Installationsföreläsning - Constitutionalism, Democracy and the Challenges of a Digital Age

The digital age – whether we think of it as the historic development of internet
search and access to information, the rise of social media and concentration of
power in a small number of companies, the emergent world of automation and
artificial intelligence in realms from social welfare to military force to everything else,
the integration of digital technology into every aspect of our lives, or something else
– has been both a bulwark for citizen engagement in public affairs and a threat to
democratic institutions.

How should we be thinking about and bolstering democracy in this age of
technology’s dominance? What is democracy in the digital age? What are the
challenges to it? How does human rights online relate to broader themes of
democracy? Do we need a theory for democracy in the digital age?

Speaker: David Kaye - Distinguished Fulbright Chair in Public International Law at the RWI and the Law Faculty.