TY  - CONF
A1  - Greppi, Andrea
T1  - Ignorance and political representation in the net : on public Infosphere and the Spanish 'indignants' movement
T2  - 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology Frankfurt am Main 15–20 August 2011 ; Paper Series ; 063
N2  - The aim of this paper is to explore the case of the Spanish ‘indignants’ movement of May 2011 as an example of the structural changes occurring in the public sphere after the emergence of a new type of social movement characterized by the widespread use of the ICTs. First I focus on the ideological dimension of discourse of the ‘indignants’ movement, so as to reconstruct the protesters’ self-image. They thought that ICTs were playing a prominent role in a wider trend towards a regeneration of democracy, but they were rather misguided because they lack an accurate description of what really happened. In the second part of this paper I will challenge some features of my case study, emphasizing three basic elements of a democratic public sphere. I aim to call into question the idea that a ‘truly’ democratic public may be hosted by the emergent communicative environment.
T3  - 25th IVR World Congress: Law, Science and Technology Frankfurt am Main 15–20 August 2011 ; Paper Series - 063 
KW  - Public Sphere
KW  - Social Movements
KW  - Participation
KW  - Political Information
KW  - Digital Democracy
KW  - E-democracy
KW  - ICTs
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/24921
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-249211
PB  - Goethe-Univ.
CY  - Frankfurt am Main
ER  -