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  • Digital Democracy, Social Media and Disinformation

    by Petros Iosifidis, Nicholas Nicoli ...
    Digital Democracy, Social Media and Disinformation discusses some of the political, regulatory and technological issues which arise from the increased power of internet intermediaries (such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube) and the impact of the spread of digital disinformation, especially in the midst of a health pandemic.The volume provides a detailed account of the main areas surrounding ... Read more

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  • Algorithms of Oppression

    How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

    by Safiya Umoja Noble ...
    A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithmsRun a Google search for “black girls”—what will you find? “Big Booty” and other sexually explicit terms are likely to come up as top search terms. But, if you type in “white girls,” the results are radically different. The suggested porn sites and un-moderated discussions about “why ... Read more

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  • The Net Delusion

    The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

    by Evgeny Morozov ...
    "The revolution will be Twittered!" declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran in June 2009. Yet for all the talk about the democratizing power of the Internet, regimes in Iran and China are as stable and repressive as ever. In fact, authoritarian governments are effectively using the Internet to suppress free speech, hone their surveillance techniques, disseminate cutting ... Read more

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  • Antisocial Media

    How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy

    by Siva Vaidhyanathan ...
    A fully updated paperback edition that includes coverage of the key developments of the past two years, including the political controversies that swirled around Facebook with increasing intensity in the Trump era. If you wanted to build a machine that would distribute propaganda to millions of people, distract them from important issues, energize hatred and bigotry, erode social trust, undermine ... Read more

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  • Censored

    Distraction and Diversion Inside China's Great Firewall

    by Margaret E. Roberts ...
    A groundbreaking and surprising look at contemporary censorship in ChinaAs authoritarian governments around the world develop sophisticated technologies for controlling information, many observers have predicted that these controls would be ineffective because they are easily thwarted and evaded by savvy Internet users. In Censored, Margaret Roberts demonstrates that even censorship that is easy ... Read more

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  • E-government in Europe

    Re-booting the State

    Edited by Paul G. Nixon, Vassiliki N. Koutrakou ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in European Politics
    This book traces the development of e-government and its applications across Europe, exploring the effects of information and communication technology (ICTs) upon political action and processes.Explores a range of concepts and topics underpinning e-government in Europe:the degree to which e-government translates into genuine reform of government and public administrationthe dual role of the EU as ... Read more

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  • Citizen Journalism

    Global Perspectives- Volume 2

    Edited by Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen ...
    Series Book 14 - Global Crises and the Media
    The second volume of Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, namely by: Offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2008, including the use of social media in crisis reporting; Providing a new set of case studies highlighting important instances of citizen reporting of crisis events in a complementary range ... Read more

    $49.09 USD

  • Misunderstanding the Internet

    by James Curran, Natalie Fenton, Des Freedman ...
    Series series Communication and Society
    The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more than 3 billion internet users across the globe, some 40 per cent of the world’s population. The internet’s meteoric rise is a phenomenon of enormous significance for the economic, political and social life of contemporary societies.However, much popular and academic writing about the internet continues to take a celebratory view, ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Digital Platforms, Imperialism and Political Culture

    by Dal Yong Jin ...
    Series series Routledge New Developments in Communication and Society Research
    In the networked twenty-first century, digital platforms have significantly influenced capital accumulation and digital culture. Platforms, such as social network sites (e.g. Facebook), search engines (e.g. Google), and smartphones (e.g. iPhone), are increasingly crucial because they function as major digital media intermediaries. Emerging companies in non-Western countries have created unique ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Chinese Cyber Nationalism

    Evolution, Characteristics, and Implications

    by Xu Wu ...
    Chinese Cyber Nationalism offers the first comprehensive examination of the social and ideological movement that mixes Confucian cultural traditions and advanced media technology. Over the past decade, the Internet has increasingly become a communication center, organizational platform, and channel of execution by which Chinese nationalistic causes have been promoted throughout the world. Dr. Xu ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Social Media, Politics and the State

    Protests, Revolutions, Riots, Crime and Policing in the Age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube

    Edited by Daniel Trottier, Christian Fuchs ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
    This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by social media scholars who explore the connection of social media with revolutions, uprising, protests, power and counter-power, hacktivism, the state, policing and surveillance. It shows how collective action and state power are related ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Cyber Racism and Community Resilience

    Strategies for Combating Online Race Hate

    by Yin Paradies, Kevin Dunn, Nasya Bahfen, Andrew Jakubowicz, Gail Mason, Karen Connelly, Ana-Maria Bliuc, Andre Oboler, Rosalie Atie ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book highlights cyber racism as an ever growing contemporary phenomenon. Its scope and impact reveals how the internet has escaped national governments, while its expansion is fuelling the spread of non-state actors. In response, the authors address the central question of this topic: What is to be done?Cyber Racism and Community Resilience demonstrates how the social sciences can be ... Read more

    $28.49 USD