Open AccessEvaluation and promise of „e-democracy” in some consensus conferences
Author(s) -
Bernard Reber
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
humanistyka i przyrodoznawstwo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2956-3836
pISSN - 1234-4087
DOI - 10.31648/hip.573
Subject(s) - democracy , information and communications technology , citizen journalism , empowerment , e democracy , field (mathematics) , political science , ambivalence , public relations , sociology , public administration , e government , psychology , law , politics , mathematics , social psychology , pure mathematics
Are Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and the so-called E-democracy a source of citizen empowerment? To answer this questions we adpot different perspectives. We begin with the new techniques or procedures of citizen participation in the field of Participatory Technological Assesment (PTA), and purse with ITC assessed in a USA and a Japanese citizen conference. In a third step ITCs are considered as a new way of participating in consensus conferences (in France and Switzerland). Thanks to them we can compar real time debate and asynchronous on supported by ICT. Finally we scrutinize the hope of democracy in the age of network technology depending on the ambivalence of any techniques (material, procedural, or rational).