Options
Roberta Fischli
Last Name
Fischli
First name
Roberta
Email
roberta.fischli@unisg.ch
ORCID
Phone
+41 71 224 3217
Now showing
1 - 10 of 16
-
PublicationEmpowering Digital Democracy( 2024)James MuldoonThis article examines the role of digital technology in enabling and enhancing democratic practices and forms of governance. It contributes to emerging debates on democratic innovations by proposing a novel theoretical account of decentralized participatory democracy. To develop our account, we draw on the experience of two EU-funded projects, D-CENT and DECODE, which produced innovative citizen participation platforms and digital public infrastructure. Bringing democratic theory in conversation with critical data studies and the new municipalism movement, we theorize how these projects advanced three political aims: organizing political communities to build collective power, empowering citizens through direct participation in decision-making, and transforming political institutions. The article then analyzes the strengths and limitations of these projects to draw lessons for policy makers and practitioners for future digital democratic experiments.Type: journal articleJournal: Perspectives on Politics
-
PublicationCitizens' Freedom Invaded: Domination in the Data EconomyToday, an increasing part of our daily activities are digitally mediated. Most of them run on a digital infrastructure owned by a small number of actors, who are largely able to determine the conditions for their services, as well as how our data are subsequently used. What results is a growing gap between those who provide data about themselves, and those who can extract meaning from them. This divide is also characterized by a power asymmetry: our access to options is increasingly controlled by those in possession of the relevant resources, technologies and expertise. In this article, I argue that neo-republican theory is uniquely positioned to reveal power asymmetries in the data economy. Drawing on freedom as non-domination, I identify two areas in which we currently experience domination: the constitution of our option sets, as well as our actual exercise of free choice. Especially the former warrants atten- tion: provided corporate actors possess enough data points about us, they are able to exercise a form of domination that precedes interference. Neo-republican theory there- fore helps us to identify instances of domination that a narrow focus on interference might miss. Subsequently, I discuss a range of potential remedies to the status quo and how they correspond with neo-republican theory.Type: journal articleJournal: History of Political ThoughtVolume: 43Issue: 5
-
PublicationDigital Freedom: Opening Up the DebateThis paper contributes to the normative analysis of digital technologies and data-driven practices by broadening the analytical perspective on freedom. Many contemporary discussions of the digital context tend to operate with a relatively narrow conception of freedom, which centers on the absence of interference. While this approach is in line with liberalism’s on-going paradigmatic standing in much of the Western world, we argue that digital theorists have much to gain from opening their discussions to social and positive conceptions of freedom. Drawing on the work of Axel Honneth and John Christman, we show how such a change in perspective gives rise to new considerations for freedom in the digital context, such as collective self-determination, capabilities, and mutual recognition. Building on these ideas, we sketch three demands that follow from such an inclusive conception of freedom: empowering people via new forms of political participation, increasing diversity and collective awareness in the digital industry, as well as using progressive political regulation to unleash digital technology’s social potential.Type: journal articleJournal: Morals & MachinesVolume: 2Issue: 1
-
Publication
-
PublicationType: conference paper
-
PublicationType: book section
-
PublicationType: forthcomingJournal: European Journal of Political Theory
-
PublicationDeborah Raji: Humane Algorithmen( 2022-01-04)Type: newspaper articleJournal: Republik
-
PublicationType: newspaper articleJournal: Republik
-
PublicationType: newspaper articleJournal: ada magazine