A internet à luz da democracia deliberativa: desafios para uma deliberação plural e igualitária.

Abstract

The present work focuses on carrying out a reinterpretation of the Deliberative Democracy Theory proposed by Jürgen Habermas, analyzing it under the prism of the advent of the internet and other Information and Communications Technologies. Therefore, the aim is, first, to show that the Internet has the capacity to materialize public and potentialize public deliberations - the core of Deliberative Democracy - and can be seen as a new and updated public sphere. Then, it seeks to investigate how and on which aspects the Internet itself challenges in achieving a plural and egalitarian deliberation. Keywords: Deliberative Democracy. Internet. Public Deliberation. Public Sphere. Challenges.