Digital Political Participation, Social Networks and Big Data: Disintermediation in the Era of Web 2.0
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Book Overview
Chapter 1. Introduction
PART I. THE FRAMEWORK: TOWARDS A DISINTERMEDIATED POLITICS?
Chapter 2. The mediated public opinion: When everything happens through others
2.1. The idea of the public sphere. A rereading of Habermas
2.2. The normative conception of public opinion
Chapter 3. The culture of politics on the Network
3.1. A change in perspective
3.2. The richness of the networks.
Chapter 4. The political potential of social networks
4.1. The disintermediation of the agents
4.2. The disintermediation of the messages
4.3. The disintermediation of political spaces
Chapter 5. The dreams of technological reason generate monsters
5.1. Homogeneity and homophily
5.2. Polarization
5.3. Incivility
5.4. Flaming
PART II. DISINTERMEDIATION IN SOCIAL NETWORKS
Chapter 6. The disintermediation of the agents, the case of #UnidosPodemos
6.1. In Memoriam Los Indignados
6.2. The concept of the connective party
6.3. A party that operates on the Internet
Chapter 7. The disintermediation of the message: the case of #BlackLivesMatter
7.1. Genesis of a networked movement
7.2. The symbolic appropriation of #BLM
7.3. Technological aperture
7.4. From Ideology to identity and from identity to individuality
Chapter 8. The disintermediation of the space: the case of #BringBackOurGirls
8.1. The kidnapping of the Chibok Girls takes over the Internet
8.2. Leaping the barriers of space with "slacktivism"
8.3. Virality and influencers as drivers of visibility
Chapter 9. How does politics work? The Big Data view
9.1. The negative effects of disintermediation: #Trump2016
9.2. Nodes that win elections: #UnidosPodemos
Chapter 10. Conclusions
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