{"id":10237,"date":"2023-12-15T15:54:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T14:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/?post_type=hbi-publications&#038;p=10237"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:57:43","slug":"digital-turbulence-building-a-democratic-society-in-times-of-digital-upheaval","status":"publish","type":"hbi-publications","link":"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/digital-turbulence-building-a-democratic-society-in-times-of-digital-upheaval\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Turbulence: Building a Democratic Society in Times of Digital Upheaval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"description\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-4601 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Teaser-Demokratische-Gesellschaft-in-Zeiten-des-digitalen-Umbruchs-300x193.png\" alt=\"Cover \" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Teaser-Demokratische-Gesellschaft-in-Zeiten-des-digitalen-Umbruchs-300x193.png 300w, https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Teaser-Demokratische-Gesellschaft-in-Zeiten-des-digitalen-Umbruchs-768x494.png 768w, https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Teaser-Demokratische-Gesellschaft-in-Zeiten-des-digitalen-Umbruchs.png 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>HBI researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.leibniz-hbi.de\/de\/mitarbeiter\/jan-rau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jan Rau<\/a> describes how our democracy can be strengthened in digital spaces in the special issue of the journal &#8220;Wissen schafft Demokratie&#8221; [Knowledge Creates Democracy] on the topic of &#8220;Netzkulturen und Plattformpolitiken&#8221; [Net Cultures and Platform Politics]. &#8220;Wissen schafft Demokratie&#8221; is a publication series of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idz-jena.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institut f\u00fcr Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft<\/a> [Institute for Democracy and Civil Society]. All articles are available as open access publications.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idz-jena.de\/wsddet\/wsd14-02\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">To the article<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>While the digital transformation of the political public sphere is powerful in triggering political turbulence and upheaval, it is often weak when it comes to channeling this turbulence into lasting and constructive political change. The political spaces of opportunity created by technological change offer both authoritarian and democratic potential for our democracies &#8211; the former must be contained, the latter enabled. In order to achieve these goals, we must promote democratic forces in the digital space and weaken anti-democratic forces in the spirit of defensive democracy, find a middle ground between too much and too little conflict and polarization in social discourse and, finally, test new ways of channeling digital turbulence into constructive and long-term political change.<\/p>\n<p>Rau, J. (2023) Digitale Turbulenzen: Aufbau einer demokratischen Gesellschaft in Zeiten des digitalen Umbruchs [Digital Turbulence: Building a Democratic Society in Times of Digital Upheaval]. In: Institut f\u00fcr Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft (ed.). Wissen schafft Demokratie. Schwerpunkt Netzkulturen und Plattformpolitiken, volume 14. Jena, pp. 16\u201329.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2433,"template":"","tags":[398],"class_list":["post-10237","hbi-publications","type-hbi-publications","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-miscellaneous"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.6 (Yoast SEO v28.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Digital Turbulence: Building a Democratic Society in Times of Digital Upheaval - Leibniz HBI<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/digital-turbulence-building-a-democratic-society-in-times-of-digital-upheaval\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Digital Turbulence: Building a Democratic Society in Times of Digital Upheaval\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"HBI researcher Jan Rau describes how our democracy can be strengthened in digital spaces in the special issue of the journal &#8220;Wissen schafft Demokratie&#8221; [Knowledge Creates Democracy] on the topic of &#8220;Netzkulturen und Plattformpolitiken&#8221; [Net Cultures and Platform Politics]. &#8220;Wissen schafft Demokratie&#8221; is a publication series of the Institut f\u00fcr Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft [Institute for [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/digital-turbulence-building-a-democratic-society-in-times-of-digital-upheaval\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Leibniz HBI\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-08-20T13:57:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Header-Publikationen_e.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1380\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\\\/en\\\/hbi-publications\\\/digital-turbulence-building-a-democratic-society-in-times-of-digital-upheaval\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/newws.leibniz-hbi.de\\\/en\\\/hbi-publications\\\/digital-turbulence-building-a-democratic-society-in-times-of-digital-upheaval\\\/\",\"name\":\"Digital Turbulence: Building a Democratic Society in Times of Digital Upheaval - 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