Assessing Digital Threats to Democracy, and Workable Solutions: A Review of the Recent Literature

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dc.citation.issue1
dc.citation.volume14
dc.contributor.authorKuehn KM
dc.contributor.authorSalter LA
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-09T01:31:22Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-25T06:45:37Z
dc.date.available2020-04-29
dc.date.available2024-02-09T01:31:22Z
dc.date.available2024-07-25T06:45:37Z
dc.date.issued2020-04
dc.description.abstractConcerns surrounding the threats that digital platforms pose to the functioning of Western liberal democracies have grown since the 2016 U.S. election. Yet despite a preponderance of academic work in this area, the precise nature of these threats, empirical solutions for their redress, and their relationship to the wider digital political economy remain undertheorized. This article addresses these gaps with a semisystematic literature review that identifies and defines four prominent threats—fake news, filter bubbles/echo chambers, online hate speech, and surveillance—and constructs a typology of “workable solutions” for combating these threats that highlights the tendency to silo technical, regulatory, or culturally embedded approaches.
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dc.format.pagination2589-2610
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dc.identifier.citationKuehn KM, Salter LA. (2020). Assessing Digital Threats to Democracy, and Workable Solutions: A Review of the Recent Literature. International Journal of Communication. 14. 1. (pp. 2589-2610).
dc.identifier.eissn1932-8036
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
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dc.identifier.urihttps://mro.massey.ac.nz/handle/10179/70812
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherUSC Annenberg Press
dc.publisher.urihttps://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/12959
dc.relation.isPartOfInternational Journal of Communication
dc.rights(c) 2020 The Author/s
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
dc.subjectdigital democracy
dc.subjectfake news
dc.subjectfilter bubbles
dc.subjectecho chambers
dc.subjecthate speech
dc.subjectsurveillance
dc.subjectsurveillance capitalism
dc.titleAssessing Digital Threats to Democracy, and Workable Solutions: A Review of the Recent Literature
dc.typeJournal article
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