, Jeanette

Digital democracy

dc.contributor.author	Berg, Sebastian
dc.contributor.author	Hofmann, Jeanette
dc.date.accessioned	2023-08-30T14:18:50Z
dc.date.available	2023-08-30T14:18:50Z
dc.date.issued	2021
dc.description.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 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 selfdetermination 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.
dc.identifier.citation	Berg, S., & Hofmann, J. (2021). Digital democracy. Internet Policy Review, 10(4). https://doi.org/10.14763/2021.4.1612
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.14763/2021.4.1612
dc.identifier.eissn	2197-6775
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/205
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.rights	open access
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
dc.title	Digital democracy
dc.type	Article
dc.type.status	publishedVersion
dcmi.type	Text
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue	4
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue	4
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle	Internet Policy Review
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume	10
local.researchgroup	Demokratie und Digitalisierung
local.researchgroup	Quantifizierung und gesellschaftliche Regulierung
local.researchtopic	Demokratie – Partizipation – Öffentlichkeit
local.researchtopic	Verantwortung – Vertrauen – Governance