Why Digitisation Can Cause Anarchization: Micro-identities on the Internet as a Factor Stimulating the Process
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Dlaczego digitalizacja może stać się przyczyną anarchizacji Mikro-tożsamości w sieci internetowej jako czynnik stymulujący proces anarchizacji państwa
Why Digitisation Can Cause Anarchization: Micro-identities on the Internet as a Factor Stimulating the Process of State Anarchisation

Author(s): Piotr Kłodkowski, Małgorzata Kossowska, Anna Siewierska-Chmaj
Subject(s): Media studies, Politics and society, Social psychology and group interaction, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Sociology of Politics
Published by: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
Keywords: anarchisation; micro identities; polarisation; internet; digitisation;

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the phenomenon of socio-political anarchization related to the dynamic process of digitisation, primarily connected with the functioning of social media. All issues are analysed from several perspectives, including the research areas of political science, sociology and psychology. According to the authors, many mechanisms of the internet described in this article not only contribute to the growing social and political polarisation, but may also lead to a recession of liberal democracy and the most important state institutions. The authors argue that the specific way in which digital media function and the available options of their application may strengthen gradual anarchization processes, ultimately leading to the creation of various types of social entities. These entities are defined by particular micro-identities and are less and less dependent on the state. At the same time, they contribute (or rather can contribute) to the actual atrophy of the existing state structures, as well as the rules and procedures hitherto present in society.

  • Issue Year: 50/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 37-65
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Polish