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  • Protest and Democracy

    How Movement Parties, Social Movements and Active Citizens Are Reshaping Europe

    This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the interplay between protest and institutions during an era of multiple crises in Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania and the UK. Focusing on the interaction between citizens, social movements and movement parties, and questions of democratic quality related to participation, competition and responsiveness, it considers the role of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Understanding Movement Parties Through their Communication

    Edited by Dan Mercea, Lorenzo Mosca ...
    In many countries, movement parties have swayed large tracts of the electorate. Contributions to this edited book reflect on the place of movement parties in democratic politics through analyses of their communication. Reviewing evidence from several countries including cases from Europe, Australia and India where movement parties have gained ground in politics, this book illuminates the important ... Read more

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  • Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms

    This book addresses the question of how researchers can conduct independent, ethical research on mal-, mis- and disinformation in a rapidly changing and hostile data environment.The escalating issue of data access is thrown into sharp relief by the large-scale use of bots, trolls, fake news, and strategies of false amplification, the effects of which are difficult to quantify due to a corporate ... Read more

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  • Civic Participation in Contentious Politics

    The Digital Foreshadowing of Protest

    by Dan Mercea ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The book examines the highly dynamic communication ecology of recent contentious politics and its expanding digital footprint. First, it looks at the attainment of democratic citizenship through practice as street protests attract substantial numbers of followers who narrate their involvement or reflect on the claims and the implications of collective action on social media. Secondly, it considers ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Politics and the Internet in Comparative Context

    Views from the cloud

    Series series Routledge Research in Political Communication
    For many years now we have witnessed the developing use of the internet and associated technologies by political actors and organisations. Claims and counter claims have been made as its suitability as a tool to help in the struggle to re-invigorate political participation in democracies across the globe has been contested.This book charts the shifting sands of political activity in the digital ... Read more

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  • Social Media and Democracy

    Innovations in Participatory Politics

    Edited by Brian D. Loader, Dan Mercea ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Political Communication
    This book critically investigates the complex interaction between social media and contemporary democratic politics, and provides a grounded analysis of the emerging importance of Social media in civic engagement.Social media applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, have increasingly been adopted by politicians, political activists and social movements as a means to engage, organize ... Read more

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    by Terry Flew ...
    Series series Digital Media and Society
    We once thought of cyberspace as a borderless world. As the internet has become increasingly platformized, with a small number of technology giants that dominate the global digital economy, concerns about information monopolies, hateful online content, and the impact on media content creators and creative industries have become more marked. Consequently governments, politicians, and civil society ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics

    Series series Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions
    Social media are now widely used for political protests, campaigns, and communication in developed and developing nations, but available research has not yet paid sufficient attention to experiences beyond the US and UK. This collection tackles this imbalance head-on, compiling cutting-edge research across six continents to provide a comprehensive, global, up-to-date review of recent political ... Read more

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  • Digital Technology and Democratic Theory

    One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over—and upending—nearly every aspect of life. Work and leisure, family and friendship, community and citizenship have all been modified by now-ubiquitous digital tools and platforms. Digital Technology and Democratic Theory looks closely at one significant facet of our rapidly evolving digital ... Read more

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  • Optimising Emotions, Incubating Falsehoods

    How to Protect the Global Civic Body from Disinformation and Misinformation

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access book deconstructs the core features of online misinformation and disinformation. It finds that the optimisation of emotions for commercial and political gain is a primary cause of false information online. The chapters distil societal harms, evaluate solutions, and consider what must be done to strengthen societies as new biometric forms of emotion profiling emerge. Based on a ... Read more

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  • Fighting Poverty and Social Exclusion in the EU

    A Chance in Europe 2020

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare State
    In the field of anti-poverty policies, the interplay between the Europe 2020 overarching strategy and the 'Semester' have marked major discontinuity vis-à-vis the Open Method of Coordination for social protection and social inclusion (Social OMC) of the Lisbon phase. This book therefore asks whether and how Europe matters in the fight against poverty and social exclusion by assessing the emergence ... Read more

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  • Publicity and the Canadian State

    Critical Communications Perspectives

    Edited by Kirsten Kozolanka ...
    Publicity pervades our political and public culture, but little has been written that critically examines the basis of the modern Canadian “publicity state.” This collection is the first to focus on the central themes in the state’s relationship with publicity practices and the “permanent campaign,” the constant search by politicians and their strategists for popular consent. Central to this ... Read more

    $35.99 USD