http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4799 Conflitto e partecipazione democratica nella società digitale / Conflict and Democratic Participation in the Digital Society Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:59:36 GMT 2026-04-20T11:59:36Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4828 La partecipazione politica nel tempo della post-democrazia Sorice, Michele he concept of participation has been defined in different ways over time and also the prac-tices of political participation have been interpreted and classified in many different ways in the political procedures of the representative democracies. Similarly, the notion of conflictpresents various critical points: even in some forms of democratic innovation, the conflicthas been expunged or anesthetized. The growing centrality of the digital ecosystem repre-sents a new variable: on the one hand, in fact, it offers spaces for mobilization and political action, on the other hand, it reveals itself as the outcome of a digital capitalism in which thedealignment of power between citizens and platforms is resolved clearly in favour of thelatter. The emergence of what has been defined as “platform society” is connected with theaffirmation of post-democracy. The public sphere - increasingly fragmented - is also evolv-ing towards what has been defined as the “post-public sphere”. The transformations taking place can be better understood if framed in the “paradigm of the crisis”, made even moreevident in the time of the pandemic. A review of many concepts then becomes necessary,within a scientific horizon that does not renounce to critically analyse its own tools. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4828 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4827 Oltre la rappresentazione novecentesca delle dinamiche di opinione:la riconfigurazione del modello della doxasfera Cristante, Stefano This article proposes a descriptive model of the performing areas present in the communication dynamics (doxasphere). This model allows us to redefine the bottlenecks of the concepts of public opinion inherited from the twentieth century tradition, definitively including the digital virtuality in the conditions of its construction and in conflicts of opinion. Moving from Bourdieu's statement that “the state of opinion, at a given moment, is a system of forces and tensions” (Bourdieu, 1973, p. 74), we identify four performing areas constantly intervening on the problematic issues that may generate conflicts of opinion: decision makers, pressure groups, multitudes and media. We define the representation of this framework “doxasphere”. Over the past few decades, the connected digital system triggered a reconfiguration of the doxasphere, whose dynamics are now produced by disintermediated decision makers, connected pressure groups and digital opinion leaders, prosumers (connected multitudes) and hybridized media. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4827 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4826 Democrazia, partecipazione e conflitto: el caliente otoño latinoamericano Picarella, Lucia This article analyzes, with a qualitative methodology, the problems underlying the delicate correlation between representation, participation, conflict, assessed in the context of the radical democracy studies and in consideration of the Latin American scenario, the laboratory par excellence of participatory practices, involved during the course of the last year by interesting protests and demonstrations. The outbreak of social conflict in this region has underlined the crisis and dysfunctionality of the democratic circuit, highlighting however interesting news compared to the past, both in terms of the peculiarity of the protest and its channeling for the purpose of redefining the political-institutional space, as well as incidence of digital ecosystems for the organization and maintenance of the action. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4826 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4825 Civic Participation Faces Resentment: Right-wing Movements in Brazil and the Crisis of Dem Caminhas, Lorena; Lelo, Thales Vilela Since 2015, Brazil has been experiencing the explosion of right-wing protests. These pro-tests were assembled by groups organised in digital media, which claimed forms of demo-cratic participation to propagate antidemocratic ideas, such as the shutdown of public poli-cies based on social redistribution of resources to the poorest; the criminalization of the so-cial movements linked to social minorities; and the extinction of councils of popular parti-cipation. In this article, we develop a discourse analysis on the Facebook pages of the three major right-wing groups in Brazil, namely, Movimento Brasil Livre (MBL), Vem Pra Rua, and Movimento Contra a Corrupção(MCC). Our sample is composed of 468 posts made by these three groups when they established profiles on Facebook and at the moment of the major right-wing civil protests in Brazil between 2015 and 2018. We aim to understand the discursive strategies adopted by these groups to undermine democratic citizenship purpor-tedly laying claim to its normative terms. We argue that these movements show the dark face of civic action’s supposed virtuosity: a vengeful form of resentment. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://elea.unisa.it/xmlui/handle/10556/4825 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z