Lecture 3. Digitalisation and Political Regimes

Question 1

How could digitalisation strengthen democracy?

Answer 1

acts of opening: collaboration, mobilization, sharing, evasion, intervention, and counter-hegemonic data production that illustrate considerable creativity, inventiveness, and autonomy in the formation of digital citizens yet to come

Question 2

Digitalisation & Democracy: How does it challenge (1) democratic values; (2) democratic institutions; (3) democratic practices?

Answer 2

acts of closing: datafication, tracking, trolling, stalking, misinformation, deception, and identification)

Question 3

Digitalisation & Authoritarianism: What were the premises to believe that the Internet will be a ‘liberation technology’? Make a list

Answer 3

legal ownership rights and a social and political culture that understands these rights as digital citizenship rights

Question 4

Digitalisation & Authoritarianism: What are the key mechanisms at play in digital authoritarianism?

Answer 4

surveillance and monitoring of people’s actions online

Question 5

What is citizenship?

Answer 5

relation between the individual and the state