Digitizing Democracy (Routledge Studies in Media, Communication, and Politics)

by Brian Mc Nair (Editor), Axel Bruns (Editor), Aljosha Karim Schapals (Editor), Brian McNair (Editor), Axel Bruns (Editor), Aljosha Karim Schapals (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2018

  $146.41

  What are the key challenges facing our increasingly digitized democracy, and how might we as citizens contribute to resolving them? This book explores these questions, adopting a multi-disciplinary approach that combines work from media studies, journalism studies and political science scholars and draws on trends in countries including Australia, the US, the UK, Egypt and Indonesia. The book is divided into three main themes: (1) Political communication trends in societies increasingly dominated by the digital; (2) the potential of digital media to enhance civic engagement and social inclusion; (3) the future of digital democracy at a time of rising populism and nationalism.