Conceptions of digital technology are contingent on particular conceptions of democracy (and vice... more Conceptions of digital technology are contingent on particular conceptions of democracy (and vice versa), in that our perceptions of the "actionable properties" of the former are always already necessarily affected by our preconceptions of the latter. I will theorise this dialectical relationship in terms of logics of digital democratic affordances, which I conceive to be discursively constructed and ultimately contingent. In particular I will analyse how the Study Commission "Internet and Digital Society" (SCIDS) commissioned by the German Bundestag in 2010, understands the affordances of digital technology for German democracy. Rather than to "neutrally" analyse how digital technology impacts German society, I argue that in their policy recommendations the SCIDS implicitly normalises its own normative liberal-representative conception of digital democratic affordances and therefore forestalls much of the democratic potential offered by digital technology.
Founded in 2009 in Berlin, the Liquid Democracy association has been developing an impressive arr... more Founded in 2009 in Berlin, the Liquid Democracy association has been developing an impressive array of open source software tools that support civic and political participation in youth projects, urban planning projects, participatory budgeting, NGOs, political parties, and institutions.
The best known of these tools is Adhocracy, a modular decision-making platform that allows participants to collect ideas, discuss them, and refine them in text propositions that can be further amended. This modular structure has been mostly used in civic participation projects in Berlin, but also in political parties such as the Green Party, the SPD, and institutional contexts such at the German Federal Parliament.
Conceptions of digital technology are contingent on particular conceptions of democracy (and vice... more Conceptions of digital technology are contingent on particular conceptions of democracy (and vice versa), in that our perceptions of the "actionable properties" of the former are always already necessarily affected by our preconceptions of the latter. I will theorise this dialectical relationship in terms of logics of digital democratic affordances, which I conceive to be discursively constructed and ultimately contingent. In particular I will analyse how the Study Commission "Internet and Digital Society" (SCIDS) commissioned by the German Bundestag in 2010, understands the affordances of digital technology for German democracy. Rather than to "neutrally" analyse how digital technology impacts German society, I argue that in their policy recommendations the SCIDS implicitly normalises its own normative liberal-representative conception of digital democratic affordances and therefore forestalls much of the democratic potential offered by digital technology.
Founded in 2009 in Berlin, the Liquid Democracy association has been developing an impressive arr... more Founded in 2009 in Berlin, the Liquid Democracy association has been developing an impressive array of open source software tools that support civic and political participation in youth projects, urban planning projects, participatory budgeting, NGOs, political parties, and institutions.
The best known of these tools is Adhocracy, a modular decision-making platform that allows participants to collect ideas, discuss them, and refine them in text propositions that can be further amended. This modular structure has been mostly used in civic participation projects in Berlin, but also in political parties such as the Green Party, the SPD, and institutional contexts such at the German Federal Parliament.
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The best known of these tools is Adhocracy, a modular decision-making platform that allows participants to collect ideas, discuss them, and refine them in text propositions that can be further amended. This modular structure has been mostly used in civic participation projects in Berlin, but also in political parties such as the Green Party, the SPD, and institutional contexts such at the German Federal Parliament.
The best known of these tools is Adhocracy, a modular decision-making platform that allows participants to collect ideas, discuss them, and refine them in text propositions that can be further amended. This modular structure has been mostly used in civic participation projects in Berlin, but also in political parties such as the Green Party, the SPD, and institutional contexts such at the German Federal Parliament.