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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

Zizi Papacharissi

FOUNDATIONS & THEORY

2. TOGETHER WE CAN MOVE MOUNTAINS: UNDERSTANDING THE POWER OF SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS TO SHAPE DEMOCRATIC DELIBERATIONS

Brooke Foucault Welles, Sagar Kumar and Sharaj Kunjar

3. EMOTION, DIGITAL MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY

Johana Kotisova and Karin Wahl-Jorgensen

4. THE PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC DISCOURSE: SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS' CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY

Raquel Recuero and Camilla Quesada Tavares

5. THE TRANSNATIONAL PUBLIC SPHERE IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL CHALLENGES ? PROMISES AND THREATS OF DIGITAL MEDIA TO DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE

Barbara Pfetsch, Curd Knupfer and Annett Heft

6. DIGITALIZING DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA: INTERROGATING SHORTCOMINGS AND EXPLORING OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENHANCED PARTICIPATION

Theodora Dame Adjin-Tettey and Michael Etrue

7. TECHNOSOCIAL IMAGINARIES AND THE CLIMATE CRISIS

Adrienne Russell

8. DIGITAL RESSENTIMENT, POLARIZATION, AND THE NEOLIBERAL LOGICS OF PAIN

Megan Boler

9. POLARIZATION AND CONNECTION IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Talia Stroud

10. FROM CYBERDEMOCRACY TO CYBERAUTOCRACY: THE SHIFTING POLITICAL AND MEDIATED LANDSCAPES IN THE ARAB WORLD

Sahar Khamis

11. THE IMPACT OF AI ON DEMOCRACY

Yin Yang, Timilehin Durotoye, and Homero Gil de Zuniga

PRACTICES: ENGAGEMENT, PARTICIPATION, AND VOICE

12. WHAT IS GONE AND WHAT REMAINS IN THE RESEARCH ON DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT?

Andrew Chadwick

13. FEATURE, NOT BUG: TOWARDS A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR ONLINE INCIVILITY

Patricia Rossini

14. WHEN PARTICIPATION THREATENS DEMOCRACY: THE CASE OF ANTI-ABORTION INFLUENCERS

Zelly C. Martin and Samuel C. Woolley

15. DEMOCRACY “INSIDE OUT”: ON FAR-RIGHT REFRACTED PUBLICS IN BRAZIL

Leticia Maria Costa da Nobrega Cesarino, Leonardo Fernandes Nascimento, and Paulo Fonseca

16. MISINFORMED OR UNINFORMED: SCALABLE INTERVENTIONS FOR A LOW-KNOWLEDGE CITIZENRY

Dhavan V. Shah, Sijia Yang and Michael Wagner

17. NEWS AVOIDANCE AND DIGITAL INEQUALITIES IN NEWS USE

Antonis Kalogeropoulos

18. SOCIAL MEDIA AND YOUTH ENGAGEMENT IN GHANA'S EVOLVING DEMOCRACY

Aurelia Ayisi

PRACTICES: TECHNOLOGY, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND SOCIAL CHANGE

19. RE-STACK-TIONARY: THE INFRASTRUCTURAL TURN IN FAR-RIGHT DIGITAL MEDIA

Reed Van Schenck

20. VIRALITY AND REVERSAL: HOW RIGHT-WING SOCIAL MOVEMENTS CO-OPT AND MANIPULATE DIGITAL NETWORKS

Meredith L. Pruden and Caitlin Apone

21. USING TECHNOLOGY TO DRIVE SOCIAL CHANGE: DARK PARTICIPATION AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN BRAZIL

Josephine Lukito and Joao V. S. Ozawa

22. REVISITING RECREANCY

Christy Khoury and Calvin Cousin

23. LEGITIMATING RESISTANCE: EMPOWERING PRO-DEMOCRATIC JOURNALISM THROUGH ALTERNATIVE NEWS

Elliott Edsall and Matt Carlson

24. SHIFTING THE NARRATIVE: DIGITAL JOURNALISM STARTUPS AS CATALYSTS OF SOCIAL CHANGE

Alfred Hermida & Mary Lynn Young

25. ONLINE HATE SPEECH: CATALYSTS, CHALLENGES, AND PATHS TO SOCIAL CHANGE IN DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES

Raluca Buturoiu and Nicoleta Corbu

26. TECHNOLOGY AFFORDANCES AND COLLECTIVE ACTIONS: NOTES ON THE PARADOXICAL INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON PROTEST MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH AMERICA

Karen Gheza, Marcelo Santos, and Sebastian Valenzuela

PRACTICES: DIGITAL POLITICS, POLICY & DEVELOPMENT

27. THE BANNON DOCTRINE: NETWORK INSURRECTIONISM AND DEMOCRATIC BACKSLIDING

Marco Bastos and Olivia Freitas

28. THE MAKING OF MISINFORMED CHOICE: DIGITAL MEDIA, DEMOCRACY, AND NEW CHALLENGES TO ELECTORAL PRACTICES IN ASIA

Nishant Shah and Anushree Majumdar

29. DEMOCRATIC VALUES AND PRACTICES IN THE AGE OF DISINFORMATION, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND AI

Jose Emilio Garcia, Norma Elva Chavez, and Saiph Savage

30. REIMAGINING LOCAL NEWS AND INFORMATION ECOSYSTEMS FOR TODAY’S DEMOCRACY

Andrea Lorenz

31. EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DIGITAL MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR ALTERNATIVE PLATFORM GOVERNANCE

Philipp Lorenz-Spreen

32. ETHIOPIA’S CIVIL WAR AND PATTERNS OF EXCLUSION IN GLOBAL CONTENT MODERATION REGIMES

Kirubel Tadesse and Samantha Bradshaw

33. BEYOND TOKEN DEMOCRACY: AI, SELF DETERMINATION, AND THE QUESTION OF INCLUSIVE GLOBAL REGULATION

Scott Timcke and Herman Wasserman

34. #REJECTFINACEBILL2024: GEN Z’S SOCIAL MEDIA ACTIVISM, DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE IN KENYA

Fredrick Ogenga

FUTURES

35. DIGITAL MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY: COPING WITH AMBIVALENCE

Cristian Vaccari

36. HOW SOCIAL MEDIA CONTRIBUTES TO DEMOCRATIC EROSION

Jesper Stromback and Mathilda Akerlund

37. NETWORKED REPETITION AND GRASSROOTS STRUGGLES FOR ALTERNATIVE DIGITAL FUTURES

Guobin Yang

38. FUTURE-PROOFING EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE) IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN DEMOCRACY

Chikezie E. Uzuegbunam

39. FEELING FEMINIST FUTURES IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS

Margreth Lunenborg and Ana Makhashvili

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