Od tradičných k inovatívnym formám participácie: fenoménu slacktivizmu

Abstract

The long-term interest of the most modern democratic political systems is based on finding ways to support the increase in citizen participation in public affairs. It is related to the crisis of representative democracy which manifests itself besides others by apathy toward various political activities. Innovative forms of participation represent one of the tools to mitigate the crisis and support a part of the population's interest in public affairs. The result of the research is the finding that online activism had an impact on the Slovak parliamentary election 2020 in terms of political awareness and in addition to traditional media, online campaigns had a significant mobilizing influence on voter turnout. The negative aspect of online participation remains the slacktivism phenomenon which does not influence the changes in society.