Networked democracy

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1. Networked democracy CMNS 353
2. Technology And Society
3. What is the “public Sphere”?
4. A place open to all citizens The place where the “public opinion” is formed A place for free association, assembly, expression and publication of opinions The need to be informed
5. In Sparta Pleno iure citizens can participate in the apella idiótes
6. When/where did you feel part of the “public sphere?
7. Is the public sphere really public?
8. The Public Shpere(s) can only exist in an ideal participatory society. According to Habermas, two immanent elements of capitalism would work against the creation of the Public Sphere: 1. Education 2. Capital control or influence over organizations of the public sphere (e.g. media, special interest groups).
9. Technology And Society
10. Create 4 teams
11. 1. Accessibility: Who has access to the site (income, education level, age, gender, ethnicity, origin, etc.)? 2. Content production: Who can produce content? (in other words, which skills/instruments the users need in order to join the conversation?) How visible, relevant and influential is the produced content? Are some point of views overrepresented? Can someone’s opinion be made more visible? If yes, how? 3. Political economic dimension of the medium: Ownership: Is there a democratic ownership of the media organization and resources? Censorship: Is there political and/or economic censorship? 4. Independence: How independent are the sites and discussions from economic and state interests? How inclusive, attentive, sincere, reflexive is the online discussion?
12. Fuchs’ perspective on Twitter: Twitter is not inclusive Long tail distribution. It does not overcome class division: it reflects them (participatory toys for white boys) Social media do not cause social protests. They can at the same time amplify and dampen social critique.
13. Twitter shows the continued importance of Habermas’s argument that the bourgeois public sphere has created, as Marx has already observed, its own limits and thereby its own immanent critique
14. Feenberg’s third way. Audience or users? Labour or raw material? Valorize the unrealized potential of social media, instead of throwing the baby with the bathwater?
15. Public sphere in Colombia
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