clickocracy
English
Etymology
click + -ocracy, a neologism in the form of democracy.
Noun
clickocracy (plural clickocracies)
- (neologism) the role of the internet and algorithmic media in elections and governance.
- 2002, Matt Haig, How Come You Don't Have an E-business Strategy?: The Essential Guide to Online Business, Kogan Page Publishers, 2002. Page 3
- Owing to the 'clickocracy' of the Internet, a Web site can set up shop with a miniscule budget and end up competing with the big guns.
- 2008, Jose Antonio Vargas, "Campaign.USA: With the Internet Comes a New Political 'Clickocracy'," Washington Post, April 1, 2008
- Like it or not, we now belong to a clickocracy -- one nation under Google, with video and e-mail for all.
- 2012, Michael Schudson and Katherine Fink, "The Algorithm Method: Making news decisions in a clickocracy," Columbia Journalism Review, January/February 2012
- To be sure, algorithmic media also require audience participation—but only in an automated, aggregated clickocracy.
- 2013, Justin Cash, The Rise of Clickocracy: Politics for a Digital Age, Lulu. (p. 143)
- Also, and rather critically, in the new world of clickocracy, "my vote doesn't make a difference" makes the erroneous assumption that voting is the only expression of political will now available to us.
- 2002, Matt Haig, How Come You Don't Have an E-business Strategy?: The Essential Guide to Online Business, Kogan Page Publishers, 2002. Page 3