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Despite efforts of several authors, surveillance
is nowadays yet sparsely understood, although
surveillance has increasing impacts in our lives. The
purpose of this paper is to point out, from a theoretical
point of view, the threats that surveillance presents to
political participation (and by consequence, to
democracy) in digital societies. Current researches
present the threats of surveillance to democracy focusing
mainly in democracy-privacy trade-offs. Such debate, on
the one hand, circumscribes the issue to a great extent to
choosing the rulers and the kind of political regime,
which does not allow a broader analysis of citizen
participation in all spheres of public life in their daily
life. On the other hand, the current debates seem put a
little aside from the main issue: it is not the loss of
privacy, but the loss of autonomy that challenges
participation (and by consequence, democracy);
although nowadays the threats to autonomy proceed
mainly from the loss of privacy.
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Surveillance Political participation Autonomy Risk
Citation
Simões, Maria João (2011), “Surveillance: A (Potential) Threat to Political Participation?” ICDS 2011: The Fifth International Conference on Digital Society, pp. 94-99; Copyright (c) IARIA, ISBN: 978-1-61208-003-1; ISI Thompson Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI)