Perverting Activism: Cyberactivism and Its Potential Failures In Enhancing Democratic Institutions

Tommaso Bertolotti, Emanuele Bardone and Lorenzo Magnani
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Tommaso Bertolotti: University of Pavia, Italy
Emanuele Bardone: University of Pavia, Italy
Lorenzo Magnani: University of Pavia, Italy

International Journal of Technoethics (IJT), 2011, vol. 2, issue 2, 14-29

Abstract: This paper analyzes the impact of new technologies on a range of practices related to activism. The first section shows how the functioning of democratic institutions can be impaired by scarce political accountability connected with the emergence of moral hazard; the second section displays how cyberactivism can improve the transparency of political dynamics; in the last section the authors turn specifically to cyberactivism and isolate its flaws and some of the most pernicious and self-defeating effects.

Date: 2011
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