Last month in Raleigh North Carolina, there was a conference held to better engage citizens in democratic practices…by “bringing together national leaders in the fields of policy, technology, and design to discover new way forward for our democracy…” Firstly, the fact that the US is holding conferences to better their democratic regime is startling to me, considering they figure the US has the leading model of democracy. Perhaps, they measured democracies in several countries and found that their regime was far more dormant than those of the EU. Is citizens democratic practices dormant in the US because more american citizens vote for american idol than the presidential election? perhaps, perhaps though somewhere along the way, they measured that, Americans no longer actively participated in democracy, causing the us to be somewhat less democratic as of late. In fact the Institute of Emerging issues which held this conference created a twitter feed for american citizens to actively brainstorm new reforms for democracy…For some reason that appears really wrong to me, that you can tweet your opinion to a bureaucracy of the government about democracy… Is that where democracy is headed? to a place where political scientists measure democracy based on the number of votes they receive on twitter?

http://www.ncsu.edu/iei/index.php/news-events/redesigning-democracy-summit?utm_source=twitter%2B&utm_medium=tweet&utm_campaign=socialmedia

I read the twitter feed about redefining democracy, and something that came up, is if political agendas, elections should be accessible to citizens through social media, and to tweet policy agendas to keep democracy engaged…Interesting.