{"id":5769,"date":"2014-06-21T14:43:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T14:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labcom.ubi.pt\/?p=5769"},"modified":"2022-10-07T15:09:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T15:09:11","slug":"political-participation-and-web-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labcom.ubi.pt\/en\/political-participation-and-web-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND WEB 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despite it being a debated issue in recent decades, there is in fact no consensus regarding the potentialities of the Internet for the strengthening of citizens\u2019 political participation and \u2013 by extension \u2013 of democracy itself. Nonetheless, this \u201cnew medium\u201d, and, in particular, its Web 2.0 version has become the cornerstone of communication strategies for both political parties and their candidates.<\/p>\n

Several questions emerge from the debate about the impact of the internet on political participation. First of all, the very concept of political participa- tion. Despite its importance in the theory of democracy, this concept is not always easy to define with rigor particularly when it comes to the form and boundaries of such participation. Actually, the ultimate issue is whether we are currently witnessing a \u201ccrisis of participation\u201d or quite the contrary, the rise of alternative forms thereof. Secondly, the debate about the so-called \u201ccrisis of democracy\u201d is also central when thinking about political participa- tion in our times. Democratic societies are experiencing a democratic deficit, to a large extend a crisis of confidence in traditional political parties, by which citizens feel misrepresented and hence alienated from righteous participation in their political destiny.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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