The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Democracy

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-76208-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 490 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions

A comprehensive collection that offers an overview of digital technologies and democratic practice, this Companion explores the topic of digital media and democracy from a historically rich and socio-culturally broad perspective.

Edited by one of the foremost leaders in the field, Zizi Papacharissi, this cutting-edge collection outlines the current state of theory and research in the field and maps out trajectories for future scholarship and study. Contributors explore how a variety of digital technologies afford democratic practices, examine different genres of social media, consider networked platforms, contemplate the ways in which platforms are presently morphing into mediascapes of the future, including related issues such as algorithmic bias, data justice, predatory practices online and the role of AI, as well as other digitally enabled behaviors that often liberate and confine at the same time. Championing global and cross-cultural diversity and complexity throughout, the Companion highlights the lessons learned from the technologies of the past, the challenges presented by contemporary and future technologies, and imagines new democratic practices and digital tropes of participation that may emerge in the future.

Essential reading for students and scholars interested in the impact of digital media and technology upon politics and public life.

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Papacharissi, Zizi

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

LIST OF FIGURES

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

Zizi Papacharissi

FOUNDATIONS & THEORY

2. TOGETHER WE CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS: UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS TO SHAPE DEMOCRATIC DELIBERATIONS

Brooke Foucault Welles, Sagar Kumar and Sharaj Kunjar

3. EMOTION, DIGITAL MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY

Johana Kotisova and Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

4. THE PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC DISCOURSE: SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS' CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY

Raquel Recuero and Camilla Quesada Tavares

5. THE TRANSNATIONAL PUBLIC SPHERE IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CHALLENGES – PROMISES AND THREATS OF DIGITAL MEDIA TO DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE

Barbara Pfetsch, Curd Knüpfer and Annett Heft

6. DIGITALIZING DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA: INTERROGATING SHORTCOMINGS AND EXPLORING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENHANCED PARTICIPATION

Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey and Michael Etrue

7. TECHNOSOCIAL IMAGINARIES AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS

Adrienne Russell

8. DIGITAL RESSENTIMENT, POLARIZATION, AND THE NEOLIBERAL LOGICS OF PAIN

Megan Boler

9. POLARIZATION AND CONNECTION IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Talia Stroud

10. FROM CYBERDEMOCRACY TO CYBERAUTOCRACY: THE SHIFTING POLITICAL AND MEDIATED LANDSCAPES IN THE ARAB WORLD

Sahar Khamis

11. THE IMPACT OF AI ON DEMOCRACY

Yin Yang, Timilehin Durotoye, and Homero Gil de Zúñiga

PRACTICES: ENGAGEMENT, PARTICIPATION, AND VOICE

12. WHAT IS GONE AND WHAT REMAINS IN THE RESEARCH ON DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT?

Andrew Chadwick

13. FEATURE, NOT BUG: TOWARDS A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR ONLINE INCIVILITY

Patrícia Rossini

14. WHEN PARTICIPATION THREATENS DEMOCRACY: THE CASE OF ANTI-ABORTION INFLUENCERS

Zelly C. Martin and Samuel C. Woolley

15. DEMOCRACY “INSIDE OUT”: ON FAR-RIGHT REFRACTED PUBLICS IN BRAZIL

Letícia Maria Costa da Nóbrega Cesarino, Leonardo Fernandes Nascimento, and Paulo Fonseca

16. MISINFORMED OR UNINFORMED: SCALABLE INTERVENTIONS FOR A LOW-KNOWLEDGE CITIZENRY

Dhavan V. Shah, Sijia Yang and Michael Wagner

17. NEWS AVOIDANCE AND DIGITAL INEQUALITIES IN NEWS USE

Antonis Kalogeropoulos

18. SOCIAL MEDIA AND YOUTH ENGAGEMENT IN GHANA'S EVOLVING DEMOCRACY

Aurelia Ayisi

PRACTICES: TECHNOLOGY, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND SOCIAL CHANGE

19. RE-STACK-TIONARY: THE INFRASTRUCTURAL TURN IN FAR-RIGHT DIGITAL MEDIA

Reed Van Schenck

20. VIRALITY AND REVERSAL: HOW RIGHT-WING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CO-OPT AND MANIPULATE DIGITAL NETWORKS

Meredith L. Pruden and Caitlin Apone

21. USING TECHNOLOGY TO DRIVE SOCIAL CHANGE: DARK PARTICIPATION AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN BRAZIL

Josephine Lukito and Joao V. S. Ozawa

22. REVISITING RECREANCY

Christy Khoury and Calvin Cousin

23. LEGITIMATING RESISTANCE: EMPOWERING PRO-DEMOCRATIC JOURNALISM THROUGH ALTERNATIVE NEWS

Elliott Edsall and Matt Carlson

24. SHIFTING THE NARRATIVE: DIGITAL JOURNALISM STARTUPS AS CATALYSTS OF SOCIAL CHANGE

Alfred Hermida & Mary Lynn Young

25. ONLINE HATE SPEECH: CATALYSTS, CHALLENGES, AND PATHS TO SOCIAL CHANGE IN DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES

Raluca Buturoiu and Nicoleta Corbu

26. TECHNOLOGY AFFORDANCES AND COLLECTIVE ACTIONS: NOTES ON THE PARADOXICAL INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON PROTEST MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH AMERICA

Karen Gheza, Marcelo Santos, and Sebastián Valenzuela

PRACTICES: DIGITAL POLITICS, POLICY & DEVELOPMENT

27. THE BANNON DOCTRINE: NETWORK INSURRECTIONISM AND DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDING

Marco Bastos and Olívia Freitas

28. THE MAKING OF MISINFORMED CHOICE: DIGITAL MEDIA, DEMOCRACY, AND NEW CHALLENGES TO ELECTORAL PRACTICES IN ASIA

Über Autor(innen)

Zizi Papacharissi is UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication and Political Science at the University of Illinois-Chicago and Department Head of Communication. She is also University Scholar and affiliate faculty with the Discovery Partners Institute at the University of Illinois System. Her work focuses on the social and political consequences of online media. She has published 10 books, over 80 journal articles and book chapters, and serves on the editorial board of fifteen journals. Zizi is the founding and current Editor of the open access journal Social Media & Society. Her work has been translated in Greek, German, Korean, Chinese, Hungarian, Italian, Turkish, and Persian.