Digital Technology and Democratic Theory

Essays examining how digital platforms, AI, and data reshape democratic governance, participation, and political power.

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the very same forces that connect individuals the world over and allow them to produce and share information also lead to a superabundance of content, and its global dissemination, which threatens the health of a functional public sphere and perhaps democracy itself. — location: 89 ^ref-17748


a tiny number of companies is responsible for algorithmically constituting our informational ecosystem. — location: 99 ^ref-43509


democratic theorists have been silent because familiar conceptual frameworks for thinking about politics and, specifically, democratic governance are maladapted to the task of analyzing the civic and political dimensions of the internet and the dominant tech companies. — location: 136 ^ref-37697


dominant platforms became the private, for-profit owners of functionally public spaces, with historically unprecedented curatorial and gatekeeping power. — location: 650 ^ref-47503



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