Digital Citizenship by Massimo Di Felice
The Western idea of democracy, based on human opinions and the counting of votes, has become obsolete. The exclusively human form of democracy is being substituted by a new kind of contract which, through digital architecture, the internet of things and sensors, extends participation to all of the different entities that make up our habitat. Parliaments, citizen assemblies, parties and all kinds of the political architecture of interaction, inspired by the model of the polis, are giving way to platforms, blockchains and different network environments. In this interactive ecosystem, humans, data, viruses, the climate, sensors, biodiversity and informatic territories have begun to express collaborative policies and solutions through a dialogue with data. Today, the Western idea of society, founded on a contract between citizens and limited to the cohabitation of human subjects (just as the idea of citizenship is based on the fundamental rights of people) faced with the challenges of the pandemic, of climate change and those posed by the latest generation of intelligent networks, turns out to be inadequate. The digital citizenship of today is the research area in which to search for the overcoming of the Western political project and to begin a new culture of governance within complex networks characterized by interactions within an architecture that is no longer composed either of subjects nor objects.
Massimo Di Felice teaches theory of public opinion in digital contexts at the University of S. Paolo USP in Brazil, where is the founding director of Atopos, an international research center on digital networks. He is also the scientific director of the Toposofia institute in Rome. He holds a PhD in communication science from the university of S. Paolo, and a degree in sociology from the Sapienza University in Rome. He has held research positions in a range of countries and is currently visiting professor at the Paris Descartes University, the Paul Valery University in Montepellier, the Lusophone University in Porto, the Roma Tre University and the Sapienza. He is the author of scientific articles and books published in various languages, incluing Net-attivismo dall’ azione sociale all’atto connettivo (Estemporanee 2017) and Paysages post-urbains. La fin de l’ experience urbaine et les formes communicatives de l’habiter (CNRS, 2016).
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| ISBN 13 | 9788869774027 |
| ISBN 10 | 8869774023 |
| Title | Digital Citizenship |
| Author | Massimo Di Felice |
| Series | Politics |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Mimesis International |
| Year published | 2022-10-03 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
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