Overview
- Sheds new light on the interaction between democracy and the Internet
- Links Habermas’s theory discourse theory of democracy and the constitutional evolution of Brazil
- Provides a well documented and updated presentation of the pioneer Brazilian Internet Bill of Rights
- Deepens our understanding of how the Internet influences democracy
Part of the book series: Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 27)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Internet, Democracy, and Brazil
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The Virtualized Constitutional Democracy in Brazil
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Keywords
- Democracy and Internet
- Empowerment and Legitimacy
- Discourse theory
- Brazilian Internet Bill of Rights
- Contextualizing the Internet
- Democratic Deficit
- Private and public autonomy
- Virtualized Constitutional Democracy
- Online Empowerment
- Internet Regulation
- Public Debate
- Adapting online interactions
- Recognition and Citizenship
- LAN houses and the legal barriers
About this book
This book throws new light on the way in which the Internet impacts on democracy. Based on Jürgen Habermas’ discourse-theoretical reconstruction of democracy, it examines one of the world’s largest, most diverse but also most unequal democracies, Brazil, in terms of the broad social and legal effects the internet has had. Focusing on the Brazilian constitutional evolution, the book examines how the Internet might impact on the legitimacy of a democratic order and if, and how, it might yield opportunities for democratic empowerment. The book also assesses the ways in which law, as an institution and a system, reacts to the changes and challenges brought about by the Internet: the ways in which law may retain its strength as an integrative force, avoiding a ‘virtual’ legitimacy crisis.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Samantha S. Moura Ribeiro is an Assistant Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), and a member of the Centre for Constitutional Studies NEC/PUC-Rio. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.Res from the European University Institute (EUI), Florence. She also holds a Master degree in State Theory and Constitutional Law, from PUC-Rio. She is a socio-legal scholar whose main research focuses on the guarantee of fundamental rights online, with a particular interest in discursive empowerment and legitimacy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Democracy after the Internet - Brazil between Facts, Norms, and Code
Authors: Samantha S. Moura Ribeiro
Series Title: Law, Governance and Technology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33593-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-33592-6Published: 25 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81555-8Published: 12 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-33593-3Published: 16 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2352-1902
Series E-ISSN: 2352-1910
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 223
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet)