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_id: '63076'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: This paper develops a new concept and framework for understanding resilient
    digital democracy in an age defined by polarisation, cascading crises, and the
    global rise of digital authoritarianism. It begins by tracing the concept of resilience
    from systems theory to social and political life, showing that resilience in democracy
    is not a mechanical property of systems but a dynamic, human-driven practice grounded
    in agency, resistance, and collective self-determination. The paper argues that
    with emerging challenges in the digital sphere, such as misinformation, surveillance
    capitalism, platform monopolies, deepfakes, and hybrid warfare, democracy can
    only endure if its digital dimensions are protected and transformed. Building
    on this foundation, the paper introduces a holistic approach to resilient digital
    democracy that spans environmental, technological, economic, political, and cultural
    domains, and advances strategies such as public-commons digital infrastructures,
    platform co-operatives, public service Internet platforms, free/libre open source
    software (FLOSS), participatory innovations, and hybrid offline/online democratic
    practices. The result is a fresh, interdisciplinary vision of how democracy can
    be reinvented in the digital age.
article_number: '387'
article_type: original
author:
- first_name: Christian
  full_name: Fuchs, Christian
  id: '21863'
  last_name: Fuchs
  orcid: 0000-0003-0589-4579
citation:
  ama: Fuchs C. What is and how do we Achieve a Resilient Digital Democracy? <i>Open
    Research Europe</i>. 2025;5. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.21988.2">10.12688/openreseurope.21988.2</a>
  apa: Fuchs, C. (2025). What is and how do we Achieve a Resilient Digital Democracy?
    <i>Open Research Europe</i>, <i>5</i>, Article 387. <a href="https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.21988.2">https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.21988.2</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Fuchs_2025, title={What is and how do we Achieve a Resilient Digital
    Democracy?}, volume={5}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.21988.2">10.12688/openreseurope.21988.2</a>},
    number={387}, journal={Open Research Europe}, publisher={F1000 Research Ltd},
    author={Fuchs, Christian}, year={2025} }'
  chicago: Fuchs, Christian. “What Is and How Do We Achieve a Resilient Digital Democracy?”
    <i>Open Research Europe</i> 5 (2025). <a href="https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.21988.2">https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.21988.2</a>.
  ieee: 'C. Fuchs, “What is and how do we Achieve a Resilient Digital Democracy?,”
    <i>Open Research Europe</i>, vol. 5, Art. no. 387, 2025, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.21988.2">10.12688/openreseurope.21988.2</a>.'
  mla: Fuchs, Christian. “What Is and How Do We Achieve a Resilient Digital Democracy?”
    <i>Open Research Europe</i>, vol. 5, 387, F1000 Research Ltd, 2025, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.21988.2">10.12688/openreseurope.21988.2</a>.
  short: C. Fuchs, Open Research Europe 5 (2025).
date_created: 2025-12-12T18:21:20Z
date_updated: 2026-02-23T20:51:40Z
department:
- _id: '136'
- _id: '11'
doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.21988.2
has_accepted_license: '1'
intvolume: '         5'
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.21988.2
oa: '1'
project:
- _id: '1397'
  name: INNOVAtive DEmocracy Through Digitalisation
publication: Open Research Europe
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 2732-5121
publication_status: published
publisher: F1000 Research Ltd
quality_controlled: '1'
status: public
title: What is and how do we Achieve a Resilient Digital Democracy?
type: journal_article
user_id: '21863'
volume: 5
year: '2025'
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