Digital Party - Political Organisation and Online Democracy

Informationen zum Autor Paolo Gerbaudo is lecturer in digital culture and society at King's College London and the author of Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism , also published by Pluto Press. Klappentext From the Five Star Movement to Podemos, from the Pirate Parties to La France Insoumise, from the movements behind Bernie Sanders to those backing Jeremy Corbyn, the last decade has witnessed the rise of a new blueprint for political organisation: the digital party. Paolo Gerbaudo addresses the organisational revolution that is transforming political parties in the time of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Cambridge Analytica. Drawing on interviews with political leaders and organisers, Gerbaudo demonstrates that besides rapidly growing in votes, these formations have also revitalised party democracy, involving hundreds of thousands in discussions carried out on online decision-making platforms. Participatory, yet plebiscitarian, open and democratic, yet dominated by charismatic 'hyperleaders', digital parties display both great potentials and risks for the development of new forms of mass participation in an era of growing inequality. All political parties will have to reckon with the lessons of the digital party. Zusammenfassung How political parties have changed in the age of social media.

Product details

• Authors: Paolo Gerbaudo
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780745335797
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3579-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Digital Barricades; Digital Barricades
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Soziologie, Medientheorie, Medienwissenschaft, Europa, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Politik, Politische Parteien, Computing & IT: Benutzerhandbücher, Politischer Aktivismus, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Protest - Protestbewegung, Partei (politisch), Innerparteilich, Digital / Digitalisierung (Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft)