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Perverting Activism: Cyberactivism and Its Potential Failures In Enhancing Democratic Institutions

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  • Tommaso Bertolotti

    (University of Pavia, Italy)

  • Emanuele Bardone

    (University of Pavia, Italy)

  • Lorenzo Magnani

    (University of Pavia, Italy)

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This paper analyzes the impact of new technologies on a range of practices related to activism. The first section shows how the functioning of democratic institutions can be impaired by scarce political accountability connected with the emergence of moral hazard; the second section displays how cyberactivism can improve the transparency of political dynamics; in the last section the authors turn specifically to cyberactivism and isolate its flaws and some of the most pernicious and self-defeating effects.

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  • Tommaso Bertolotti & Emanuele Bardone & Lorenzo Magnani, 2011. "Perverting Activism: Cyberactivism and Its Potential Failures In Enhancing Democratic Institutions," International Journal of Technoethics (IJT), IGI Global, vol. 2(2), pages 14-29, April.
  • Handle: RePEc:igg:jt0000:v:2:y:2011:i:2:p:14-29
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