Informação, democracia digital e participação política: uma breve revisão teórico-analítica

Abstract

The development of information and communication technologies reveals, in contemporaneity, substantial changes in the modus operandi of the various social instances, such as the economy and politics. The internet is configured as a fruitful network for the transfer of traditional human activities - health and education, as examples – for a cybernetic culture (or cyberculture), because the it enables the production and sharing of information/content information from interconnected computers. In this way, the article discusses certain conceptual aspects about political participation in a network, specifically on websites of deputies of the Legislative Assembly of Bahia. It reviews the conceptual outlines about 'cyberspace' and 'cyberdemocracy', considering information as an essential prerogative of the democratic regime, as well as the theoretical assumptions of digital democracy and participation from the critique of political participation in a fragmented society. consider, ultimately, that the internet could be an important instrument of reinforcement of the democratic regime, justified in the aforementioned arguments, but reveals other aspects related to political participation in the network.