Citizenship, participation and new technologies. An uncertain future
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Democracy has suffered countless reformulations, debates, reflections and, in the end, different and divergent opinions which has built it. It is precisely in relation to the management of division, conflict and difference where democracy has consolidated the zoon politikon. The operationalization and the conclusion which remains nowadays is representative democracy, although with shades in relation to the equilibrium between the powers of institutions, spaces for participation and other complementary classifications, such as audience democracy, political party’s democracy, parliamentary democracy, e‑democracy. This arrangement faces new challenges in the aftermath of globalization: the representation. This article explores the concept of participation and the role of the new technologies as potential agents of the new democratic horizon in an essential public institution: the local administration.