The Dark Side of Digital Politics: Understanding the Algorithmic Manufacturing of Consent and the Hindering of Online Dissidence
dc.contributor.author | Treré, Emiliano | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-11T10:08:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-01-11T10:08:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-01-11 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1759-5436 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/7697 | |
dc.description.abstract | Various strands of literature on civic engagement, ‘big data’ and open government view digital technologies as the key to easier government accountability and citizens’ empowerment, and the solution to many of the problems of contemporary democracies. Drawing on a critical analysis of contemporary Mexican social and political phenomena, and on a two-yearlong ethnography with the #YoSoy132 networked movement, this article demonstrates that digital tools have been successfully deployed by Mexican parties and governments in order to manufacture consent, sabotage dissidence, threaten activists, and gather personal data without citizens’ agreement. These new algorithmic strategies, it is contended, clearly show that there is nothing inherently democratic in digital communication technologies, and that citizens and activists have to struggle against increasingly sophisticated techniques of control and repression that exploit the very mechanisms that many consider to be emancipatory technologies. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | IDS Bulletin;47.1 | |
dc.rights | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International licence, which permits downloading and sharing provided the original authors and source are credited – but the work is not used for commercial purposes. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Governance | en |
dc.title | The Dark Side of Digital Politics: Understanding the Algorithmic Manufacturing of Consent and the Hindering of Online Dissidence | en |
dc.type | Series paper (IDS) | en |
dc.rights.holder | Institute of Development Studies | en |
dc.identifier.team | Power and Popular Politics | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.19088/1968-2016.111 |
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