The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy
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The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy
by Paolo Gerbaudo
4.03 · Rating details · 36 ratings · 5 reviews
From the Pirate Parties in Northern Europe to Podemos in Spain and the 5-Star Movement in Italy, from the movements behind Bernie Sanders in the United States and Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom, to Jean-Luc Melenchon's presidential bid in France, the last decade has witnessed the rise of a new blueprint for political organization: the digital party.
These new political formations tap into the potential of social media to gain consensus, and use online participatory platforms to include the rank-and-file. Paolo Gerbaudo looks at the restructuring of political parties and campaigns in the time of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and big data. Drawing on interviews with key political leaders and digital organizers, he argues that the digital party is very different from the class-based “mass party” of the industrial era, and offers promising new solutions to social polarization and the failures of liberal democracy today.
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Published April 15th 2019 by Pluto Press
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Jorgen Eriksson
Dec 01, 2019Jorgen Eriksson rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I like it as an introduction to online democracy It made me think in an other way
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Marisa Sotolongo
Jun 19, 2021Marisa Sotolongo rated it it was amazing
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Well written and researched. You could probably get the important parts from just the introduction and conclusion.
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Adri Nurellari
Jan 11, 2020Adri Nurellari rated it it was amazing
excellent book, I loved the way it demystifies new non-conventional populist parties by showing that their digitalisation does not necessarily guarantee more democracy
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Tony
Mar 27, 2021Tony rated it really liked it
When a political party is as easy to join as a "like" on facebook or a share of a hashtag, what potential does that political party have to organize and effect change? Though the internet promises greater numbers of participants in the political process (imagine voting via the internet, not just for leaders - but for the policies those leaders champion) Paulo Gerbaudo warns that so far the internet has only provided hypercentralized, super powerful charismatic leaders and a generally passive superbase that doesn't actually organize, participate, or work together to accomplish anything. A great argument against the hyperindividualized, less structured, less organized version of democracy libertarians and internet activists fetishize. We need in person connection, we need leaders, we need representatives, and we need physical parties in order to organize properly. (less)
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Tyler K
Mar 29, 2021Tyler K rated it really liked it
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Read for the Dig podcast's book club. Interesting analytical foray into the modern, digital political party (compared to the 'mass party' of the industrial era or the 'television party' of the neoliberal era). Would've liked more development in parts and found some of its arguments incomplete, but a good survey of a number of European parties on the left and right with many lessons to be drawn. (less)
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