Tag: Mor Rubenstein

The best of Democratic Audit’s 2014 coverage of democracy’s technological advance

The best of Democratic Audit’s 2014 coverage of democracy’s technological advance

Is the future of democracy digital? In 2014, Democratic Audit UK carried numerous pieces of analysis, research, and argument concerning the interplay between technology, politics, parties, and representation, with the best appearing below in the latest of our 2014 round-ups. Similar PostsSocial media may have the potential to truly enhance our democracy, but there is […]

Fahrenheit 404: Party attitudes to web archiving are a worrying sign for digital-era democracy

Fahrenheit 404: Party attitudes to web archiving are a worrying sign for digital-era democracy

November of last year saw a spate of “cyber-revisionism” by both Labour and the Tories as the parties attempted to erase archived material from their websites and, in the Conservative case, from the wider web. To Josh Cowls and Mor Rubenstein this revelation is just another particularly pronounced example of the actual experience of political parties on the internet […]