{"id":17490,"date":"2016-10-13T11:14:50","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T15:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=17490"},"modified":"2016-10-13T11:14:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-13T15:14:50","slug":"democracy-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=17490","title":{"rendered":"democracy in the digital age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New chapter: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/28941998\/_Democracy_in_the_Digital_Age_The_Civic_Media_Reader_edited_by_Eric_Gordon_and_Paul_Mihailidis_Cambridge_MA_MIT_Press_2016_pp._29-47\">Democracy in the Digital Age<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Civic Media Reader<\/em>, edited by Eric Gordon and Paul Mihailidis (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016), pp. 29-47<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:\u00a0Digital media change rapidly, but democracy presents perennial challenges. It is not in people&#8217;s individual interests to participate, yet\u00a0we need them to participate ethically and wisely. It&#8217;s easier for more advantaged people to participate. And the ethical values that guide personal relationships tend to vanish in large-scale interactions. The digital era brings special versions of those challenges: choice has been massively disaggregated, sovereignty is ambiguous, states can collect intrusive information about\u00a0people, and states no longer need much support from their own citizens. I argue that these underlying conditions make democracy difficult in the digital age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New chapter: \u201cDemocracy in the Digital Age,\u201d The Civic Media Reader, edited by Eric Gordon and Paul Mihailidis (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016), pp. 29-47 Abstract:\u00a0Digital media change rapidly, but democracy presents perennial challenges. It is not in people&#8217;s individual interests to participate, yet\u00a0we need them to participate ethically and wisely. It&#8217;s easier for more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic-theory","category-internet-and-public-issues"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17490"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17522,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490\/revisions\/17522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}