Democratizing Technology: Hierarchy and Innovation in Public Life
- 1 December 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in Polity
- Vol. 27 (2) , 175-199
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3235172
Abstract
Scholarly and popular debates surrounding new technologies have focused on two alternatives: that they will create a genuinely participatory democracy or make democratic politics irrelevant through the dominance of technological imperatives. This paper advances an alternative view, based on considering democracy as an ethos of opposition, that democrats should attend to the ways in which new technologies should be designed and delivered to permit challenging existing hierarchies and disrupt existing constellations of power.Keywords
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