Mediating Democracy: is the New Media Able to Create a Pure Democracy?
Mediating Democracy: is the New Media Able to Create a Pure Democracy?

Summary/Abstract: In recent years, due to the extraordinary development of mass communication techniques, the possibility of reviving the Athenian model of direct democracy with the help of the new media has been seriously taken into account by many political thinkers. This new form of democracy would be at the same time direct – offering to the citizens the possibility of directly expressing their opinions – but also mediated – those opinions are expressed through the media, using the modern communication technologies. The main objective of our paper is to suggest that before embracing this form of oxymoronic democracy (direct and mediated at the same time).

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