[p2p-research] Fwd: Beyond the 'networked public sphere'

[Michel Bauwens]

treatment planned for the 31st via
http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/politics-participation-and-technics-in-web-20/2009/10/31

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From: Daniel Araya <levelsixmedia at hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 3:03 AM
Subject: Beyond the 'networked public sphere'
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 Beyond the 'networked public sphere': politics, participation and technics
in web 2.0

   - Ben Roberts
   - Fibreculture <http://journal.fibreculture.org/>

Read the full text  PDF Read the full text of Beyond the 'networked public
sphere': politics, participation and technics in web
2.0<http://journal.fibreculture.org/issue14/issue14_roberts.html>The
concept of participation is at the heart of many current debates about
politics and technology. There are two main reasons for saying this. On the
one hand is an ongoing and increasing concern about public participation, or
lack of it, in modern (predominantly Western) democracies. This
participatory deficit is to be seen in falling voter turnout at elections,
public apathy on key political issues and scorn or indifference for elected
political representatives. On the other hand, there is a wave of optimism
concerning the potential of new technologies, particularly the web, to
enable new forms of participation in economic and public life, to transform
political debate and citizenship and to renew the ailing (or perceived to be
ailing) institutions of democracy. This optimism around participation and
politics, while it has played a role in utopian visions of the internet more
or less since its inception, has been reinvigorated recently by the
discussion around the so-called Web 2.0.
This article argues for a much more critical or sceptical approach to the
political promise of Web 2.0. Focusing particularly on Yochai Benkler's The
Wealth of Networks, it argues that current accounts of the participatory
aspects of web culture tend to take a rather narrow view of what such
participation might mean. However, aspects of the work of Bernard Stiegler,
and that of others in the Ars Industrialis group co-founded by Stiegler, can
help inform a more nuanced account of the relationship between politics and
participation. It looks specifically at the arguments in Marc Crépon and
Bernard Stiegler's book *De la démocratie participative*, written during the
recent French presidential campaign, and will examine how the idea of
participation articulates with key themes in Stiegler's philosophy of
technics. Finally it suggests some ways in which this debate on
participation might be moved on.

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