Democracy as Communication: Towards a Normative Framework for Evaluating Digital Technologies

IF 0.1 4区 哲学 0 PHILOSOPHY
Mark Coeckelbergh
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Abstract

Are current digital technologies supporting democracy? Answering that question depends, among other things, on what is meant by democracy. This article mobilizes a communicative conception of democracy. While it is generally accepted that communication is important for democracy, there are directions in democracy theory that understand communication as not merely instrumental but as central to what democracy is and should be. Inspired by Dewey, Habermas, and Young, this paper articulates a conception of democracy as communication. It is then argued that this “deep-communicative” ideal of democracy, together with the usual ethical and epistemic norms of communication as sketched by O’Neill, offer a tentative normative framework for evaluating digital technologies in relation to democracy.

民主即传播:建立评估数字技术的规范性框架
当前的数字技术是否支持民主?要回答这个问题,主要取决于民主的含义。本文提出了民主的传播概念。虽然人们普遍认为交流对民主很重要,但民主理论的一些方向认为交流不仅是工具性的,而且是民主是什么和应该是什么的核心。受杜威、哈贝马斯和杨的启发,本文阐述了作为交流的民主概念。本文认为,这种 "深度交流 "的民主理想,以及奥尼尔所勾勒的通常的交流伦理和认识规范,为评估与民主相关的数字技术提供了一个初步的规范框架。
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