Descripción del proyecto
Un estudio más detallado de cómo las redes sociales afectan a la democracia
Las democracias e instituciones europeas utilizan las plataformas de redes sociales para interactuar con los ciudadanos e influir en la opinión pública. Pero existe otra cara de la moneda de las redes sociales. Los grandes gigantes de la tecnología, como Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple y Microsoft, han entrado en el escenario político y pueden crear opinión. La cuestión ahora es si son lo suficientemente potentes como para cambiar la opinión política de una persona. El equipo del proyecto INCA, financiado con fondos europeos, estudiará formas de mantener la confianza en las instituciones y nuevos modelos de gobernanza que puedan competir con el crecimiento de las plataformas. También identificará las maneras en que estas plataformas influyen en la gente para que crea lo contrario y explorará cómo difundir la equidad y prevenir la alteración digital.
Objetivo
INCA project investigates the impact that so-called digital platforms have on European democracies and institutions. Indeed, while promoting economic growth and labour transformations, these platforms pose challenges to policymakers and citizens in relation to people’ participation in decision-making processes, wealth inequalities and erosion of trust into public institutions. In particular, so-called GAFAM (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft) are becoming more and more infrastructures for opinion-making, labour organization and political debate. Their increasing power in shaping and influencing such issues through lobbying, industrial relations and cultural impact opened up a wide debate on the way to deal with these transformations. While European societies grew up based on liberal democracies and institutions with their capacity to sustain a coordinated market economy, today their role seems to be reduced because of the difficulties to regulate platforms’ corporate power that spread through politics, economy and culture.
INCA aims to
• define forms to sustain trust in institutions and new models of governance capable to combine the growth of platforms with social inclusion and citizens participation in decision making processes;
• stimulate alternative business models and industrial relations so to make GAFAM and platforms accountable to social fairness while preserving their innovation;
• to clarify the way GAFAM influence European citizens opinion conditioning democratic processes.
Exploring the socio-historical roots behind platforms growth and the erosion of a coordinated market economy, collecting solid data on GAFAM lobbying, industrial relations and opinion-making, and producing participatory actions for the empowerment of democratic processes and citizens’ engagement, INCA contributes to instil greater democratic accountability and inclusion in economic processes prompted by digital transformations.
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40126 Bologna
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