Unrealized Digital Democracy - A Critical Analysis of Power in the Digital Age

The author makes the cause for an analysis of digital politics grounded in both materialism and Bruno Latour's Actor-Network-Theory. Such an analysis identifies asymmetries of digital power in the contemporary internet, explaining some of the more concerning, undemocratic trends of recent years including politically-motivated violence.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter One: A Critical Digital History
Chapter Two: Compressed Political Temporalities in a Feudalized Internet as a Threat to Peaceful Democratic Participation
Chapter Three: Thinking Politically Through Digital Task Saturation
Conclusion: The Future of The Internet: New Actors and an Invitation for Empowering Activism

About the author

By Garrett Pierman

Summary

The author makes the cause for an analysis of digital politics grounded in both materialism and Bruno Latour’s Actor-Network-Theory. Such an analysis identifies asymmetries of digital power in the contemporary internet, explaining some of the more concerning, undemocratic trends of recent years including politically-motivated violence.

Product details

• Authors: Garrett Pierman
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2023
• EAN: 9781666935578
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-557-8
• No. of pages: 96
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, International Relations, Political structures: democracy, Impact of science & technology on society