UID:
almahu_9950000228302882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxv, 198 pages)
ISBN:
9781394180417
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1394180411
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139418042X
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9781394180431
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1394180438
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9781394180424
Serie:
Antipode book series
Inhalt:
This book focuses on three digital democracy platforms (DDPs): Decide Madrid, vTaiwan and OmaStadi. It "carefully interrogates the increasingly fraught intersections of the digital, the city, and democracy. It is a book that will endure, bristling as it is with thoughtful reflection and insight on the democratic challenges that unfold amidst the ordinary, troubled and generative digital worlds of cities as different as Madrid, Taipei and Helsinki. Amidst the work of policymakers, activists, and engineers, what emerges is a hopeful exploration of what 'digital democracy platforms' might enable." --Professor Colin McFarlane, Durham University "This vital book moves beyond a universal analysis of the effects of social media platforms on liberal democracy. Through an in-depth examination of civic platforms in Finland, Spain and Taiwan, Tseng provides a compelling and nuanced empirical and theoretical analysis of the contingent relationship between platforms, place and democracy." --Professor Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University Reimagining Democracy in the Digital and Urban Age How can democracy adapt and thrive in a world reshaped by artificial intelligence and digital platforms? In Liquid Democracy, author Yu-Shan Tseng offers a bold new framework for understanding democracy as a dynamic, fluid process. Challenging the idea that AI and digital tools are inherently anti-democratic, this innovative volume bridges theory and practice to investigate various "liquid conditions," a novel concept capturing how political action flows and transforms like water within the intersections of urban spaces and digital technologies. Through an in-depth comparative study of three groundbreaking digital democracy platforms--Decide Madrid in Madrid, OmaStadi in Helsinki, and vTaiwan in Taipei--Tseng explores how digital platforms can foster participatory governance, pluralism, and alternative democratic futures. In-depth chapters critically examine the interactions between humans, algorithms, and urban systems, revealing how digital tools reconfigure the boundaries of political participation, decision-making, and collective action. Throughout the text, Tseng offers fresh insights into how democracy emerges under contingent conditions shaped by technology and geography. Drawing from years of ethnographic fieldwork, Liquid Democracy is essential reading for master's and PhD students in geography, political science, and urban studies, as well as scholars, practitioners, and policymakers interested in digital governance, smart cities, civic technology, and algorithmic politics.
Anmerkung:
List of Figures and Table -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Approaching Democracy from the Field -- 1 Democracy in the Age of Platformisation -- 1.1 Reproblematising Democracy in the Age of Platformisation -- 1.2 Meeting 'Differences' of Democracy at the Intersections -- 1.3 Democratisations, Occupy Movements and Global Circulations -- 1.4 A Liquid Comparison and Epistemology -- 1.5 Liquid Conditions for Democracy in Digital and Urban Worlds -- 2 Dissolving Democratic Theories into Larger Worlds -- 2.1 Correct Ontologies, Normative Claims and Universal Assumptions in Democratic Theories -- 2.1.1 Aggregative democracy -- 2.1.2 Participatory democracy and consensus democracy -- 2.1.3 Radical democracy -- 2.1.4 Digital democracies the slippery tyranny of normative principles -- 2.1.5 Feminist and post-colonial democracy -- 2.1.6 Post-structuralist democracy Jacques Derrida -- 2.2 Democracy In-The- World Ontologies: More- Than-Human, Liquidity and Multiplicity -- 2.2.1 Democracy as convergent movements: between different powers and times -- 2.2.2 Plural democracy keeping political boundaries fluid -- 2.2.3 Everyday/ordinary democracy -- 2.3 From a Correct Democracy to Democratic Multiplicity -- 3 DDPs at Comparative Conjunctures -- 3.1 Movements, Calculus and Futures -- 3.2 Convergent Democratic Movements Underpinning the DDPs -- 3.2.1 Madrid: between political consensus and (dis) alliance for democracy -- 3.2.2 Taipei: political consensus for democratisation and neoliberal development -- 3.2.3 Helsinki: political consensus around Finlandisation and neoliberal urbanisation -- 3.3 On Risk Calculus and Democratic Futures -- 3.3.1 vTaiwan: securing an undivided democratic future against geopolitical tension -- 3.3.2 Decide Madrid and OmaStadi: global neoliberal futures for the simple majority -- 3.3.3 Uncounted democratic futures in urban and digital worlds -- 3.4 Orienting Towards Different Democratic Futures -- 4 Frictions for Care Democracy -- 4.1 Gamification as a New Digital Solution and Environment for Democracy -- 4.2 Friction as Contestations -- 4.2.1 Decide Madrid -- 4.2.2 OmaStadi -- 4.2.3 vTaiwan -- 4.3 Tactical Friction: Power, Knowledge Inequalities and Care -- 4.3.1 Decide Madrid -- 4.3.2 OmaStadi -- 4.3.3 vTaiwan -- 4.4 Frictions as Ordinary Rhythms for Care Democracy -- 5 Algorithmic Reordering for Plural Democracy -- 5.1 Reordering as a Liquid Condition for Plural Democracy -- 5.2 vTaiwan: Reordering Plural Opinions for Uber Legalisation -- 5.2.1 Plural Opinions from Algorithmic Reordering -- 5.2.2 Human in the Making of the Binary Propositions -- 5.3 Decide Madrid: Reordering Issues into Urban Services and Infrastructures -- 5.3.1 (Re)ordering majoritarian urban issues -- 5.3.2 En Route to Institutional Implementation -- 5.4 Reordering in Decision-Making for Liquid Plural Democracy -- 6 Urban Thrown-Togetherness for Ordinary Democracy -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Challenging Neoliberal Trends in Helsinki -- 6.2.1 A social experiment for the everyday struggles of drug abusers -- 6.2.2 When welfare services fade away the elderly's struggles over budget-cutting -- 6.2.3 Fighting against time to save an urban cultural space from decay and privatisation -- 6.3 Decide Madrid: Collective Presence for Alternative Urban Futures -- 6.3.1 A la Nave Daoiz y Velarde -- 6.3.2 Weaving layers of knowledge into alternative urban futures the Legazpi market -- 6.4 Thrown-togetherness in Liquid Temporal-Geographies for Ordinary Democracy -- 7 Moving on with Liquid Democracy -- 7.1 Seeing Democracy Like Water -- 7.2 Becoming with the Liquid Worlds for Policymaking -- 7.3 Where to Look for Democratic Futures -- References -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9781394180400
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9781394180394
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1002/9781394180417
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781394180417
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