Digital Party - Political Organisation and Online Democracy

Informationen zum Autor Paolo Gerbaudo is the Director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King's College, London. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets (2012), and The Mask and the Flag (2017). Klappentext From the Pirate Parties in Northern Europe to Podemos in Spain and the 5-Star Movement in Italy, from the movements behind Bernie Sanders in the United States and Jeremy Corbyn in the United Kingdom, to Jean-Luc Melenchon's presidential bid in France, the last decade has witnessed the rise of a new blueprint for political organization: the digital party. These new political formations tap into the potential of social media to gain consensus, and use online participatory platforms to include the rank-and-file. Paolo Gerbaudo looks at the restructuring of political parties and campaigns in the time of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and big data. Drawing on interviews with key political leaders and digital organizers, he argues that the digital party is very different from the class-based "mass party" of the industrial era, and offers promising new solutions to social polarization and the failures of liberal democracy today. Zusammenfassung How political parties have changed in the age of social media.

Product details

• Authors: Paolo Gerbaudo, Gerbaudo Paolo
• 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, Media Studies, Political Parties, Politische Parteien, Computing & IT: Benutzerhandbücher, Politischer Aktivismus, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Protest - Protestbewegung, Partei (politisch), Innerparteilich, Digital / Digitalisierung (Politik, Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft), COMPUTERS / Networking / Local Area Networks (LANs), 21st Century, Digital lifestyle, Political structures: democracy, Media studies: internet, digital media and society, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Political parties and party platforms