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| Author: | Agren, P.-O. |
| Title: | Is Online Democracy in the EU for Professionals Only? |
| Journal: | Communications of the ACM
2001 : JAN, VOL. 44:1, p. 36-38 |
| Index terms: | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEMOCRACY INTERNET POLITICS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The paper considers the influence of the information technology on the democracy processes in the European Union. The developing of Internet and information technologies is a great possibility to make a thin democracy a bit stronger. The author states the directive of European Parliament (a document created in 1995) is a restriction of the freedom of expression on the Internet and other virtual settings, but only for ordinary citizens The directive excludes processing of personal data for journalistic, artistic, and literary purposes from these constrains. Thus, according to the EU parliament, enough freedom of expression in virtual is achieved when authors, journalists and artists are free to engage in political debates. Democratic debate then becomes a purely professional activity. This reflects a very thin democracy model. |
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