The Autophagotic cycles and their role in digital citizen participation as an element of social depoliticization.

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the way in which digital citizen participation reconfigures the public space established simultaneously by both the State and informatic capitalism. We consider that, although a mechanism of fragmentation and individualization is observed, and with it an inclination towards the depoliticization of citizen participation, neither the State nor the digital instruments completely impose their reason. Based on their unique conditions of existence, agents implement practices that reconfigure public space. To illustrate the above, we turn to what is called autophagotic information cycles, which are an element of epistemic bubbles and media echo chambers. Methodologically, the analysis of legal discourse is used. The empirical basis was obtained from the portal of the Congress of the state of San Luis Potosí, as well as the official Facebook profile of the then representative of district VII, of the local capital. This phenomenon could be understood more as a cathartic mechanism resulting from current political processes, in which governmental and non governmental bodies of political interference and citizen participation are presented as elements foreign to the citizen, resulting in the individual having the possibility of participation through the writing and consumption of messages that serve more as an escape valve than as a mechanism for change and action.