Dimensões da ciberdemocracia: ciberdemocracia: conceitos e experiências fundamentais

Abstract

This dissertation aims to examine some dimensions of the interface between democracy and new technologies of communication and information, its potentialities, problems and perspectives. To admit that new technologies of communication revolutionize democracy is not only to adhere to a triunfalist perspective. It implies, also, in accepting that democracy have some lacks that compromise its superiority while government form. On the other hand, to deny the potential of these technologies for concerting different ways of political manifestation, inclusively from the civil sphere, is not a satisfactory view. One examine five class of manifest phenomena in the thelematics nets with implications in the political field: Electronic Government, Electronic Vote, Digital Activism, Parties and Campaign in a Digital Age and Virtual Public Sphere. The central hypothesis comprises that democracy has in the Internet a complementar channel to foster the participation of citizens and to conform spaces of debate and information, besides indicating changes in the relations between institutional agents (government and partisan clubs) and civil sphere.