Design of Digital Democracy

Gianluca Sgueo, PhD administrative law (University of Salento, Italy) and LLM in European Public Law (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens – European Public Law Academy, Greece) is Professor in Digital Democracy in Public Spaces at the École d’Affaires Publiques of Sciences Po, Senior Associate Researcher at the Centre for Digitalization, Democracy and Innovation of the Brussels School of Governance, and Associate Researcher at the Centro de Estudos Sociais of the University of Coimbra. He is also Coordinator of the Department on Digitalization at Fondazione Einaudi, and Policy Advisor at the Department of Digital Transformation of the Italian Government. His publications include ‘Beyond Networks. Civil society coalitions, the European and global legal orders’ (Springer, 2016); ‘Games, Powers & Democracies’ (Bocconi University Press, 2018); ‘Il divario. I servizi pubblici digitali tra aspettative e realtà’ (Egea, 2022).

• Chapter 1. Introductory remarks. When did we start caring about digital aesthetics?.- Chapter 2. The Aesthetics of Consumer Tech.- Chapter 3. Digital aesthetics in the public sphere.- Chapter 4. The digital undemocratic: dazzling expectations vs disappointing outcomes.- Chapter 5. Re-conceptualizing the aesthetics of digital democracy.