Social Media for Democracy

社交媒体促进民主

• 批准号: 10049415
• 金额: $ 38.92万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: EU-Funded
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10049415
• 关键词: Social; Media; Democracy

Social media for democracy – understanding the causal mechanisms of digital citizenship (SoMe4Dem) Current diagnoses that democracy isin crisis at the beginning of the 21st century share a common argumentative reference point: the (implicit) reference to the dysfunctional constitution of the political public sphere which is currently undergoing structural change. The rise ofsocial media platformsis considered as one of its main constituents. While social media make the public arena more open and thus more responsive, these platforms also lead to new mechanisms of fragmentation and exclusion, an erosion of norms in public debate and a loss of trust in traditional institutions. The project will reconsider the diagnoses of this crisis by (1) providing better empirical evidence for the impact of social media on society with respect to political debates, (2) understanding the main causal mechanisms of this impact and (3) developing tools that improve the capacity of social media to contribute to the functioning of the public arena in a liberal democracy, i.e., deliberation, legitimation and the self-perception of the democratic subject.

社会媒体促进民主--理解数字公民的因果机制（SoMe 4Dem）当前关于民主在21世纪世纪初处于危机的诊断有一个共同的争论参考点：（隐含的）参考目前正在经历结构性变化的政治公共领域的功能失调的宪法。社交媒体平台的兴起被认为是其主要组成部分之一。虽然社交媒体使公共竞技场更加开放，从而更加敏感，但这些平台也导致新的分裂和排斥机制，公共辩论规范受到侵蚀，对传统机构失去信任。该项目将通过以下方式重新考虑对这场危机的诊断：（1）为社交媒体在政治辩论方面对社会的影响提供更好的经验证据;（2）了解这种影响的主要因果机制;（3）开发工具，提高社交媒体的能力，以促进自由民主国家公共竞技场的运作，审议、合法化和民主主体的自我认知。