clickocracy

English

Etymology

From click +‎ -ocracy, a neologism in the form of democracy.

Noun

clickocracy (plural clickocracies)

1. (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, published 2002, page 3:

     Owing to the 'clickocracy' of the Internet, a Web site can set up shop with a miniscule^[sic] budget and end up competing with the big guns.

   • 2008 April 1, Jose Antonio Vargas, “Campaign.USA: With the Internet Comes a New Political 'Clickocracy'”, in Washington Post:

     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, page 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.