Social Networks and Democracy: Problems and Dilemmas of Regulating the Digital Ecosystem
Journal: Siyasal Journal of Political Sciences
Year: 2023

The crisis of representative democracy is to a large extent a crisis of disintermediation. Its best known and most studied manifestation is expressed in the weakening of political parties and representative institutions and the link between them and the citizenry. However, the weakening of traditional media and the progressive replacement of their intermediary role between politics and citizens by social networks, although less studied, is of critical importance. This article analyses how the di