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Record Nr.

UNINA9910157530003321

Autore

Ibrahim Yasmin

Titolo

Politics, protest, and empowerment in digital spaces / / Yasmin Ibrahim, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hershey, PA : , : Information Science Reference, , [2017]

�2017

ISBN

9781522518631

9781522518624

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xix, 363 pages) : color illustrations

Collana

Advances in Electronic Government, Digital Divide, and Regional Development (AEGDDRD) Book Series, ; ; 2326-9111

Disciplina

320.014

Soggetti

Political participation - Technological innovations

Communication in politics - Technological innovations

Internet - Political aspects

Social media - Political aspects

Online social networks - Political aspects

Internet in political campaigns

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Premier reference source"--Cover.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Self and the relationship with the screen: interrogating the fictive and banal in self production / Yasmin Ibrahim -- Using the blogosphere to promote disputed diets: the Swedish low-carb high-fat movement / Christopher Holmberg -- Transmedia storytelling impact on government policy change / Renira Rampazzo Gambarato, Sergei Andreevich Medvedev -- The demobilizing potential of conflict for web and mobile political participation / Francis Dalisay, Matthew J. Kushin, Masahiro Yamamoto -- Political messaging in digital spaces: the case of Twitter in Mexico's presidential campaign / Rodrigo Sandoval-Almazan -- ICTs: ancillary tools for indirect democracy? / Kerill Dunne -- Towards a political theory of elearning / Celia Romm-Livermore, Pierluigi Rippa, Mahesh S. Raisinghani -- Challenging the de-politicization of food poverty: austerity food blogs / Anita Howarth -- Ubiquitous food imaging: food images as digital spectacle / Yasmin Ibrahim -- Developing and validating the "this is why we can't have nice



things scale": optimising political online communities for internet trolling / Jonathan Bishop -- Do campaigns "go negative" on Twitter? / Marija Bekafigo, Allison Clark Pingley -- When citizens in authoritarian states use Facebook for social ties but not political participation / Wairagala Wakabi -- Online free expression and its gatekeepers / Joanna Kulesza --

Exploring the counting of ballot papers using "delegated transferable vote": implications for local and national elections in the United Kingdom / Jonathan Bishop, Mark Beech -- Women can't win: gender irony and the e-politics of the biggest loser / Michael S. Bruner, Karissa Valine, Berenice Ceja -- Critical issues on gender equality and ICTs in Latin America / Aimée Vega Montiel -- Food photography, pixelated produce, and cameraless images: a photographic journey from Farmville to Kheti Badi / Aileen Blaney -- eLearning political strategies: a four act play / Celia Romm-Livermore, Mahesh S. Raisinghani, Pierluigi Rippa.

Sommario/riassunto

"[This book] is a comprehensive reference source for emerging scholarly perspectives on the use of new media technology to engage people in socially- and politically-oriented conversations and examines communication trends in these virtual environments. Highlighting relevant coverage across topics such as online free expression, political campaigning, and online blogging, this book is ideally designed for government officials, researchers, academics, graduate students, and practitioners interested in how new media is revolutionizing political and social communications"--Provided by publisher.