Overview
- Explores how digital media intersect conventional and non-conventional political participation dynamics
- Analyses the extent to which Web 2.0 is strengthening the political role played by citizens
- Presents case studies of disintermediation within conventional and non-conventional political participation contexts
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Framework: Towards a Disintermediated Politics?
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Disintermediation in Social Networks
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Back Matter
Keywords
- political communication
- public opinion
- digital media
- political participation
- disintermediation
- social network analysis
- big data
- social movements
- public sphere
- representation
- connective action
- polarization
- incivility
- flaming
- Podemos
- #BlackLivesMatter
- #BringBackOurGirls
- US electoral campaign 2016
- Spanish electoral campaign 2016
- democracy
About this book
This book explores the changes in political communication in light of the development of a public opinion mediated by web 2.0 technologies. One of the most important changes in political communication is related to the process of disintermediation, i.e. the process by which digital technologies allow citizens to compete in the public space with those agents who, traditionally, co-opted public opinion. However, while disintermediation has undeniably generated a number of advances, having linked citizens to the public debate, the authors highlight some aspects where disintermediation is moving away from a rational and inclusive public space. They argue that these aspects, related to the immediacy, polarization and incivility of the communication, obscure the possibilities for democratization of digital political communication.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
José Manuel Robles-Morales is a lecturer at the Sociology III Department at Complutense University, Spain. His research focuses on digital political participation, digital political theory, and technological differences (digital divide). His publications have appeared in journals such as Information Communication and Society, The European Journal of Communication Research, Revista Internacional de Sociología and Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas.
Ana María Córdoba-Hernández is Research and Faculty Head at the Faculty of Communication at the University of La Sabana, Colombia. Her research focuses on media, specifically in the context of international communication, digital political participation, the transformation of the network society and the analysis of socio-political phenomena across social networks.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Digital Political Participation, Social Networks and Big Data
Book Subtitle: Disintermediation in the Era of Web 2.0
Authors: José Manuel Robles-Morales, Ana María Córdoba-Hernández
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27757-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27756-7Published: 01 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-27759-8Published: 01 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-27757-4Published: 18 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 151
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Digital/New Media, Political Communication, Democracy, Political Sociology, Social Media, Big Data