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Subject(s)

• Technology—Social aspects [Browse]
• Technology and state [Browse]
• Technology—Political aspects [Browse]

Editor

• Ceron, Andrea [Browse]

Publisher

• Edward Elgar Publishing [Browse]

Series

Elgar encyclopedias in the social sciences series

Summary note

"The Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics is a landmark resource that offers a comprehensive overview of the ways in which technological development is reshaping politics. Providing an unparalleled starting point for research, it addresses all the major contemporary aspects of the field. Divided into five thematic parts, the Encyclopedia investigates the existing academic literature on the main subfields in this area, before introducing innovative digital research methods. It then highlights the pivotal political and non-political actors leading the process of technological innovation, clarifies key concepts and terms in the field, and finally covers emerging and debated topics. This Encyclopedia will be particularly invaluable for early career researchers and advanced students in politics looking for a concise entry point into any of the various ways in which technology shapes the field. It will also be useful for practitioners to familiarise themselves with the analytical opportunities provided by computational social and political sciences. Key Features: - Entries written by over 90 scholars from 33 different countries on 5 continents - Accessible starting point for research into the key literature, topics and debates in the field - Introduces important new digital methods such as machine learning, text analysis and network analysis - Defines and clarifies the meaning of contested terms such as disinformation, echo chambers and fake news"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print record.

Contents

• Contents: Part I: Subjects and subfields agenda-setting research in the age of social media / Porismita Borah and Yan Su
• Clicktivism, slacktivism and connective action / Max Halupka
• Cybersecurity / Tobias Liebetrau and Linda Monsees
• Digitally networked protests / Dan Mercea
• E-campaigning and elections / Jörg Haßler
• E-democracy / Emiliana De Blasio
• Electoral predictions from social media data / Marko M. Skoric and Kokil Jaidka
• Internet and political participation / Shelley Boulianne and Stephanie Belland
• Nowcasting and forecasting with big data / Amparo Blazquez-Soriano and Rosmery Ramos-Sandoval
• Populism and social media / Peter Maurer
• Social media and autocracy / Tamara Grechanaya
• Social media and political trust / Christopher Starke
• Social media and public health / Francesca Greco and Guido Giarelli
• Social media revolution versus normalization / Joachim Åström and Martin Karlsson
• Social tv and second screen / Fabio Giglietto
• Terrorism and online extremism / Fatima Zahrah and Jason R. C. Nurse
• Violence, conflict, war and social media / Eleonora Mattiacci
• Part II: Methods
• Digital trace data analysis / Luca Corchia
• Technicity-of-the-mediums / Janna Joceli Omena
• Data collection: Apis and scraping / Marius Sältzer and Aleksandra Butneva
• Audio as data / Ludovic Rheault and Sophie Borwein
• Image as data and visual methods / Uta Russmann and Anastasia Veneti
• Text as data / Kohei Watanabe
• Scaling models in political science / Daniel Braby, Benjamin Guinaudeau and Marius Sältzer
• Sentiment analysis and opinion mining / Francesca Greco
• Topic models / Theresa Gessler
• Mobile positioning data / Anu Masso, Siiri Silm and Olle Järv
• Machine learning and deep learning / David Muchlinski
• Qualitative methods / Lucia Bainotti
• Digital ethnography / Alessandro Caliandro
• Social network analysis / Katherine Ognyanova
• Part III: Actors
• Activated public opinion / Andrea Ceron
• Algorithm, machine learning and artificial intelligence / Andrea Ferrario and Michele Loi
• Bots / Rose Marie Santini and Débora Salles
• Digital advocacy / Gabriella Scaramuzzino
• Digital parties / Linn Sandberg
• Fact-checking / Camille J. Saucier and Nathan Walter
• Hacktivists / Marco Deseriis
• Hyperleaders / Roberta Bracciale
• Political influencers / Andreu Casero-Ripollés
• Social media analytics companies / Ivan Manokha
• Trolls / Andreas Birkbak and Yevgeniy Golovchenko
• Voting advice applications / Bastiaan Bruinsma
• Wikileaks and whistleblowers / Meghan Van Portfliet and Kate Kenny
• Part IV: Core keywords
• Big data / Nathan TeBlunthuis
• Censorship online / Tamara Grechanaya
• Data journalism / Sergio Splendore
• Deep web and dark web / Robert W. Gehl
• Digital public sphere / Lidia Valera-Ordaz
• Disinformation / Margherita Bordignon and Giovanni Pagano
• Echo chambers / Daniel Stegmann, Birgit Stark and Melanie Magin
• Fake news / Jana Laura Egelhofer and Jakob-Moritz
• Eberl
• Filter bubbles / Daniel Stegmann, Melanie Magin and Birgit Stark
• Hashtag politics / Janna Joceli Omena
• Microtargeting / Mathieu Lavigne
• Misinformation / Margherita Bordignon and Giovanni Pagano
• (non-)representativeness of social media data / Melanie Magin
• Online political hostility / Linn Sandberg and Anamaria Dutceac Segesten
• Open data / Irene Nonyelum Azogu and Justin Longo
• Post-truth / Jakob-Moritz Eberl and Jana Laura Egelhofer
• Viral political marketing / Márton Bene
• Wisdom of crowds / Fabio Franch
• Part V: Debated and emerging
• Topics
• Apps and politics / David B. Nieborg and Kaushar Mahetaji
• Computational propaganda effects / Rose Marie Santini, Débora Salles, Lorena Lucas Regattieri and Carlos Eduardo Barros
• Conspiracy theories on social media / Edward Hurcombe
• Coordinated inauthentic behavior / Fabio Giglietto
• Crypto-politics / Linda Monsees
• Data doxa / Gavin John Douglas Smith
• Digital movement of opinion / Mauro Barisione
• Digital surveillance / Kathleen Kuehn
• Election manipulation and interference / Amelie Henle and Samantha Bradshaw
• Gamification in politics / Michael Bossetta
• Meme politics / Giulia Giorgi and Ilir Rama
• Online sources for journalism / Sergio Splendore
• Platform labor and digital labor / Alessandro Gandini
• Robots and politics / Ryan David Kiggins
• Sentiment democracy / Andrea Ceron
• Twiplomacy / Maja Šimunjak
• Index.

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ISBN

9781800374263 (e-book)

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