Digital parties

Reimagination of the party structure through digital platforms. Populism via digitality. Strategic organising online.

emerging organisations such as Momentum, the Five Star Movement, Podemos, France Insoumise and many others as “digital parties”, or “platform parties,” […] these formations are transforming themselves, following the logic of the digital platforms of contemporary capitalism and mimicking operations like Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon.

– Momentum, Labour and the Rise of the Platform Party, Paolo Gerbaudo

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