Social media and democracy : innovations in participatory politics

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Loader, Brian , 1958- (Author), Mercea, Dan , 1980- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge , c2012
Series:Routledge research in political communication 6
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Networking democracy? social media innovations in participatory politics
  • 2. Digital media and the personalization of collective action : social technology and the organization of protests against the global economic crisis
  • 3. Communication in movement : social movements as agents of participatory democracy
  • 4. Poverty in the news : a framing analysis of coverage in Canada and the United Kingdom
  • 5. The news media as networked political actors : how Italian media are reclaiming political ground by harnessing online participation
  • 6. Trust, confidence, credibility : citizen responses on Twitter to opinion polls during the 2010 UK general election
  • 7. What the hash tag? a content analysis of Canadian politics on Twitter
  • 8. The political competence of internet participants : evidence from Finland
  • 9. Reaching citizens online : how youth organizations are evolving their web presence
  • 10. Online youth civic attitudes and the limits of civic consumerism : the emerging challenge to the internet's democratic potential
  • 11. Constructing Australian youth online : empowered but dutiful citizens?
  • 12. Online participation : new forms of civic and political engagement or just new opportunities for networked individualism
  • 13. How the internet is giving birth (to) a new social order