[Week 9_1] How about information against democracy?

In this book, Mimber talks about how major information technology changes brought about particular aspects of the democratic political systems, such as majoritarian, interest-group, market-driven, and post-bureaucratic ones. A valuable insight indeed, if we consider the fact that the information flow has always been a huge factor on how people organize themselves to make make political decisions.

The author is careful in making bold statements. He wants to avoid both technological determinism and social construction by simply not jumping into those. However, he has a strong opinion that the information technology has contributed to some forms of democracy. I wonder what he would say of instances and forces that are to the opposite: information technologies contributing to political stupidification of the individual, government control over the masses and so on. Although even those things are also conducted on the premise of democracy, it leads to less power of the people in general. I hope there are some answers to this in the latter half.