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

Authors:
Lorenzo Magnani;Emanuele Bardone;Tommaso Bertolotti
Affiliations:
University of Pavia, Italy;University of Pavia, Italy;University of Pavia, Italy
Venue:
International Journal of Technoethics
Year:
2011

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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.