THE PRINCIPLE OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN THE UNIVERSE OF INFOCRACY

reflections based on the philosophy of Byung Chul Han

Abstract

This work aims to reflect on the scope of the principle of public participation in times of digital world. To this end, a bibliographic review methodology was used with the hypothetical-deductive method, based on the work of the philosopher Byung-Chul Han. The work is based on the hypothesis that there is a compromise in the principle of popular participation in the context of the digital world, which occurs due to the new structure of neoliberalism, which relies on the Infocracy system to maintain the status quo. In this sense, it is considered necessary to understand the mechanism of Infocracy in influencing and, consequently, weakening popular and collective formation, so that it is possible to denounce such mechanisms of self-exploitation of the society’s members.