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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 Knuepfer 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 Zuniga
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
Patricia 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
Leticia Maria Costa da Nobrega 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 Sebastian Valenzuela
PRACTICES: DIGITAL POLITICS, POLICY & DEVELOPMENT
27. THE BANNON DOCTRINE: NETWORK INSURRECTIONISM AND DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDING
Marco Bastos and Olivia Freitas
28. THE MAKING OF MISINFORMED CHOICE: DIGITAL MEDIA, DEMOCRACY, AND NEW CHALLENGES TO ELECTORAL PRACTICES IN ASIA
Nishant Shah and Anushree Majumdar
29. DEMOCRATIC VALUES AND PRACTICES IN THE AGE OF DISINFORMATION, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND AI
Jose Emilio Garcia, Norma Elva Chavez, and Saiph Savage
30. REIMAGINING LOCAL NEWS AND INFORMATION ECOSYSTEMS FOR TODAY'S DEMOCRACY
Andrea Lorenz
31. EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DIGITAL MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ALTERNATIVE PLATFORM GOVERNANCE
Philipp Lorenz-Spreen
32. ETHIOPIA'S CIVIL WAR AND PATTERNS OF EXCLUSION IN GLOBAL CONTENT MODERATION REGIMES
Kirubel Tadesse and Samantha Bradshaw
33. BEYOND TOKEN DEMOCRACY: AI, SELF DETERMINATION, AND THE QUESTION OF INCLUSIVE GLOBAL REGULATION
Scott Timcke and Herman Wasserman
34. #REJECTFINACEBILL2024: GEN Z'S SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVISM, DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE IN KENYA
Fredrick Ogenga
FUTURES
35. DIGITAL MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY: COPING WITH AMBIVALENCE
Cristian Vaccari
36. HOW SOCIAL MEDIA CONTRIBUTES TO DEMOCRATIC EROSION
Jesper Stroembaeck and Mathilda Akerlund
37. NETWORKED REPETITION AND GRASSROOTS STRUGGLES FOR ALTERNATIVE DIGITAL FUTURES
Guobin Yang
38. FUTURE-PROOFING EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN DEMOCRACY
Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam
39. FEELING FEMINIST FUTURES IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS
Margreth Luenenborg and Ana Makhashvili
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