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

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

Tommaso Bertolotti, Emanuele Bardone, Lorenzo Magnani
Copyright: © 2011 |Volume: 2 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 16
ISSN: 1947-3451|EISSN: 1947-346X|EISBN13: 9781613509425|DOI: 10.4018/jte.2011040102
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Bertolotti, Tommaso, et al. "Perverting Activism: Cyberactivism and Its Potential Failures In Enhancing Democratic Institutions." IJT vol.2, no.2 2011: pp.14-29. http://doi.org/10.4018/jte.2011040102

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Bertolotti, T., Bardone, E., & Magnani, L. (2011). Perverting Activism: Cyberactivism and Its Potential Failures In Enhancing Democratic Institutions. International Journal of Technoethics (IJT), 2(2), 14-29. http://doi.org/10.4018/jte.2011040102

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Bertolotti, Tommaso, Emanuele Bardone, and Lorenzo Magnani. "Perverting Activism: Cyberactivism and Its Potential Failures In Enhancing Democratic Institutions," International Journal of Technoethics (IJT) 2, no.2: 14-29. http://doi.org/10.4018/jte.2011040102

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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.

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