Archives: democracy

Saturday, December 1, 2018

[Millennials’ Voices] The Filter Bubble: Democratic Toil and Trouble?

by Christopher Breen You follow the #OnPoli hashtag religiously, and you certainly know your way around the Google search engine. All things considered, you might think you are a reasonably well-informed voter. But when you go to the polls in the upcoming Ontario election, will you really know all there is to know? It’s... More

Saturday, December 1, 2018

[Millennials’ Voices] Digital Democracy: Myth or Reality?

by Rachel Farah The term “digital democracy” has a nice ring to it. It sums up everything that we want the internet to be, and perhaps, what it once was before the emergence of Web 2.0. It denotes a utopian ideal of the possibilities that the internet affords such as open dialogue, free speech,... More

Monday, October 1, 2018

[Millennials’ Voices] Issue 2: Desperate Dreams of Digital Democratization?

Introduction by Rory Clark The social media boom that began in 2007 is perhaps now coming to an end, with Facebook numbers now dropping for millennials and post-millennials in Canada, not to mention the many post US election social media ‘scandals’ (I’ll just let you Google that one yourself and take your pick), as... More

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