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Panel 1Towards the de-Institutionalisation
of e-democratic governance?
Brian D. Loader
Bologna - 8 aprile 2009
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Web 2.0 & de-institutionalization?
New media often brings huge optimism about its democratising potential.
Web 2.0 - user-generated content, mass collaboration & sharing of intellectual property - is latest example.
I want to suggest that new media may facilitate a trend of de-institutionalization but that it does not determine a democratic future.
Rather new media techonologies should themselves be seen a sphere of contestation between competing conceptions of democracy.
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What kind of democracy are we talking about?
• Discussions about how ICTs can/cannot democratise our political systems are too often conducted in a vacuum -institutional change is influenced from without!
• Different models produce different objectives/evaluations
• Two competing perspectives -1. Participatory models2. Liberal models
Latter, as neo-liberalism, has dominated the shape of e-democracy
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Mediated Democracy?
•State - e-government- re-connecting citizens- surveillance state
•Civil Society- re-energizing democracy?- Community Politics Online?- Social movements online- Web 2.0 a new public sphere?
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E-Government?
- Neo-liberal response to major environmental challenges to post-war Liberal-Welfare-States
-Re-engineering Government? Networked Informational organisations
-Privatisation of public info systems
-de-professionalisation
- Welfare Direct - remote control of populations
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Re-Connecting Citizens?
Or customer market research?
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Surveillance State?
•Joined-up government - e-government efficiencies
•National databases
•National ID cards
•CCTV
•Politics of fear – security, terrorism, cybercrime, cyberwar
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Civil Society:re-energizing democracy?
•Political Parties Online•Campaigning•E-voting•But…ease of voting does not necessarily lead to active engagement, commitment, democractic learning.
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Community Politics Online?
Community Informatics/Community Networking local democratic politics•Social Sorting•Splintering Urbanisation and premium spaces
•Fragmentation of civil society preventing deliberation
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Social Movements Online?
For many the most important means to develop participatorydemocracy
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Web 2.0 a new public sphere?
The lastest battleground for contested notions of democracy
Participatory e-democracy?- User generated content - citizen journalists- Mass Collaboration- Sharing culture & democratic practices emerging?Liberal democracy- dataveillance - state captures user-generated content?- Little brothers watching?- Social movements will have to compete harder in media-
saturated world.