Internet Democracy And Social Change
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| Author | : Vikas Kumar |
| Publisher | : IGI Global |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 2015-06-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1466685034 |
Life in the digital era offers an array of new and invigorating opportunities, as well as a new set of challenges when facing the dissemination of fresh innovations. While once reserved for personal use, online platforms are now being utilized for more critical purposes, such as ocial revolution, political influence, and governance at both the local and national levels. Promoting Social Changes and Democracy through Information Technology is a definitive reference source for the latest scholarly research on the use of the internet, mobile phones, and other digital platforms for political discourse between citizens and governments. Focusing on empirical case studies and pivotal theoretical applications of technology within political science and social activism, this comprehensive book is an essential reference source for advanced-level students, researchers, practitioners, and academicians interested in the changing landscape of democratic development and social welfare.
| Author | : Nathaniel Persily |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2020-09-03 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1108835554 |
A state-of-the-art account of what we know and do not know about the effects of digital technology on democracy.
| Author | : Carmit Wiesslitz |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 183 |
| Release | : 2019-04-19 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1498539793 |
What role does the Internet play in the activities of organizations for social change? This book examines to what extent the democratic potential ascribed to the Internet is realized in practice, and how civil society organizations exploit the unique features of the Internet to attain their goals. This is the story of the organization members’ outlooks and impressions of digital platforms’ role as tools for social change; a story that debunks a common myth about the Internet and collective action. In a time when social media are credited with immense power in generating social change, this book serves as an important reminder that reality for activists and social change organizations is more complicated. Thus, the book sheds light on the back stage of social change organizations’ operations as they struggle to gain visibility in the infinite sea of civil groups competing for attention in the online public sphere. While many studies focus on the performative dimension of collective action (such as protests), this book highlights the challenges of these organizations’ mundane routines. Using a unique analytical perspective based on a structural-organizational approach, and a longitudinal study that utilizes a decade worth of data related to the specific case of Israel and its highly conflicted and turbulent society, the book makes a significant contribution to study of new media and to theories of Internet, democracy, and social change.
| Author | : Kumar, Vikas |
| Publisher | : IGI Global |
| Total Pages | : 384 |
| Release | : 2019-11-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1799817938 |
Social media has emerged as a powerful tool that reaches a wide audience with minimum time and effort. It has a diverse role in society and human life and can boost the visibility of information that allows citizens the ability to play a vital role in creating and fostering social change. This practice can have both positive and negative consequences on society. Examining the Roles of IT and Social Media in Democratic Development and Social Change is a collection of innovative research on the methods and applications of social media within community development and democracy. While highlighting topics including information capitalism, ethical issues, and e-governance, this book is ideally designed for social workers, politicians, public administrators, sociologists, journalists, policymakers, government administrators, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on social advancement and change through social media and technology.
| Author | : Jan A.G.M. van Dijk |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 336 |
| Release | : 2018-05-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1351110691 |
A seminal shift has taken place in the relationship between Internet usage and politics. At the turn of the century, it was presumed that digital communication would produce many positive political effects like improvements to political information retrieval, support for public debate and community formation or even enhancements in citizen participation in political decision-making. While there have been positive effects, negative effects have also occurred including fake news and other political disinformation, social media appropriation by terrorists and extremists, ‘echo-chambers’ and "filter bubbles", elections influenced by hostile hackers and campaign manipulation by micro-targeting marketing. It is time for critical re-evaluation. Designed to encourage critical thinking on the part of the student, internationally recognized experts, Jan A.G.M. van Dijk and Kenneth Hacker, chronicle the political significance of new communication technologies for the promotion of democracy over the last two decades. Drawing upon structuration theory and network theory and real-world case studies from across the globe, the book is logically structured around the following topics: Political Participation and Inclusion Habermas and the Reconstruction of Public Space Media and Democracy in Authoritarian States Democracy and the Internet in China E-government and democracy Views of democracy and Internet use Underpinned by up-to-date literature, this important textbook is aimed at students and scholars of communication studies, political science, sociology, political communication, and international relations.
| Author | : Lucy Bernholz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2021-02-26 |
| Genre | : Computer networks |
| ISBN | : 9780226748436 |
Democracy and the digital public sphere /Joshua Cohen and Archon Fung --Open democracy and digital t echnologies /Hélène Landemore --Purpose-Built digital associations /Lucy Bernholz --Digital exclusion: a politics of refusal /Seeta Peña Gangadharan --Presence of absence: exploring the democratic significance of silence /Mike Ananny --The artisan and the decision factory: the organizational dynamics of private speech governance /Robyn Caplan --The democratic consequences of the new public sphere /Henry Farrell and Melissa Schwartzberg --Democratic societal collaboration in a whitewater world /David Lee, Margaret Levi, and John Seely Brown --From philanthropy to democracy: rethinking governance and funding of high-quality news in the digital age /Julia Cagé --Technologizing democracy or democratizing technology? A layered-architecture perspective on potentials and challenges /Bryan Ford.
| Author | : Robert W. McChesney |
| Publisher | : New Press, The |
| Total Pages | : 319 |
| Release | : 2013-03-05 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1595588914 |
Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet's effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship between economic power and the digital world. McChesney's award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy skewered the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information is a democratic one. In Digital Disconnect McChesney returns to this provocative thesis in light of the advances of the digital age, incorporating capitalism into the heart of his analysis. He argues that the sharp decline in the enforcement of antitrust violations, the increase in patents on digital technology and proprietary systems, and other policies and massive indirect subsidies have made the Internet a place of numbing commercialism. A small handful of monopolies now dominate the political economy, from Google, which garners an astonishing 97 percent share of the mobile search market, to Microsoft, whose operating system is used by over 90 percent of the world's computers. This capitalistic colonization of the Internet has spurred the collapse of credible journalism, and made the Internet an unparalleled apparatus for government and corporate surveillance, and a disturbingly anti-democratic force. In Digital Disconnect Robert McChesney offers a groundbreaking analysis and critique of the Internet, urging us to reclaim the democratizing potential of the digital revolution while we still can.
| Author | : Petros Iosifidis |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2020-12-30 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1000299783 |
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 digital democracy, disinformation and fake news, freedom of expression and post-truth politics. It addresses the major theoretical and regulatory concepts of digital democracy and the ‘network society’ before offering potential socio-political and technological solutions to the fight against disinformation and fake news. These solutions include self-regulation, rebuttals and myth-busting, news literacy, policy recommendations, awareness and communication strategies and the potential of recent technologies such as the blockchain and public interest algorithms to counter disinformation. After addressing what has currently been done to combat disinformation and fake news, the volume argues that digital disinformation needs to be identified as a multifaceted problem, one that requires multiple approaches to resolve. Governments, regulators, think tanks, the academy and technology providers need to take more steps to better shape the next internet with as little digital disinformation as possible by means of a regional analysis. In this context, two cases concerning Russia and Ukraine are presented regarding disinformation and the ways it was handled. Written in a clear and direct style, this volume will appeal to students and researchers within the social sciences, computer science, law and business studies, as well as policy makers engaged in combating what constitutes one of the most pressing issues of the digital age.
| Author | : Barry N. Hague |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2005-06-27 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 1134642431 |
Considers how technological developments might combine with underlying social, economic and political issues to produce new vehicles for democratic practice.
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| Publisher | : Information Science Reference |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
| Genre | : Information technology |
| ISBN | : 9781466685048 |
"This book is a definitive reference source for the latest scholarly research on the use of the internet, mobile phones, and other digital platforms for political discourse between citizens and governments"--
