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Whilst digitalisation is ultimately a technological phenomenon, it is also much more than that: digitalisation has a cultural aspect that is changing all areas of society. Digitalisation is also posing a range of challenges to democracy itself.
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Norris (2001), p. 3 f. provides an overview of the discussion in political science.
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Norris (2001), p. 63 ff. and passim with further citations, arrives at highly differentiated results on the basis of extensive empirical material. There is no empirical evidence of a general erosion of democracy.
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This binary system goes back to Leibniz at the end of the seventeenth century. On the deeper roots of digitality, see Wenzel (2003), p. 25 f. with further citations.
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Dertouzos (1999), p. 465, speaks descriptively of pillars.
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For a detailed history of the development of the Internet, see Hafner and Lyon (2000).
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For a detailed critique of this, see Landow (2006), p. 43.
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Boehme-Neßler, V. (2020). Digitalisation: The End of Democracy?. In: Digitising Democracy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34556-3_1
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