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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 uses of social media. Drawing together empirical
analyses of the use of social media by political movements and in
national and regional elections and referenda, The Routledge
Companion to Social Media and Politics presents studies ranging
from Anonymous and the Arab Spring to the Greek Aganaktismenoi, and
from South Korean presidential elections to the Scottish
independence referendum. The book is framed by a selection of
keystone theoretical contributions, evaluating and updating
existing frameworks for the social media age.
This book investigates the role of media and communication in
processes of democratization in different political and cultural
contexts. Struggles for democratic change are periods of intense
contest over the transformation of citizenship and the
reconfiguration of political power. These democratization conflicts
are played out within an increasingly complex media ecology where
traditional modes of communication merge with new digital networks,
thus bringing about multiple platforms for journalists and
political actors to promote and contest competing definitions of
reality. The volume draws on extensive case study research in South
Africa, Kenya, Egypt and Serbia to highlight the ambivalent role of
the media as force for democratic change, citizen empowerment, and
accountability, as well as driver of polarization, radicalization
and manipulation.
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 uses of social media. Drawing together empirical
analyses of the use of social media by political movements and in
national and regional elections and referenda, The Routledge
Companion to Social Media and Politics presents studies ranging
from Anonymous and the Arab Spring to the Greek Aganaktismenoi, and
from South Korean presidential elections to the Scottish
independence referendum. The book is framed by a selection of
keystone theoretical contributions, evaluating and updating
existing frameworks for the social media age.
This book investigates the role of media and communication in
processes of democratization in different political and cultural
contexts. Struggles for democratic change are periods of intense
contest over the transformation of citizenship and the
reconfiguration of political power. These democratization conflicts
are played out within an increasingly complex media ecology where
traditional modes of communication merge with new digital networks,
thus bringing about multiple platforms for journalists and
political actors to promote and contest competing definitions of
reality. The volume draws on extensive case study research in South
Africa, Kenya, Egypt and Serbia to highlight the ambivalent role of
the media as force for democratic change, citizen empowerment, and
accountability, as well as driver of polarization, radicalization
and manipulation.
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