Introduction Part I: Concepts
1. Great Expectations: Network Media Logic and Politics in the Age of Generative AI
2. A Perfect Match? The Populism-Social Media Nexus
3. Digital Dimensions of Propaganda: Technological, Doctrinal, and Organizational Shifts in Authoritarian Strategic Communication
4. Deliberation and Destructive Polarisation in Social Media Part II: Challenges
5. Studying Social Media and Politics: What Is ‘Social’ about Our Research?
6. Can African Feminist Philosophy Inform a Holistic Multilateral Approach to Governing Social Media?
7. The Global Village Is Here, Just Not Like We Expected: Transnationalism on Social Media and the Rise of Networked Cosmopolitanism
8. Alt-Platformisation: Evolution of Fringe Communication and Political Discourses Through and with the Web
9. Hyperconnectivity, Not Isolation: Why Concerns about ‘Echo Chambers’ and ‘Filter Bubbles’ Address the Wrong Problem
10. Authenticity in the Age of AI: Beyond the Alarmist Deepfake Discourse Part III: Policies
11. The Truthkeeping Moment: The Rise and Fall of Platform-Supported Fact-Checking
12. Public Speech, Private Governance, Public Values? Platform Policies on Political Advertising
13. Who Do Parties Target? Worldwide Evidence on Political Microtargeting
14. Social Media Data Access in the Post-API Age
15. Computational Infrastructures for the Collection and Study of Digital Platform-Based Political Advertising
16. When Private Affords Public: Politics on Platforms or Platforms for Politics? Part IV: Problems
17. Restating the State? Social Media Propaganda and the State?Non-State Nexus
18. The Influencer Theater: Participatory Disinformation in the Influencer Era
19. Navigating Coordination and Inauthentic Behaviour: Challenges and Innovations in Social Media Detection
20. Populism across Two Continents: Assessing the Use of Populist Communication Styles on Facebook across 10 Countries
21. Harmful Visual Humour on Far-Right Social Media: Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Reactionary Memes Part V: Platforms
22. So Long Twitter, and Thanks for All the Tweets
23. Digital Public Opinion in China: Weibo Discourses from COVID-19 and Beyond
24. Instagram and Politics: A Systematic Literature Review
25. Locating WhatsApp in Indian Politics: History, Media Ecology, and Ideology
26. Telegram as a Developing Political Actor: Conceptualising Platform Actorness
27. Play, Protest, Repeat: Conceptualizing Playful Activism on TikTok
28. Memetic Politics on TikTok: Key Ideas, Considerations, and a Tanghulu Case Study Part VI: Possibilities
29. Busting the Myth of ‘Leaderless’ Movements: Crowd-Enabled Elites in Digitally Networked Activism
30. Digital Resistance under Authoritarianism: A Comparative Study of Activist Publics across Five Countries
31. Participatory War and Social Media: Discursive, Material, and Ethical Dimensions
32. Who Wins the Engagement Race? Examining Normalization and Equalization Theories across 12 Ibero-American Countries