After democracy : imagining our political future / Zizi Papacharissi.
Material type: TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 156 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780300258646
- 030025864X
- 321.8 23
- JC421 .P37 2021eb
- JC423
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Democracy has long been considered an ideal state of governance. What if it's not? Perhaps it is not the end goal but, rather, a transition stage to something better. Drawing on original interviews conducted with citizens of more than thirty countries, Zizi Papacharissi explores what democracy is, what it means to be a citizen, and what can be done to enhance governance.0 As she probes the ways governments can better serve their citizens and evolve in positive ways, Papacharissi gives a voice to everyday people, whose ideas and experiences of capitalism, media, and education can help shape future governing practices. This book expands on the well-known difficulties of realizing the intimacy of democracy in a global world-the "democratic paradox"--And presents a concrete vision of how communications technologies can be harnessed to implement representative equality, information equality, and civic literacy
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ONE: What If? -- TWO: Democracy on the Run -- THREE: To Be a Citizen -- FOUR: Toward the New -- FIVE: Before Democracy -- Notes -- Index.
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