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SUMMARY:Digital Technologies and Democracy: A Minimalist\, Practice-orient
 ed Institutional Approach - Rasmus Kleis Nielsen\, Oxford
DTSTART:20151109T120000Z
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CONTACT:Judith Weik
DESCRIPTION:**ABSTRACT**\n\nMuch of the discussion around the relationship
  between digital information and communication technologies and democracy 
 has focused too little on the question of what connections exists between 
 digital technologies and actually existing\, minimalist-vision democracy\,
  and too much on extensive discussion of the possible connections that mig
 ht potentially be established between digital technologies and alternative
 \, maximalist visions for democracy. In my view\, this is a problem in two
  ways. First\, emphasis on alternatives at the expense of the actual limit
 s our understanding of the world we live in. Second\, abstract discussions
  of what digital _might_ do for democracy seems to sometimes be allowed to
  serve as a stand-in for what it does _do_ in and for democracy\, in turn 
 distorting and exaggerating its role. The basic point here is we need to f
 ind a different starting point if we wish to understand the relationship b
 etween digital technology and democracy.\n\n**About the Speaker**\n\nRasmu
 s Kleis Nielsen is Director of Research at the Reuters Institute for the S
 tudy of Journalism in the Department of Politics and International Relatio
 ns at the University of Oxford and Editor-in-Chief of the International Jo
 urnal of Press/Politics. He has [been] author/editor of five books on vari
 ous aspects of political communication\, journalism\, and news media\, inc
 luding the award-winning “Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Pol
 itical Campaigns”\, and has published widely in both academic and genera
 l interest publications.
LOCATION: Room SG1\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, C
 B3 9DT
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