Social Dynamics of the Internet

This module from the Oxford Internet Institute MSc in the Social Science of the Internet looks very helpful in regard to the diss. 

Taught by > Ralph Schroeder > (His current research is related to digital media and right-wing populism) and Mariarosaria Taddeo

1. Climate Change and Online (Dis)Information > how do social media affect public attitudes towards climate change? What kinds of social media give rise to climate change skepticism, and to protest or activism? Developing policies related to a sustainable future is one of the great challenges of our time: What kinds of actionable insights can be gained from digital media data, including large-scale data as well as qualitative analyses, about changing attitudes to climate change?

 

Chapter 15: Are social media making constructive climate policymaking harder? in Contemporary Climate Change Debates: A Student Primer > Chapter  by Mike S. Schäfer; Peter North Essential

 

The social media life of climate change: Platforms, publics, and future imaginaries inWiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change > Article  by Pearce; Pearce, Warren 03/2019  Essential

Who speaks for climate change in China? Evidence from Weibo in Climatic Change

Article  by Liu; Liu, John 01/02/2017  

 

Lie machines: how to save democracy from troll armies, deceitful robots, junk news operations, and political operatives > Book  by Philip N. Howard; JSTOR (Organization) 2020 Recommended

Reading intention: Undecided

The Oxford encyclopedia of climate change communication

Book  by Oxford University Press 2018  Recommended

 

How ‘Digital-born’ media cover climate change in comparison to legacy media: A case study of the COP 21 summit in Paris in Global Environmental Change > Article  by Painter; Painter, James 01/01/2018  

4. The Responsibilities of Online Service Providers >It has also provided new means for citizens to participate in the political debate, organise civic action, and acquire information. At the same time, the internet has also enabled and facilitated the circulation of fake news, propaganda and demagogy, which may lead to severe risks for democratic and participative processes.

 

The Debate on the Moral Responsibilities of Online Service Providers in Science and Engineering EthicsArticle  by Mariarosaria Taddeo; Luciano Floridi 12/2016 Essential

 

The “Arbiters of What Our Voters See”: Facebook and Google’s Struggle with Policy, Process, and Enforcement around Political Advertisingin Political Communication

Article  by Daniel Kreiss; Shannon C. Mcgregor 02/10/2019 Essential

Governing online platforms: From contested to cooperative responsibility in The Information Society

Article  by Natali Helberger; Jo Pierson; Thomas Poell 01/01/2018 

Big data and the global economy in 2017 Tenth International Conference Management of Large-Scale System Development (MLSD)Article  by N. I. Didenko; D. F. Skripnuk; O. V. Mirolyubova 10/2017  

Does Great Power Come with Great Responsibility? The Need to Talk About Corporate Political Responsibilityin The Responsibilities of Online Service Providers > Chapter  by Dennis Broeders; Linnet Taylor Recommended

 

7. Digital Media and Populism

 

The digital party: political organisation and online democracy

Book  by Paolo Gerbaudo; JSTOR (Organization) 2019 Recommended

8. Political Participation and Contentious Politics 

Digital media increasingly measure audiences: not just clicks, but how long people stay on sites and how they navigate across content. Do media systems, the boundaries of nation-states, shape information, or do digital media, including search engines and social media, do so? As online media increasingly replace offline ones, is there a greater concentration of what people attention to, or more diversity? What are the commercial imperatives of digital media companies in an increasingly competitive online environment? Finally, how do uses of information in everyday life help us to understand this changing landscape? A number of studies have found that, rather than democratizing the sources of information, search concentrates attention on a few dominant sites. How do search engines shape access – via commercial dominance, link structure, or user skills (or lack of skills)? Can theories of gatekeeping shed light on the dissemination of information in everyday life? 

 

 

Quantifying the power and consequences of social media protest in New Media & Society

Article  by Freelon; Freelon, Deen 03/2018 

 

#hashtagactivism: Networks of Race and Gender Justice

 

Chapter 5 in Retooling politics : how digital media are shaping democracy

Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age > Jun Liu