The digital party : political organisation and online democracy / Paolo Gerbaudo.
Material type: TextSeries: Digital barricadesPublisher: London : Pluto Press, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- Political parties
- Political party organization
- Communication in politics
- Social media -- Political aspects
- Political participation
- Campaign management -- United States
- Social media -- United States
- Partis politiques -- Organisation
- Communication politique
- Médias sociaux -- Aspect politique
- Participation politique
- Campagnes électorales -- Gestion -- États-Unis
- Médias sociaux -- États-Unis
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General
- Social media -- Political aspects
- Political party organization
- Political parties
- Political participation
- Communication in politics
- Campaign management
- Social media
- United States
- 324.73 23
- JF2051 .G473 2019eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-217) and index.
From the Pirate Parties in Northern Europe to Podemos in Spain and the 5-Star Movement in Italy, from the movements behind Bernie Sanders in the US and Jeremy Corbyn in UK, to Jean-Luc Melenchon's presidential bid in France, the last decade has witnessed the rise of a new blueprint for political organisation: the 'digital party'. These new political formations tap into the potential of social media, and use online participatory platforms to include the rank-and-file. Paolo Gerbaudo looks at the restructuring of political parties in the time of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and campaigning based on Big Data. Drawing on interviews with key political leaders and digital organisers, he argues that the digital party is very different from the class-based `mass party' of the industrial era. With new structures come worrying changes in political forms, such as the growth of power cliques and the need for centralised, charismatic leaders, the erosion of intermediary party layers and the loss of accountability. However, there is also a growth of strong unity at the centre and extreme flexibility at the margins, creating a promising template which could counter the social polarisation created by the Great Recession and the failures of liberal democracy.
The party strikes back -- The people of the web -- When the party mimics Facebook -- Participationism -- Death of the party cadre -- Coding democracy -- Plebiscitarianism 2.0 -- The hyperleader -- The superbase.
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