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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A substantial, unique, and much needed contribution to our understanding of media, politics, and policy. Inspired and comprehensive in its approach,
Digital Media and Democratic Futures offers a set of fresh and original questions answered by innovative thinkers." * Zizi Papacharissi, University of Illinois, Chicago *
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Digital Media and Democratic Futures forges new lines of interdisciplinary research. Editor Michael X. Delli Carpini and the book's contributors identify the stakes in digital politics and describe the relationships between disparate phenomena, from the Internet of Things to Black Lives Matter." * David Karpf, George Washington University *
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Digital Media and the Future(s) of Democracy
—Michael X. Delli Carpini
PART I. DESIGNING DIGITAL DEMOCRACIES
1. Programming the Rules of Engagement: Social Media Design and the Nonprofit System
—Rena Bivens
2. Digital Opportunity Structures: Explaining Variation in Digital Mobilization During the 2016 Democratic Primaries
—Daniel Kreiss
3. Kids These Days: Supply and Demand for Youth Online Political Engagement
—Thomas Elliott and Jennifer Earl
PART II. RETHINKING EXPERTISE IN DIGITAL DEMOCRACIES
4. Why Dewey Was Wrong
—Beth Simone Noveck
5. Counting the Uncounted: What the Absence of Data on Police Killings Reveals
—Kelly Gates
6. Digital Peripheries and the Politics of Expertise in Nairobi, Kenya
—Lisa Poggiali
PART III. DIGITAL MEDIA AND PUBLIC VOICES
7. Authoritarian Deliberation 2.0: Lurking and Discussing Politics in Chinese Social Media
—Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo
8. How the Market for Social Media Shapes Strategies of Internet Censorship
—Jennifer Pan
9. The Measure of a Movement: Quantifying Black Lives Matter's Social Media Power
—Deen Freelon
PART IV. REGULATING DIGITAL DEMOCRACIES
10. Must Privacy Give Way to Use Regulation?
—Helen Nissenbaum
11. Democratic Futures and the Internet of Things: How Information Infrastructure Will Become a Political Constitution
—Philip N. Howard
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
