Platforms, Protests, and the Challenge of Networked Democracy

lt;p>John Jones is an Associate Professor at The Ohio State University, USA, where he is Director of Digital Media Studies in the Department of English. 

Michael Trice is a Lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, in the Writing, Rhetoric, and Professional Communication program.

1. Introduction.- 2. Platform Utopianism after Democracy.- 3. Inside the Swarm: Cognition, Conformity, and the Affective Instruments of the Social Web.- 4. The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Networks: Heterogeneity in the Effect of Technology on Collective Action Mobilization.- 5. Social Media Effects: Hijacking Democracy and Civility in Civic Engagement.- 6. Reasons of the Heart: Political Applications of Emotion Analytics.- 7. Cyber Creeps: The Alt-right and the Evolution of Social Media Hatemakers.- 8. Third Spaces, Sequencing, and Intertextuality: (De)Constructing Misinformation and Fake News.- 9. Subverting the Platform Flexibility of Twitter to Spread Misinformation.- 10. Creation of an Alt-Left Boogeyman: Information Economics and the Emergence of 'Antifa'.- 11. Tweeting Inequity: @realDonaldTrump and the World Leader Exception.- 12. Extrapolating Ideological Divisions in the Indian Public Sphere through Online Twitter Conversations.- 13. Digital Solidarity in Times of Crisis: The Case of Greece.- 14. #Metoo in China: Affordances and Constraints of Social Media Platforms.- 15. Trump Daddy.- 16. Censorship and Digital Dissent in the Kashmir Conflict.- 17. The Fifth Estate Joins the Debate: The Political Roles of Live Commentary in the First Televised Presidential Debate of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.- 18. "Just Don't Put It on Our Mauna": Sovereignty and Algorithms in Digital Democracy.