POLITICAL PARTICIPATION 2.0: YOUNG CITIZENS IN THE VIRTUAL AGORA BETWEEN TRASPARENCY AND REPRESENTATION
POLITICAL PARTICIPATION 2.0: YOUNG CITIZENS IN THE VIRTUAL AGORA BETWEEN TRASPARENCY AND REPRESENTATION

Summary/Abstract: The integration of social media in contemporary social dynamics is growing more and more, while constant change is the characteristic of the new paradigms they provide for the analysis of our time. Starting from this point, this paper aims at focusing on the contradictions of the forms of youth participation that use such virtual places as their interface. In particular, two topics will be discussed: the first will be how some specific features of the national background influence the forms of web-based politics; the other will be how the model of “transparency at all costs” could instead promote forms of political “representation” not too unlike those characterizing top-down political communication.

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