Two leading thinkers who produced seminal texts on digital democracy and the network society when these were nebulous possibilities for most of us have teamed up. The result is a prescient and engaging book that invites all to rethink the future of networked media and democracy.
Zizi Papacharissi, Professor and Head of Communication, Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois
This book is a timely, thoughtful and thought-provoking volume on the state of politics and democracy in an increasingly networked society, dealing with a plethora of hot-button issues such as filter bubbles and fake news. The fact that this book bears almost no resemblance to Digital Democracy (2000) makes one realize the seismic shift in internet-based politics just in the last 18 years, and how profoundly it has affected democracies as well as autocracies.
S. Shyam Sundar, Distinguished Professor, The Pennsylvania State University
Internet and Democracy in the Network Society
A seminal shift has taken place in the relationship between Internet usage and politics. At the turn of the 21st century, it was presumed that digital communication would produce many positive political effects such as improvements to political information retrieval, support for public debate and community formation or even enhancements in citizen participation in political decision making. While there have been positive effects, negative effects have also occurred including fake news and other political disinformation, social media appropriation by terrorists and extremists, echo chambers and filter bubbles, elections influenced by hostile hackers and campaign manipulation by micro-targeting marketing. It is time for a critical re-evaluation.
Designed to encourage critical thinking on the part of the student, internationally recognized experts Jan A.G.M. van Dijk and Kenneth L. Hacker chronicle the political significance of new communication technologies for the promotion of democracy over the last two decades. Drawing upon structuration theory and network theory and real-world case studies from across the globe, the book is logically structured around the following topics:
Political Participation and Inclusion
Habermas and the Reconstruction of Public Space
Media and Democracy in Authoritarian States
Democracy and the Internet in China
E-government and Democracy
Views of Democracy and Internet Use
Underpinned by up-to-date literature, this important textbook is aimed at students and scholars of communication studies, political science, sociology, political communication, and international relations.
Jan A.G.M. van Dijk is an internationally recognized expert in the field of communication, his specific interest being new media studies. Van Dijk is the author of The Network Society (1999, 2006, 2012), The Deepening Divide (2005) and Digital Skills (2014). As Professor of Communication Science at the University of Twente, van Dijk teaches and develops the sociology of the information society, in particular the social-cultural, political, and organizational aspects.
Kenneth L. Hacker is Professor and Department Head of Communication Studies at New Mexico State University. He researches communication science in the areas of a) political communication, b) new communication technologies, c) communication and national security, and d) military family interactions. He has edited two books on presidential campaign communication and one (with Jan van Dijk) on digital democracy.
Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society
Edited by Kenneth Rogerson and Laura Roselle
Duke University and Elon University
International communication encompasses everything from one-to-one cross-cultural interactions to the global reach of a broad range of information and communications technologies and processes. Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society celebrates and embraces this depth and breadth. To completely understand communication, it must be studied in concert with many factors, since, most often, it is the foundational principle on which other subjects rest. This series provides a publishing space for scholarship in the expansive, yet intersecting, categories of communication and information processes and other disciplines.
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Theoretical and Applied Research Approaches
Edited by Dan Schill, Rita Kirk, and Amy Jasperson
13. Disability Rights Advocacy Online
Voice, Empowerment and Global Connectivity
Filippo Trevisan
14. Media Relations of the Anti-War Movement
The Battle for Hearts and Minds
Ian Taylor
15. The Politics of Data Transfer
Transatlantic Conflict and Cooperation over Data Privacy
Yuko Suda
16. The Media and the Public Sphere
A Deliberative Model of Democracy
Thomas Hussler
17. Internet and Democracy in the Network Society
Jan A.G.M. van Dijk and Kenneth L. Hacker
Internet and Democracy in the Network Society
Jan A.G.M. van Dijk and Kenneth L. Hacker
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Dijk, Jan van, 1952 editor. | Hacker, Kenneth L., editor.
Title: Internet and democracy in the network society / edited by Jan A.G.M. van Dijk and Kenneth L. Hacker.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge studies in global information, politics and society ; 17 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018001308 | ISBN 9780815363019 (hbk) | ISBN 9780815363026 (pbk) | ISBN 9781351110693 (epk) | ISBN 9781351110686 (mobipocket/kindle) | ISBN 9781351110716 (Master) | ISBN 9781351110709 (WebPDF) | ISBN 9781351110693 (ePub)
Subjects: LCSH: Political participationTechnological innovations. | Communication in politicsTechnological innovations. | Information societyPolitical aspects. | InternetPolitical aspects. | Democracy.
Classification: LCC JF799.5 .I67 2018 | DDC 320.0285/4678dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018001308
ISBN: 978-0-815-36301-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-815-36302-6 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-351-11071-6 (ebk)
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Contents
Co-authored by Ben Mollov, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
