Audience Democracy 2.0: Re-Depersonalizing Politics in the Digital Age
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11210%2F24%3A10477515" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11210/24:10477515 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=R00CxYnpfC" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=R00CxYnpfC</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humaff-2023-0039" target="_blank" >10.1515/humaff-2023-0039</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Audience Democracy 2.0: Re-Depersonalizing Politics in the Digital Age
Original language description
This paper aims to explore the changes that representative democracy is experiencing as a result of the transformation of communication channels. In particular, it focuses on non-electoral representation in the form of movements that emerged throughout the 2010s and that were defined by a strong social media presence (e.g. Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, Yellow Vests). Despite not attempting to gain political power via elections, these movements, through online and offline activities, nonetheless managed to shape the realm of politics. The paper thus analyzes the movements' inner representative dynamics and the ways they reshape representative democracy. It engages with a critical reading of Hanna Pitkin's concept of symbolic representation and draws on Michael Saward's framework of the representative claim to reevaluate Bernard Manin's notion of "audience" democracy as today's form of representative government. The argument is that, as digital development provides citizens with less demanding modes of political participation and platforms of representative claim-making, it enhances the sphere of opinion formation and the role of non-electoral representation. This sphere entails a tendency towards a re-depersonalization of politics, thus leading towards the transformation of "audience" democracy.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF19_073%2F0016935" target="_blank" >EF19_073/0016935: Grant schemes at Charles University</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Human Affairs
ISSN
1210-3055
e-ISSN
1337-401X
Volume of the periodical
34
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
SK - SLOVAKIA
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
136-150
UT code for WoS article
001086312400001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85175487193