The Network Society: rights, policies and the exercise of democracy

The Network Society:

rights, policies and

the exercise of democracy

Ismael Peña-López

Pamplona, 31 may 2011

I Encuentro CIDER

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Peña-López, Ismael. (2011) The Network Society: rights, policies and the exercise of democracy

I Encuentro CIDER, Pamplona, 31 mayo 2011.

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Production

Democracy

Industrial Production

Industrial Democracy

( )

Information

Accountability

Deliberation

Argumentation

Cost optimization through intermediation

Parties

Governments

Organized civil society

The Democratic Process

Negotiation

Opinion shaping

Voting Expliciting preferences

EScarcity

+

Transaction

Costs

+

Intermediation

=

Efficiency?

Efficacy?

Scarcity

+

Transaction

Costs

+

Intermediation

=

Efficiency

Efficacy

Digital Society

Scarcity

+

Transaction

Costs

+

Intermediation

=

Efficiency???

Efficacy???

Politics happen in a closed place

Participation can happen anywhere, in the open

Politics take place at a scheduled time

Participation can take place whenever

Someone preset does politics

You can participate with everyone, with whom you choose

Someone proposes something programmed

Nothing lasts forever, you have to debate about what to debate

Changing the programme

is expensive

Not changing the programme ends up being expensive

Collaboration is expensive

Competition and reinventing the wheel ends up being expensive

Content and container are inseparable

Content is volatile,

the container is you

Benefits of

Digital & 2.0

Democracy

State of the question?

New institutional channels

Politics 2.0

Cyberpolitics, cyberactivism

Grassroots engagement

Digital Identity

First-person voice

Participation, engagement

Community building

Deliberative democracy

Conversation

Agenda setting

Local politics

All topics, long tail

Collective wisdom

Independent information

Multiple sources of information

Monitorization

Visual information

Immediacy

Virality

Crossmedia

Transparency

Accountability

Traceability

Social control, distributed power

Open government

Other cons of 2.0

Digital Adoption

Digital Competences

Digital Divide

( )

Politics 101

Limitations of

- participative democracy

- deliberative democracy

- direct democracy

Limitations of open lists

Limitations of "total" transparency

Filtering, censorship

Cybercontrol, surveillance

"Daily me"

Echo chambers

e-Lobbying

e-Propaganda

60% used the Internet in the last 3 months

36% has never used the Internet

39% used the Internet daily (or almost) in the last 3 months

29% searched government information in the last 3 months

6% of all sales were made through the Internet

40% would not feel e-competent if had to change job

28% feels comfortable using office software

25% feels comfortable using the Internet

8% makes an advanced use of the Internet

case: Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login (#1 Google)

case: what is a web browser (8%)

Source: Eurostat, 2010, for Spain

...or digital citizens?

Digitally excluded...

Citizen

=

freedom

freedom over the system

Governance

+

Empowerment

freedom within the system

How is freedom / power

distributed in the system?