Digitizing Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Schapals, Aljosha Karim; Mcnair, Brian; Bruns, Axel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

What are the key challenges facing our increasingly digitized democracy, and how might we as citizens contribute to resolving them? This book explores these questions, combining work from media studies, journalism studies and political science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351054843
• Artikelnr.: 56504000

Autorenporträt

Aljosha Karim Schapals is a Lecturer in Journalism and Political Communication at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Research Associate in the "Journalism beyond the Crisis" project funded by the Australian Research Council. Axel Bruns is a Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. His latest book is Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere. Brian McNair is the author of many books and essays on journalism, including Fake News (Routledge, 2018), Introduction to Political Communication (6th edition, Routledge, 2017), and Communication and Political Crisis (Peter Lang, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Politics and Government
1. Fake News and Democratic Culture
(Brian McNair)
2. Mapping pressures on the 'sensible centre'/consensual model of liberal
democracy (Eric Louw)
3. Surround-sound elections: campaigning in a fast-evolving digital media
environment
(Edwina Throsby)
4. From 'Crush the Saboteurs' to 'Coalition of Crackpots': The role of the
partisan 'Tory' press and the power of alternative media during Brexit and
#GE17
(Aljosha Karim Schapals)
5. Shifting Conceptions of Voice in Citizen-Government Interactions Using
Digital Media in Indonesian Local Democracy
(Terry Flew & Rido Panjaitan)
Part II: News and Journalism
6. Journalism as an advocate for social change and public engagement:
Reporting environmental crisis in the digital era
(Susan Forde)
7. Mining the depleted 'rivers of gold': Public notices and the
sustainability of Australian local news in a digitized democracy
(Kristy Hess)
8. Journalism and democracy in the network society
(Amanda Gearing)
9. "Cloudy with a chance of sh!tstorm": Examining the role of social news
outlets in the Hack Live: Is Male Privilege Bullsh!t? social media ritual
(Edward Hurcombe)
Part III: Digital Societies
10. Digital Public Spheres in Australia
(Axel Bruns)
11. Beyond Deficit Discourse: Reframing Debate in Indigenous Education
(Kerry McCallum, Lisa Waller & Tanja Dreher)
12. The role of social media during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution: A real
catalyst, or merely a facilitating factor?
(Aljosha Karim Schapals)
13. IndigenousX: unencumbered, connected
(Sandra Phillips, Sandy O'Sullivan, Luke Pearson)
Part IV: New Visions
14. Digital bullets wound traditions of politics and the media
(David Fagan)
15. The Era of Mega-Leaks
(Rodney Tiffen)
16. The Unfinished Robots Revolution: Ten tips for humans
(John Keane)