Social Networks and Political Representation in the Democratic life Cycle

Document Type : Original Article

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Post-doc Researcher in Comparative Politics and Lecturer, Munich, Germany
Abstract
The sequence of policy making and power processing in the era of media is not an unchallenged phenomenon, however, the transparency of the modern life has furnished the citizens with huge amount of informations and unbraced the democratic life from the reproach of the 'information society without informative citizens'. As a source of power and Knowledge, the hybrid life of the media has turned the poor subjective situation of the citizens and their bounded rationality into self-esteem subjects who have the potential to interrupt the rich political position of politicians. As a force of power-subordinates and power-havers, the media has regressed the delayed knowledge of democratic societies and powered them with new styles of political activism and dynamism. Accordingly, the central research question is that the transition of the multi-world period has paved the way to ask how the different perception of the current developments can deepen the relations between representatives and voters? The main hypothesis of this research question is that the hybrid identity of the media has not only debilitated the rich political position of politicians, but also paved the way of non-citizen democracy and celebrity politics. Based on these mentions, the knowledge gap between the representatives and voters will cease the democratic nexus and turn the representative chain to the dialogue of the deaf. This is exactly the situation that is ready for rising technological representative politics. This hypothesis will be theoretically tested by the constitutive representation and explanative method.
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