08 - When Algorithms Polarise Democracy: Digital Media & Disinformation

How do digital platforms change not only what we communicate, but
the way democratic societies function? Using Brazil as a case
study, this episode explores algorithms, attention economies,
disinformation and moral polarisation – and how digital
communication can amplify authoritarian populism and weaken
shared spaces for democratic debate.


The episode accompanies Volume 3 of the Springer series Digital
Transformation and Innovation: AI and the Ethics of Innovation –
Responsibility in Practice.


Guest: Pedro de Almeida Pires Camargos, doctoral candidate in
Sociology at the University of São Paulo and co-author of the
chapter From Analogue to Digital Communication: Economic and
Moral Pressures on Functional Differentiation in the Brazilian
Context, together with Lucas Amato and Laurindo D. Minhoto.


Host: Kristina Bodrožić-Brnić, Institute Manager at the Institute
for Digital Transformation and Innovation (BSP Business and Law
School), Germany.


Book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-20638-1


Chapter – From Analogue to Digital Communication:
Economic and Moral Pressures on Functional Differentiation in the
Brazilian Context


https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-20638-1_3