Pluralismo ou privilégio Participação e mediação re-elitizadas
Keywords:
democracy, political participation, social virtual networks, social mediaAbstract
A great deal of the contemporary scientific knowledge production presents technology as an independent variable in processes of civic participation of political nature. It is for that significant part of the analysis and proposals presented in this subject that an alternative, pragmatic, view of the theory of the elites should be offered: that a organized smaller social groups of web users, from the vantage
point of their privileged position, command/transform society. In this way, what begins as a project of alleged replanting of the political system becomes the recognition of its impracticability. Based on data resulting from the Sociedade em Rede projects of 2003 and 2013, this article intends to show that the availability of virtual spaces for civic political participation did not translate neither into greater equality in it, nor in reducing pre-existing limits and conditions of participation or explaining the factors underlying it. As such, one of the main dimensions to be considered in this context is the prevalence of the action of elites, resorting to an elitist competitive democratic theory, of explanatory potential much superior.
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