Internet enriches the ways of practicing democracy. In this interview, Dominique Cardon defines this “ Original political form Who presupposes the equality of participants and offers a virtuous model of cooperation. He notes the current developments linked to the massification of uses and the diversification of audiences, while pointing the risks of reproduction on the web of traditional social hierarchies.
Dominique Cardon is a sociologist at the France Telecom R&D uses laboratory. His work relates in particular to the contemporary transformations of public space, on the relations between the uses of new technologies and cultural and media practices.
Interview carried out during the forum “ Reinvent democracy »Has held in Grenoble on May 8, 9 and 10, 2009.
– Video summary:
- How does the Internet make it possible to correct the defects of representative democracy ? What is the political form of the Internet ?
- Is the equality of the participants real ? Do traditional sociological variables play in the distribution of hierarchies on the web ?
- We are witnessing a diversification of internet audiences. That changes the massification of uses ?
- How to prevent the Internet from becoming a public space like the others ?