In our digital era, social media have emerged as key influential factors in policymaking.

Social media can engage vast numbers of citizens. As a result, it is of great importance to assess the extent to which they can improve democracy in Europe.

The EU-funded Technopolitics project proposes innovative research on the relationship between community engagement, political participation and digital social media in influencing policymaking.

Based on the engaged theory and applying a cross-disciplinary method, the project will investigate the influence exercised by digital technologies on citizens and politics and develop a theoretical scheme that will include good practices for democratisation to condition policymaking processes.

It will also transfer new knowledge of international impact to the European Research Council as well as the host institution, University of Seville.