description: This book sets out to make the case for giving everyone the possibility of participating in the development of a European vision of democracy in the age of the information society. It asks what impact the new media are having on politics and representative democracy, and looks at the growing relationship between politics and the media and the new links between democracy and representation. It also examines the effect of technological development on the broadening of the political arena and the new ways of exercising political responsibility. The possibility that everyone can be consulted about everything, with traditional forms of democratic representation being challenged by the new power of the media, is considered with its profound implications, including the development of novel methods of organizing and regulating political life.
language: English
title: Democracy and the Information Society in Europe
titlecomplete: Democracy and the Information Society in Europe
publisher: St. Martins Press NY