Democratizing Technology
Hierarchy and Innovation in Public Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6356882 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric Schickler (0000-0002-2781-2987, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 175-199 |
| Publication date | 1994-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Polity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3497 • E-ISSN: 1744-1684 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3235172 |
| OpenAlex | W2333105547 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Scholarly and popular debates surrounding new technologies have focused on two alternatives: that they will create a genuinely participatory democracy or make democratic politics irrelevant through the dominance of technological imperatives. This paper advances an alternative view, based on considering democracy as an ethos of opposition, that democrats should attend to the ways in which new technologies should be designed and delivered to permit challenging existing hierarchies and disrupt existing constellations of power
Citizen journalism · Democracy · Dominance (genetics · Ethos · Hierarchy · Opposition (politics · Participatory democracy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Technocracy · Digital Education and Society · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Public Administration
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| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1997 - 2022 (26) |
| Highly cited | No |