Digital Political Participation, Social Networks and Big Data Disintermediation in the Era of Web 2.0 /

• Main Authors: Robles-Morales, José Manuel (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Córdoba-Hernández, Ana María (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Digital media.; Political communication.; Democracy.; Political sociology.; Social media.; Big data.; Digital/New Media.; Political Communication.; Political Sociology.; Social Media.; Big Data.

This book explores the changes in political communication in light of the development of a public opinion mediated by web 2.0 technologies. One of the most important changes in political communication is related to the process of disintermediation, i.e. the process by which digital technologies allo...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• PART I. THE FRAMEWORK: TOWARDS A DISINTERMEDIATED POLITICS?
• Chapter 2. The mediated public opinion: When everything happens through others
• Chapter 3. The culture of politics on the Network
• Chapter 4. The political potential of social networks
• Chapter 5. The dreams of technological reason generate monsters
• PART II. DISINTERMEDIATION IN SOCIAL NETWORKS
• Chapter 6. The disintermediation of the agents, the case of #UnidosPodemos
• Chapter 7. The disintermediation of the message: the case of #BlackLivesMatter
• Chapter 8. The disintermediation of the space: the case of #BringBackOurGirls
• Chapter 9. How does politics work? The Big Data view
• Chapter 10. Conclusions.