Digitale Democratie: Be careful what you wish for... - Floris Mansvelt Beck

LOCATION: GRAVENSTEEN

LABEL: TALK

TIME: 22:30

If democracy means a people ruling over itself, what is digital democracy - digital self-control? Well, good luck with that.

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For those who don't know yet, we are in the middle of a digital revolution. Having barely recovered from the economic, agricultural and industrial upheavals of the past centuries (not to mention politics), a digital revolution is now thundering over us, with the foresight of an adolescent on a fat bike. Democracy must also be taken into account. But what exactly is digital democracy? And should we be so happy about it? I would say ask Chat-GPT. No, seriously - ask Chat-GPT. Then we will talk further on Saturday evening, about democratic infancy, digital hubris and democratic self-confidence. 

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Dr. Mr. Floris Mansvelt Beck was trained at Leiden University as a self-taught scholar in political philosophy and constitutional theory and is affiliated with the Institute of Political Science. He previously conducted research into changing views on freedom in times of secularization and depillarization. Nowadays he likes to think about ideology, polarization and democratic self-confidence.