Elon's Imagining the Internet Center partnered with the Pew Research Center to study perceptions of technology and its role in democracy by the year 2030.
Research by Elon’s Imagining the Internet Center was featured in a recent NiemanLab article about technology and its role in the future of democracy.
The article highlighted a Pew Research Center report – done in partnership with the Imagining the Internet Center – that focused on a survey asking hundreds of tech experts about how they see technology impacting democracy by 2030.
“If, on this Monday in an election year, you are hopeful that technology and the internet will improve democracy in the next decade, you’re in the minority,” the NiemanLab author wrote.
The research showed 49 percent of respondents said technology would “mostly weaken core aspects of democracy and democratic representation,” 33 percent said it would mostly strengthen democracy.
The Imagining the Internet Center’s mission is to explore and provide insights into emerging network innovations, global development, dynamics, diffusion and governance. Its research holds a mirror to humanity’s use of communications technologies, informs policy development, exposes potential futures and provides a historic record. It works to illuminate issues in order to serve the greater good, making its work public, free and open. The Imagining the Internet Center sponsors work that brings people together to share their visions for the future of communications and the future of the world.
Read the full Pew Research Center and Imagining the Internet Center report here, and find the entire NiemanLab article here.