{"id":401,"date":"2018-01-25T10:59:08","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T08:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/?p=401"},"modified":"2018-01-25T10:59:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-25T08:59:08","slug":"digital-democracy-too-risky-or-the-chance-of-a-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/2018\/01\/25\/digital-democracy-too-risky-or-the-chance-of-a-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Democracy &#8211; Too risky or the chance of a generation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article on SWI Swissinfo.ch on the risks and chances of a digital democracy, Prof. Dr. Abraham Bernstein gives his view on the matter. He argues in favour of \u201c<em>making citizens aware of political issues online and via smartphones, fostering discussions, getting quick feedback from the people on political issues, and simplifying the collection of signatures<\/em>\u201d. More about the current state of the debate can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/directdemocracy\/political-perspectives_digital-democracy--too-risky--or-the-chance-of-a-generation-\/43836222\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_402\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/photos\/MsXrapwmfwE\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-402\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/files\/2018\/01\/digital_democracy2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/files\/2018\/01\/digital_democracy2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/files\/2018\/01\/digital_democracy2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/files\/2018\/01\/digital_democracy2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/files\/2018\/01\/digital_democracy2-147x220.jpg 147w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-402\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democracy and political engagement right in your pocket?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article on SWI Swissinfo.ch on the risks and chances of a digital democracy, Prof. Dr. Abraham Bernstein gives his view on the matter. He argues in favour of \u201cmaking citizens aware of political issues online and via smartphones, fostering discussions, getting quick feedback from the people on political issues, and simplifying the collection [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":388,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein","category-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406,"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uzh.ch\/blog\/ifi-ddis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}