Paper Info
Title
Rational Criticism, Ideological Sustainability and Intellectual Leadership in the Digital Public Sphere
Abstract
This review postulates that today's digital environments unveil an era of connectivity, in which digital communication devices exercise a general influence on social interactions and public deliberation. From this perspective, it argues that connective practices are likely to affect two main components of the normative public sphere, namely rational criticism and ideological sustainability. Drawing on the case of the 2011 Arab revolutions, in which social media proved to have a strategic function, this paper illustrates the ideological heterogeneity of social networks. Additionally, this article considers how issues of rational criticism and ideological sustainability could be improved by regulating online interactions and proposes that the digital divide could act as a natural process of regulation for today's connective and transnational public sphere.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.4018/ijep.2014010105
International Journal of E-Politics
Keywords
Field
DocType
arab spring,e-democracy,digital divide,cyber-activism,ideological sustainability,intellectual leadership,public sphere,connectivity,rational criticism
Deliberation,Social science,Criticism,Social network,Social media,Public sphere,Digital divide,Sociology,Ideology,E-democracy
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
1
1947-9131
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dounia Mahlouly100.34