Where Will Technology Take Us? Choosing Between Digital Polyarchy, Digital Authoritarianism, and Digital Anarchy

Abstract

One of the crucial problems of political science is the balance between civil society and the state. But we must analyze which factor can change it. Today it becomes technology development. New technologies give advantages to the state and society at the same time. The state gets an opportunity to control citizens: their movements, viewed internet content, purchases. However, society also has new forms of control over the state too. Сitizens are embedded in the decisionmaking system. We see new methods of communication, the phenomenon of citizen journalism. Social networks are becoming transmitters of public sentiment and elements of civil control. The society also forms a requirement of the transformation of capitalism, insisting that business must proceed from the priority of social values but not of profit but.