Democracy, the Digital and the Public Sphere

When:
25 April 2019 @ 1:00 pm – 7:30 pm
2019-04-25T13:00:00+01:00
2019-04-25T19:30:00+01:00
Where:
University of Westminster
309 Regent St
Marylebone, London W1B 2HT
UK
Contact:
Centre for the Study of Democracy
Democracy, the Digital and the Public Sphere @ University of Westminster | England | United Kingdom

The workshop will encourage a theoretically diverse and interdisciplinary conversation on the impact of an increasingly digitally mediated public sphere has on contemporary democracy. To what extent is the digital undermining or enhancing democratic expectations? What interventions could improve the democratic character of the public sphere?

The event will be structured around two panels and a keynote lecture by Archon Fung on “Democracy, Design, and the Digital Public Sphere” (a paper he is co-authoring with Joshua Cohen). It will be hosted by Graham Smith.

About the speaker

Archon Fung is Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research explores policies, practices, and institutional designs that deepen the quality of democratic governance, in particular, public participation, deliberation, and transparency. He co-directs the Transparency Policy Project and leads democratic governance programs of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Kennedy School. His books include Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency (Cambridge University Press, with Mary Graham and David Weil) and Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy (Princeton University Press).

How to book

A link for free ticket registration will be available soon.

Centre for the Study of Democracy

This event is a collaboration of the Centre for the Study of Democracy and the Participatory and Deliberative Democracy specialist group with friendly support of the Political Studies Association.

The Centre for the Study of Democracy, based in the School of Social Sciences, has an international reputation for research excellence, with research themes in: critical international theory; democratic theory and practice; gender and sexuality; governance, complexity and resilience; post-colonial politics development and emerging powers; security, violence and justice, and social and cultural lives.

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