Digital Democracy, Net Art and Artistic Production of Sociability
Precisely due to this specificity of the digital era, Bojana Matejić’s chapter on digital democracy, net art, and the artistic production of sociability seems so pertinent for the discussion on participation, culture, and democracy. The focus of her piece is on the dialectical problem of the technology and society of so-called digital democracy in relation to contemporary artistic practices and their socio-political effect as regards the possibilities of the realisation of the aspirations of direct democracy. In her view, digital democracy rests upon the issue of how the internet might be used in procedures for the improvement of democratisation and citizen participation. Most of the exponents of the ideals of digital democracy advocate the thesis that new information technologies will transform the nature of the political activity...
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2018
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Key words: institutional power, digital democracy, social communication, culturalism and voluntarism