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Elgar encyclopedia of technology and politics / edited by Andrea Ceron.
Edward Elgar AI Intelligence Disruptive Technology 2024 Available from 2022. Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Digital media.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (356 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2022]
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- PART I SUBJECTS AND SUBFIELDS
- Agenda-setting research in the age of social media
- Clicktivism, slacktivism and connective action
- Cybersecurity
- Digitally networked protests
- E-campaigning and elections
- E-democracy
- Electoral predictions from social media data
- Internet and political participation
- Nowcasting and forecasting with Big Data
- Populism and social media
- Social media and autocracy
- Social media and political trust
- Social media and public health
- Social media revolution versus normalization
- Social TV and second screen
- Terrorism and online extremism
- Violence, conflict, war and social media
- PART II METHODS
- Digital trace data analysis
- Technicity-of-the-mediums
- Data collection: APIs and scraping
- Audio as data
- Image as data and visual methods
- Text as data
- Scaling models in politicalscience
- Sentiment analysis and opinion mining
- Topic models
- Mobile positioning data
- Machine learning and deep learning
- Qualitative methods
- Digital ethnography
- Social network analysis
- PART III ACTORS
- Activated public opinion
- Algorithm, machine learning and artificial intelligence
- Bots
- Digital advocacy
- Digital parties
- Fact-checking
- Hacktivists
- Hyperleaders
- Political influencers
- Social media analytics companies
- Trolls
- Voting advice applications
- WikiLeaks and whistleblowers
- PART IV CORE KEYWORDS
- Big Data
- Censorship online
- Data journalism
- Deep Web and Dark Web
- Digital public sphere
- Disinformation
- Echo chambers
- Fake news
- Filter bubbles
- Hashtag politics
- Microtargeting
- Misinformation
- (Non-)representativeness of social media data
- Online political hostility
- Open data
- Post-truth
- Viral political marketing.
- Wisdom of crowds
- PART V DEBATED AND EMERGING TOPICS
- Apps and politics
- Computational propaganda effects
- Conspiracy theories on social media
- Coordinated inauthentic behavior
- Crypto-politics
- Data doxa
- Digital movement of opinion
- Digital surveillance
- Election manipulation and interference
- Gamification in politics
- Meme politics
- Online sources for journalism
- Platform labor and digital labor
- Robots and politics
- Sentiment democracy
- Twiplomacy
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Ceron, Andrea Elgar Encyclopedia of Technology and Politics
- ISBN:
- 9781800374263
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