Elektroninės demokratijos prieštaravimai
Controversies of the Electronic Democracy

Summary/Abstract: The opinion on the new perspectives of democracy in the framework of information society, formed on the basis of the idea of electronic democracy, is analyzed in this article. The author provides for a number of arguments, which point to the dangers democracy faces as a result of new technological advances, namely the intensification of individualistic aspects within the society and the transformation of moral norms into the new instructions on how to use the Internet. This article presents two scenarios on the evolution of the electronic democracy and the problems of social, state, and international relations, which take hold as a result of the former: optimistic (the so-called "Agora’s") and the pessimistic ("Orvel’s") scenarios. Pointing to the fact that the communication technologies provide the contemporary societies with a variety of advantages and new opportunities in politics, economics and culture, the author, at the same time, draws proper attention to a few negative aspects reinforcing a new perspective on the development of the electronic democracy. These are the aspects that bind politics and make it dependent on the computer technologies. (...)

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