democratization
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- noun
- /dɪˌmɒkrətaɪˈzeɪʃən/
- One significant outcome of the democratization of technology is that everyone can now create and share their own content online.
- the democratization of education
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Watch on YouTubeSo there's been a democratisation of, of news right now.
- So there's been a democratisation of, of news right now.
- And, you know, it that that's that democratization of information, you know, had not been brought to the market before.
- So the democratization of knowledge and the spread, the speed of spread of knowledge is what defines, I think the human inheritance pattern.
- But I do believe in the democratization of art and that art should be more accessible and that elite ideas don't need to be just for the elite.
- And so very likely the idea of this democratisation of the good stuff probably comes from that.
- But conversely, I think because the barriers to entry are lower now and it's kind of been, there's been a democratization to like getting in the game.
- I think in the toxic swirl of social media, it's more amplified and there are there's more sort of democratization around participating in it perhaps.
- The, the, the, the point of democratization for us and data empowering is not to displace anyone.
- And I think that as we start to decouple that and there's other options, that creates the more democratization, if you will.
Examples
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So the democratization of knowledge and the spread, the speed of spread of knowledge is what defines, I think the human inheritance pattern.
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John Gruber discussed last week on his podcast, The Talk Show, the democratization of services thanks to the Internet.
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So that brings us to what I said was the democratization of finance.
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The democratization of communications, the theory goes, will bring about the democratization of the world.
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One of the issues involved in the new social situation is the possibility of a democratization of communication.
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One of the main promises was massive democratization of access to higher education, which has not actually happened.
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And the democratization of the web is being embraced by large law firms.
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Look, each of us in our pockets right now have a device that proves the ultimate democratization of information.
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XBRL is vital in the democratization of markets.
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But I do believe in the democratization of art and that art should be more accessible and that elite ideas don't need to be just for the elite.
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Morphology
democratization = democratize (transparent) = democrat + ize + ation
Formed from 'democratize' + '-ation' to indicate the process; the extension to 'making accessible to everyone' is a generalization of 'making democratic' but remains inferable.
Etymology
The word democratization comes from the word democracy, which has the root demos meaning 'the people', and the ending -ization meaning 'the process of making'. So democratization can mean making something available or open to many people, for example when technology or education is shared with everyone.