Abstract
Internet has a great importance to organize our social and private lives. From this context, the text reflects on what margins the Internet leaves to exercise our rationality and freedom, considering fundamental rights of citizens, and based on the best principles of the ideal of the democratic model. It is based on what should be an ideal type of technology at the service of democratic values, which would be to use the Internet as a common good for citizens. In this sense, this text contains some interpretations of what would be a common space on the Internet; It would aim to strengthen a democracy circumscribed by the most basic principles of this political model. To make this analysis, the notions of rationality and freedom of Amartya Sen and Michel Foucault are used, from which one works to contrast two functions of democracy, one is more deliberative, is in line with the idea of the common good of Ostrom (2000), a democracy by discussion following Amartya Sen. The other is a democratic model with oligarchic touches, in a neoliberal economic context, more in a line of rationality linked to power relations, following Foucault. Freedom is important for both of them, based on the participation and critical behavior of the individual.
Highlights
This paper focuses its analysis on the functioning of the Internet, marked by economic interests, and even political ones
The fundamentals that result from the arguments issued by instances of power, that is, the information issued by renowned media on the Internet, can be counteracted by the critical attitude that the individual adopts against the imposed rationalities (Foucault, 1995: 7).This second rationality in Foucault is closely related to the practice of freedom
The Internet could function as an open space with free access, with active participation of citizens
Summary
This paper focuses its analysis on the functioning of the Internet, marked by economic interests, and even political ones. This reflection on freedom and rationality on the Internet, and by contrast, in a common space, is related to the meanings that Sen and Foucault give to their notions of freedom and rationality.
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