Digital media have not only challenged the position of traditional structures of the public arena. Digital media have also led to the emergence of new structures hosting the contemporary public arena in digital communication environments. In this episode, we discuss some of the most pressing challenges raised by the digital extension of the public arena.

In this episode, we discuss the impact of digital media on one of the most important structures hosting the public arena, the news media.

Democratic societies need spaces in which people and political elites become visible to each other, develop shared agendas, and settle on collectively binding decisions. These spaces are the public arena.

In this episode, we will focus on how digitally enabled challenges fail and how to assess their legitimacy and impact on democracy.

In this episode, we will focus on digitally enabled challenges to political parties.

In this episode, we will focus on the mechanisms through wich digital media allow challenges to social institutions.

All over the world, we see people using digital media to question and challenge authorities, organizations, norms and behaviors they perceive as dysfunctional or unjust. Digital media are therefore an important element in the challenge of established social institutions, sometimes even enabling these challenges in the first place.

In this episode, we will be looking at how the uses of data and algorithms change journalism.

In this episode, we will be looking at how the uses of data and algorithms change political campaigning.

In this episode, we will talk about algorithms, what they are, how they work, and concerns they create once applied broadly and in scale across society.

In this and the following episodes, we will be talking about data and algorithms with a special focus on their uses in and effects on politics. In this episode, we start with data.

We continue our discussion about artificial intelligence and its impact on democracy. In this episode, we focus on AI's impact on equality and the competition between societies, some democratic, some not.

In this and the following episode, we will be talking about artificial intelligence and its impact on democracy. In this episode, we will start by discussing AI's role in elections and its impact on people's informational autonomy.

In this episode, we will be talking about the conditions for the successful application of artificial intelligence across different areas.

We encounter AIs daily, be it in the voice assistants in our homes and phones, through automation in our workplace, or as the drivers of policing or credit decisions. In this and the following episodes, we focus on the impact of AI on democracy.