The Reconfiguration of Democracy in the Digital Age

The impact of digital platforms on the electoral process

Abstract

There is no peaceful conceptualization in the literature about what it means to be a democracy, being defined depending on the theoretical or analytical perspective. However, the role of the citizen, the choice of government and its responsiveness to those permeates most of them. Based on this, in the Digital Age, with the advent of platforms and the accelerated spread of information (and misinformation), it is clear that there was an impact on democratic regimes and the elements mentioned in democratic quality. In view of this, the present research has the general objective of evaluating the impact of Internet platforms, and the regulation or non-governmental over them, in the electoral process of the countries. To comply with this scope, the methodological path started from a theoretical essay on what the democratic regime is, focusing on proceduralistic authors from the bibliographical and documental review on the conceptualization of democracy and the phenomenon of disinformation, which is amplified by the digital media and platforms. Moving on to the creation of a model from a database created with the collection of secondary data, to carry out the descriptive analysis of the cases. This emerging theme becomes increasingly relevant as one observes how much the spread of content on online platforms has revolutionized communication and, consequently, the democratic debate.