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Upgrade Democracy 2.0?
Upgrade Democracy 2.0?

Participation, Online Decision-Making, and Problem Solving on the Online Platforms of Late-Modern Media Environment

Author(s): Kornél Myat
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Communication studies, Sociology
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: late-modern media environment; online participation; community decision-making and problem solving;

Summary/Abstract: One of the key issues related to media research is how technological changes impact actual social processes. The web-based social media of postmodern media environment provide new public platforms for media users who tend to become more and more conscious users and active producers and distributors of media content. However, without developing the culture of offl ine social cooperation, are online platforms suffi cient in themselves for making representative democracy more participative? In my thesis, I will examine the possibility of participation on the platforms of social media that emerged during the spring of 2015 in the case of DemocracyOS clone EVoks supporting the expression of opinion on social media networks and in the case of Populus online platform specialized in social problem solving.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 33-48
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English