Digital Technology and Democratic Theory
Lucy Bernholz, Héléne Landemore, and Rob Reich
Abstract
This book explores the intersection of digital technology and democratic theory. An interdisciplinary group of scholars convened in several workshops to consider both what democratic theory might bring to the design, development, use, and governance of digital technologies and, in turn, how digital technologies can help us pose again, rethink, and perhaps even solve fundamental problems in democratic theory. The authors examine enduring democratic commitments of equality and inclusion, participation, deliberation, a flourishing public sphere, civic and political trust, rights of expression and ... More
This book explores the intersection of digital technology and democratic theory. An interdisciplinary group of scholars convened in several workshops to consider both what democratic theory might bring to the design, development, use, and governance of digital technologies and, in turn, how digital technologies can help us pose again, rethink, and perhaps even solve fundamental problems in democratic theory. The authors examine enduring democratic commitments of equality and inclusion, participation, deliberation, a flourishing public sphere, civic and political trust, rights of expression and association, and voting through the lens of global digital networks. The chapters provide reflections on participation in and governance of the public square; inquiries about the important roles of silence, exclusion, and community control; insights about new associational forms in civil society and journalism; and provocations about the possibilities of open democracy, new commitments to learning, and potential forms of political representation. Taken as a whole the volume provides a research agenda for coming generations of scholarship within and across the social sciences, humanities, and technology.
Keywords:
democracy,
technology,
digital,
participation,
public square,
associations,
representation,
journalism,
collective intelligence,
deliberation
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2021 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780226748436 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: September 2021 |
DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226748603.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Lucy Bernholz, editor
Stanford University
Héléne Landemore, editor
Yale University
Rob Reich, editor
Stanford University
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