Short description:

This thoroughly revised second edition Handbook examines the latest knowledge and perspectives on digital politics. Leading scholars explore the expansion of digital technologies, channels and styles as it shapes political dynamics.

Long description:

This thoroughly revised second edition Handbook examines the latest knowledge and perspectives on digital politics. Through new content on digital populism, filter bubbles, algorithmic power, AI, non-Western digital politics, election communication regulation and right-wing alternative news media, contributors challenge the binary of cyber-optimism and cyber-pessimism and argue for a more nuanced understanding of political change.

Arranged around key themes, this Handbook investigates the meaning of digital politics and analyses the impact of new technologies and platforms on politics. Chapters consider the digital reconfiguration of civic practices, political institutions and journalism. Leading scholars provide original, incisive and provocative insights into cutting-edge issues, exploring how the expansion of digital technologies, channels and styles shapes political dynamics.

Providing a broad and in-depth overview of digital politics, this Handbook will be an invaluable resource for researchers, educators and students of politics, media and communication studies, journalism, technology and governance. It will also be essential reading for political practitioners, policy-makers and strategists seeking to better understand the digital world.

BlackOutTuesday: collective action
on Instagram 331
Elena Sotelo-Prol
23 Post-Soviet digital democratization experiments: the promise
and reality 346
Yuri Misnikov

PART V POLITICAL PARTIES, LEADERS AND GOVERNANCE
24 The digital performance of populism 362
Thomas Wellings and Lone Sorensen
25 Political communication about data 380
Brendan Lawson
26 Regulation of election communication 393
Damian Tambini

PART VI JOURNALISM, APPARENT JOURNALISM AND
MEDIA INSTITUTIONS
27 Social media as resources for journalistic struggle in politically
restrictive settings 410
Banafsheh Ranji
28 Fake news and digital politics 424
Bente Kalsnes
29 Right-wing alternative news media and digital politics 436
Kristoffer Holt
30 Research on the political implications of political entertainment 449
Michael A. Xenos

Index

Table of Contents:

Contents:

Introduction to the Handbook of Digital Politics (Second Edition) xi
Stephen Coleman and Lone Sorensen

PART I WAYS OF SEEING, LISTENING TO AND WRITING
ABOUT DIGITAL POLITICS
1 A rhetoric of digital politics 2
Stephen Coleman and Lone Sorensen
2 De-Westernizing digital politics: a Global South viewpoint 15
Bruce Mutsvairo, Fabíola Ortiz dos Santos and Tenford Chitanana
3 Visual digital politics: imag(in)ing political activities and
identities online 29
Katy Parry
4 Revolution vs reaction: the role of social media in
authoritarian regimes 43
Anna Litvinenko
5 Transnational and global flows of political discussion online 56
Yuan Zeng

PART II CITIZENSHIP AND POLITICAL TALK
6 The Internet as a civic space 73
Peter Dahlgren
7 Political filter bubbles and fragmented publics 88
Cristian Vaccari and Augusto Valeriani
8 Computational approaches to online political expression:
a framework for research 106
Mengyu Li, Luhang Sun, Yiming Wang, Yibing Sun, Hyerin Kwon,
Jiyoun Suk, JungHwan Yang and Dhavan V. Shah
9 Creating spaces for online deliberation 132
Christopher Birchall and Stephen Coleman
10 New frontiers in two-screen politics 150
Nick Anstead and Ben O?Loughlin
11 Gen Z?s civic engagement: news use, politics, and cultural
engagement 163
Ava Francesca Battocchio, Chris Wells, Emily Vraga, Kjerstin
Thorson, Stephanie Edgerly and Leticia Bode
12 Gen Z?s civic engagement: civic skills, political expression,
and identity 175
Ava Francesca Battocchio, Leticia Bode, Chris Wells, Emily Vraga,
Kjerstin Thorson and Stephanie Edgerly

PART III TECHNOLOGY AND PLATFORMS
13 Becoming eventful through data: the mediated construction of
historic events in the age of data 189
Heather Ford
14 Algorithms, power and digital politics 202
Ulrike Klinger
15 Social media digital architectures: a platform-first approach to
political communication and participation 219
Michael Bossetta
16 Artificial intelligence in politics 235
Leah Henrickson
17 Online content moderation during conflict 252
Giovanni De Gregorio and Nicole Stremlau

PART IV CONTENTIOUS POLITICS, CIVIL AND
NETWORKED SOCIETY
18 The Fifth Estate: a new source of democratic accountability 265
William H. Dutton and Elizabeth Dubois
19 The logic of connective action: digital media and the
personalization of contentious politics 280
W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg
20 Media ecologies, social movements and activism 306
Emiliano Treré
21 E-petitioning and changing state?citizen engagement 320
Scott Wright and Ariadne Vromen
22 From Valencia filters to