Deliberative Democracy and Difference
By Mark Kann
Design by Alessandro Ceglia
Editors' Introduction
In the heady dot.com days around about 1997, many commentators celebrated the web's potential to foster a vibrant electronic public sphere. This online agora was commonly envisioned as a more ideal version of our messy embodied lives, a place where we could shuck off the constraints of physicality and build new 'cyber communities' free of the shackles of race, gender, sexuality and other markers of identity and difference. While such visions have been frequently critiqued for their blindspots and tendencies toward determinism, the optimism of that earlier moment has resurfaced in discussions of the "participatory" culture of Web 2.0 technologies. The dream of the perfect public sphere also surfaces in theories of deliberative democracy that imagine the possibility of rational consensus and civic engagement where reasoned deliberation trumps passion, often fostered via online tools and public fora.
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