Retooling Politics: How Digital Media Are Shaping Democracy (Jungherr Andreas)(Pevná vazba)

Retooling Politics: How Digital Media Are Shaping Democracy (Jungherr Andreas)(Pevná vazba)

Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: Digital media have provided political actors and citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists, candidates, non-governmental organizations, and parties to inform, mobilize, and persuade people. But what are the

Influence: How Social Media Influencers Are Shaping Our Digital Future (McCorquodale Sara)(Paperback)

A detailed review of what businesses need to know about influencer strategies, social media and how digital communication works. Digital influencing is one of the most exciting and disruptive new industries, forecast to be worth billions by 2020, but those charged with making this an effective

Interaction in Digital News Media: From Principles to Practice (Prez-Montoro Mario)(Pevná vazba)

Digital News Media (DNM) are characterized by their efforts to provide consumers with new content interaction experiences, which contrast with the more passive experiences provided by traditional news media. This book directly addresses these interaction experiences, taking the reader from

Beyond Hashtags: Racial Politics and Black Digital Networks (Florini Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

How black Americans use digital networks to organize and cultivate solidarity Unrest gripped Ferguson, Missouri, after Mike Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed by Officer Darren Wilson in August 2014. Many black Americans turned to their digital and social media networks to

Crises of Democracy (Przeworski Adam)(Pevná vazba)

Is democracy in crisis? The current threats to democracy are not just political: they are deeply embedded in the democracies of today, in current economic, social, and cultural conditions. In Crises of Democracy, Adam Przeworski presents a panorama of the political situation throughout the world of

Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human-Media-World Relations (Van Den Eede Yoni)(Pevná vazba)

Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human-Media-World Relations sheds light on how new, digital media are shaping humans and their world. It does so by using the postphenomenological framework to comprehensively study 'human-media relations,' making use of conceptual instruments such as the

Collaborative Media: Production, Consumption, and Design Interventions (Lwgren Jonas)(Pevná vazba)

A thorough analysis of contemporary digital media practices, showing how people increasingly not only consume but also produce and even design media. With many new forms of digital media-including such popular social media as Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr--the people formerly known as the audience

Twilight of Democracy - The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends (Applebaum Anne)(Pevná vazba)

The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Are Changing World Politics (Sikkink Kathryn)(Pevná vazba)

Drawing on extensive research and illuminating personal experience, Sikkink reveals how the stunning emergence of human rights prosecutions has come about; what effect it has had on democracy, conflict, and repression; and what it means for leaders and citizens everywhere, from Uruguay to the

Digital Detox: The Politics of Disconnecting (Syvertsen Trine)(Paperback)

Social media and smartphones are criticised for being addictive, destroying personal relationships, undermining productivity, and invading privacy. In this book, Trine Syvertsen explores the phenomenon of digital detox: users taking a break from digital media or adopting measures to limit

Never Ending Nightmare: The Neoliberal Assault on Democracy (Dardot Pierre)(Pevná vazba)

Neoliberalism's war against democracy and how to resist it How do we explain the strange survival of the forces responsible for the 2008 economic crisis, one of the worst since 1929? How do we explain the fact that neoliberalism has emerged from the crisis strengthened? When it broke, a number of

Equality Beyond Debate: John Dewey's Pragmatic Idea of Democracy (Jackson Jeff)(Pevná vazba)

This book is for students of politics who want to understand what democracy should mean in a structurally unequal society. Much current discussion of democracy focuses on encouraging individuals to debate more civilly and respectfully, but this book shows why combating social inequality should be

Digital Media Influence: A Cultivation Approach (Ruddock Andy)(Pevná vazba)

Populism, misogyny, rampage murders. Digital media seem to lie at the heart of sinister, intractable social challenges. Curiously, the very societies who fear such things are often dismissive of media research. Addressing key issues affecting global media industries, this book explains how to solve

The Next Democracy?: The Possibility of Popular Control (Milligan Tony)(Pevná vazba)

Responding to widespread disenchantment with electoral politics, this book gives a practical examination of the possibilities offered by a generalized system of direct

Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Applebaum Anne)(Pevná vazba)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - 'How did our democracy go wrong? This extraordinary document ... is Applebaum's answer.' --Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian explains, with electrifying clarity, why elites in democracies around the world are turning toward nationalism

Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy (Urbinati Nadia)(Pevná vazba)

A timely and incisive assessment of what the success of populism means for democracy. Populist movements have recently appeared in nearly every democracy around the world. Yet our grasp of this disruptive political phenomenon remains woefully inadequate. Politicians of all stripes appeal to the

Democracy in Times of Pandemic (Maduro Miguel Poiares)(Pevná vazba)

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an important case study, on a global scale, of how democracy works - and fails to work - today. From leadership to citizenship, from due process to checks and balances, from globalization to misinformation, from solidarity within and across borders to the role of

The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction (Kalisch Michael)(Pevná vazba)

How might our friendships shape our politics? This new book examines how contemporary American fiction - from Philip Roth to Dinaw Mengestu - has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of

The Norwegian Exception?: Norway's Liberal Democracy Since 1814 (Fasting Mathilde)(Pevná vazba)

How did Norway become a highly successful liberal democracy? Will its prosperity and stability last, or has modern history been an exception? Is the Norwegian experience based on luck, or has a part been played by clever politicians and sound institutions, including a well-functioning rule of law?

Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious Politics in India (Ray Avishek)(Pevná vazba)

From the shaping of identities and belongings through to current reconfigurations of nation, governance and state under a Hindu-Right dispensation, this book tracks the sentiments and structures that sustain the nation and nationalism in India. Nation, Nationalism and the Public Sphere: Religious

The Work of Politics (Klein Steven)(Pevná vazba)

The Work of Politics advances a new understanding of how democratic social movements work with welfare institutions to challenge structures of domination. Klein develops a novel theory that depicts welfare institutions as 'worldly mediators,' or sites of democratic world-making fostering political

How to Speak Machine - Laws of Design for a Digital Age (Maeda John)(Pevná vazba)

Modi's India: Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy (Jaffrelot Christophe)(Pevná vazba)

A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intolerance Over the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism that has ensured its success at the polls,

Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century (Landemore Hlne)(Pevná vazba)

How a new model of democracy that opens up power to ordinary citizens could strengthen inclusiveness, responsiveness, and accountability in modern societies To the ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in public and debating laws set by a randomly selected assembly of several hundred citizens