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Author:   Adi Kuntsman (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK) ,  Liu Xin (Karlstad University, Sweden)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.365kg
ISBN:  

9781803822020

ISBN 10:   1803822023
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   23 May 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Crafting new approaches for historising, politicising and imagining the digital; Adi Kuntsman and Liu Xin Part I. Theories, Concepts, Explorations Chapter 1. Digital Politics: Defining, exploring and challenging the field; Athina Karatzogianni and Jonathan Ong Chapter 2. Social Media, the Archives of Tomorrow; Nermin Elsherif Chapter 3. Activism and the Anti-Vaccination Movement; Howard Grice Chapter 4. The Scattered Nature or Sovereign Surveillance: On Internet Models in the Context of Tomorrow; Kris Kaleta Chapter 5. A post-developmental critique of digital development and digital capitalism; Emeka Joseph Nwankwo Chapter 6. Dirty, toxic, dumped: Waste as data metaphor; Laura Savolainen Part II. Methodologies, Pedagogies, Imaginaries Chapter 7. Historicising Digital Research: From the histories of the digital to histories written through the digital; Nermin Elsherif Chapter 8. Sociotechnical imaginaries as an analytical tool for examining digital histories and digital futures; Liu Xin Chapter 9. Digitalised home as shell / membrane; Nermin Elsherif, Kris Kaleta, and Laura Savolainen Chapter 10. A Story about the futures of digital storytelling; Pierre Chadelle, Tatiana Klepikova, and Kerry Anne Maxwell Chapter 11. Layers of Digital Governance: Governing the Self, Platforms and Engineering; Kirsikka Grön, Hannah Guy, and David Mee

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This book offers a much needed holistic and interdisciplinary perspective on digital politics. Adi Kuntsman and Liu Xin stage an engaging conversation between leading and emerging scholars, who examine the history, political economy, and materiality of digital politics. Crucially, they do so from different geo-political, disciplinary, and conceptual angles, which generates vital new insights. And, as icing on the cake, the book offers two experimental research toolkits to explore the histories and social-technical imaginaries of digital politics. In sum, Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures is a creative and thought-provoking contribution. -- Thomas Poell, Professor of Data, Cultural & Institutions, University of Amsterdam Combining theoretical reflections and empirical diversity, this collection gathers interdisciplinary conversations about how the digital and the political are reconfiguring one another with implications for social movements, global warfare, infrastructural governance, citizen rights, and the future of archives. Entangling the socio-cultural and the environmental with the digital, leading scholars and dynamic researchers open up the field of digital politics to the political economy of disinformation, critiques of development discourses and digital divides, and materialities of dirty data. The volume presents insights curated inexperimental multi-dimensional and multi-authored forms-interviews, maps, toolkits, and essays-which will inspire researchers and teachers of social media and digital technologies, and set a new benchmark for future collaborative knowledge production. This volume not only offers a powerful argument for historicising digital research but also provides innovative methodologies and alternative imaginaries to understand digital histories and futures. -- Rahul Mukherjee, Associate Professor of Television and New Media, University of Pennsylvania and author of Radiant Infrastructures

Author Information

Adi Kuntsman is Reader in Digital Politics at the Department of History, Politics and Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Liu Xin is Senior Lecturer at the Center for Gender Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden.

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