Tag: collective action
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Hate speech by political actors on X. The Spanish case.
Political agents utilize digital platforms as alternative venues to solidify their ideological stances, employing rhetorical…
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P&I Special Issue 2023 Call for Paper – Datafication. Platformisation. Metaverse. Global Internet Policy or a Fractured Communication Future?
Within our current online and hyper-connected lives, is it possible to have such a thing…
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Brexit, voting, and political turbulence
Explaining why many political mobilisations of our times seem to come from nowhere.
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Do Finland’s digitally crowdsourced laws show a way to resolve democracy’s “legitimacy crisis”?
Discussing the digitally crowdsourced law for same-sex marriage that was passed in Finland and analysing…
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Don’t knock clickivism: it represents the political participation aspirations of the modern citizen
Is an action only ‘political’ if it takes place in the mainstream political arena; involving…
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Finnish decision to allow same-sex marriage “shows the power of citizen initiatives”
It is the first piece of “crowdsourced” legislation on its way to becoming law in…
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Past and Emerging Themes in Policy and Internet Studies
– in Social Data ScienceIt is simply not possible to consider public policy today without some regard for the…
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Mapping collective public opinion in the Russian blogosphere
The Russian language blogosphere counts about 85 million blogs—an amount far beyond the capacities of…
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The physics of social science: using big data for real-time predictive modelling
There are very interesting examples of using big data to make predictions about disease outbreaks,…
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Verification of crowd-sourced information: is this ‘crowd wisdom’ or machine wisdom?
– in Social Data ScienceThe problem with computer code is that it is invisible, and that it makes it…
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Predicting elections on Twitter: a different way of thinking about the data
Social media monitoring, which in theory can extract information from tweets and Facebook posts and…
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Presenting the moral imperative: effective storytelling strategies by online campaigning organisations
Existing civil society focused organisations are also being challenged to fundamentally change their approach, to…