Overview
- State-of-the-art contents
- Interdisciplinary approach
- Discusses potential and dangers of digital democracy
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 11300)
Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)
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Digital democracy is a hot topic nowadays, its relevance growing along with the impact of computational platforms on our(political) life. Communication is the basal fabric on which society is defined, and it appears obvious that the civic organisation and politics itself should take the opportunities the "digital revolution" offers. Institutional inertia, nevertheless, causes large delays in updating and adapting. Therefore, the balance between participation and delegated representation is now facing a crisis. A thorough understanding of the factors involved in participation is a first step towards providing solutions. Using the Internet to fill the gap and build a digital democracy provides an opportunity, along with several risks that need to be carefully analysed. It needs to be implemented using a fully inter- and trans-disciplinary perspective.
The six contributions included in this State-of-the Art Survey present research in the field of social sciences as well as mathematics and computer science and aim at contributing to a better understanding of the potential and dangers of digital democracy, helping readers go beyond the misunderstandings, the misconceptions,and the conceptual and practical abuses that the very notion of democracy is undergoing during this age of technological revolution and social turmoils.
The six contributions included in this State-of-the Art Survey present research in the field of social sciences as well as mathematics and computer science and aim at contributing to a better understanding of the potential and dangers of digital democracy, helping readers go beyond the misunderstandings, the misconceptions,and the conceptual and practical abuses that the very notion of democracy is undergoing during this age of technological revolution and social turmoils.
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Future of Digital Democracy
Book Subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Editors: Pierluigi Contucci, Andrea Omicini, Danilo Pianini, Alina Sîrbu
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05333-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-05332-1Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-05333-8Published: 17 December 2018
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 101
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Computers and Society, Artificial Intelligence