Virtual Politics

Author : Andrew Wilson,Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300095457

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Virtual Politics by Andrew Wilson,Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire Andrew Wilson Pdf

States like Russia and Ukraine may not have gone back to totalitarianism or the traditional authoritarian formula of stuffing the ballot box, cowing the population and imprisoning the opposition - or not obviously. But a whole industry of 'political technology' has developed instead, with shadowy private firms and government 'fixers' on lucrative contracts dedicated to the black arts of organizing electoral success. This book uncovers the sophisticated techniques of the 'virtual' political system used to legitimize post-Soviet regimes; entire fake parties, phantom political rivals and 'scarecrow' opponents. And it exposes the paramount role of the mass media in projecting these creations and in falsifying the entire political process. Wilson argues that it is not primarily economic problems that have made it so difficult to develop meaningful democracy in the former Soviet world. Although the West also has its 'spin doctors', dirty tricks, and aggressive ad campaigns, it is the unique post-Bolshevik culture of 'political technology' that is the main obstacle to better governance in the region, to real popular participation in public affairs, and to the modernization of the political economy in the longer term.

Author : David Holmes
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022841188

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Virtual Politics by David Holmes Pdf

This examination of identity, community and cyberspace shows how new technologies are altering the nature of identity, the relation of the self to other, and the structure of community and political representation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Communication in politics
ISBN : OCLC:1002377171

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Virtual Politics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ruxandra Trandafoiu
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857459442

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Diaspora Online by Ruxandra Trandafoiu Pdf

After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, millions of Romanians emigrated in search of work and new experiences; they became engaged in an interrogation of what it meant to be Romanian in a united Europe and the globalized world. Their thoughts, feelings and hopes soon began to populate the virtual world of digital and mobile technologies. This book chronicles the online cultural and political expressions of the Romanian diaspora using websites based in Europe and North America. Through online exchanges, Romanians perform new types of citizenship, articulated from the margins of the political field. The politicization of their diasporic condition is manifested through written and public protests against discriminatory work legislation, mobilization, lobbying, cultural promotion and setting up associations and political parties that are proof of the gradual institutionalization of informal communications. Online discourse analysis, supplemented by interviews with migrants, poets and politicians involved in the process of defining new diasporic identities, provide the basis of this book, which defines the new cultural and political practices of the Romanian diaspora.

Author : Richard Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781135433635

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Politics Online by Richard Davis Pdf

Despite the growth of various forms of online discussion, their impact on American political life is only beginning to be examined systematically. In Politics Online Richard Davis provides a thorough analysis detailing the political attitudes, behavior, and demographic nature of the electronic discussion community contrasting that community with the general public.

Author : Elizabeth Mathews Losh
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262123044

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Virtualpolitik by Elizabeth Mathews Losh Pdf

Government media-making, from official websites to whistleblowers' e-mail, and its sometimes unintended consequences. Today government agencies not only have official Web sites but also sponsor moderated chats, blogs, digital video clips, online tutorials, videogames, and virtual tours of national landmarks. Sophisticated online marketing campaigns target citizens with messages from the government--even as officials make news with digital gaffes involving embarrassing e-mails, instant messages, and videos. In Virtualpolitik, Elizabeth Losh closely examines the government's digital rhetoric in such cases and its dual role as mediamaker and regulator. Looking beyond the usual focus on interfaces, operations, and procedures, Losh analyzes the ideologies revealed in government's digital discourse, its anxieties about new online practices, and what happens when officially sanctioned material is parodied, remixed, or recontextualized by users. Losh reports on a video game that panicked the House Intelligence Committee, pedagogic and therapeutic digital products aimed at American soldiers, government Web sites in the weeks and months following 9/11, PowerPoint presentations by government officials and gadflies, e-mail as a channel for whistleblowing, digital satire of surveillance practices, national digital libraries, and computer-based training for health professionals. Losh concludes that the government's "virtualpolitik"--its digital realpolitik aimed at preserving its own power--is focused on regulation, casting as criminal such common online activities as file sharing, video-game play, and social networking. This policy approach, she warns, indefinitely postpones building effective institutions for electronic governance, ignores constituents' need to shape electronic identities to suit their personal politics, and misses an opportunity to learn how citizens can have meaningful interaction with the virtual manifestations of the state.

Author : Gaurav Desai
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000059243

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The Virtual Transformation of the Public Sphere by Gaurav Desai Pdf

This book explores how new media technologies such as e-mails, online forums, blogs and social networking sites have helped shape new forms of public spheres. Offering new readings of Jürgen Habermas’s notion of the public sphere, scholars from diverse disciplines interrogate the power and possibilities of new media in creating and disseminating public information; changing human communication at the interpersonal, institutional and societal levels; and affecting our self-fashioning as private and public individuals. Beginning with philosophical approaches to the subject, the book goes on to explore the innovative deployment of new media in areas as diverse as politics, social activism, piracy, sexuality, ethnic identity and education. The book will immensely interest those in media, culture and gender studies, philosophy, political science, sociology and anthropology.

Author : Glen Lewis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134217670

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Virtual Thailand by Glen Lewis Pdf

Written by an established expert on Thailand, this is one of the first books to fully investigate the Thai media’s role during the Thaksin government’s first term. Incorporating political economy and media theory, the book provides a unique insight into globalization in Southeast Asia, analyzing the role of communications and media in regional cultural politics. Examining the period from the mid 1990s, Lewis makes a sustained comparison between Thailand and its neighbouring countries in relation to the media, business, politics and popular culture. Covering issues including business development, tourism, the Thai movie industry and the war on terror, the book argues that globalization as it relates to media, can be patterned on Thai experiences.

Author : Celia Romm-Livermore
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015047505568

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Virtual Politicking by Celia Romm-Livermore Pdf

This text defines the phenomenon of politicking with e-mail in organizational settings. It outlines a model that explains and predicts the usage, and discusses the opportunities and threats that are associated with it. The book also speculates about evolving and future political uses of e-mail.

Author : Peter M. Shane
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0415948649

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Democracy Online by Peter M. Shane Pdf

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Joseph Fewsmith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108831253

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Rethinking Chinese Politics by Joseph Fewsmith Pdf

A comprehensive but accessible examination of how elite Chinese politics work covering the period from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping.

Author : Avidit Acharya,Matthew Blackwell,Maya Sen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691203720

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Deep Roots by Avidit Acharya,Matthew Blackwell,Maya Sen Pdf

"Despite dramatic social transformations in the United States during the last 150 years, the South has remained staunchly conservative. Southerners are more likely to support Republican candidates, gun rights, and the death penalty, and southern whites harbor higher levels of racial resentment than whites in other parts of the country. Why haven't these sentiments evolved or changed? Deep Roots shows that the entrenched political and racial views of contemporary white southerners are a direct consequence of the region's slaveholding history, which continues to shape economic, political, and social spheres. Today, southern whites who live in areas once reliant on slavery--compared to areas that were not--are more racially hostile and less amenable to policies that could promote black progress. Highlighting the connection between historical institutions and contemporary political attitudes, the authors explore the period following the Civil War when elite whites in former bastions of slavery had political and economic incentives to encourage the development of anti-black laws and practices. Deep Roots shows that these forces created a local political culture steeped in racial prejudice, and that these viewpoints have been passed down over generations, from parents to children and via communities, through a process called behavioral path dependence. While legislation such as the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act made huge strides in increasing economic opportunity and reducing educational disparities, southern slavery has had a profound, lasting, and self-reinforcing influence on regional and national politics that can still be felt today. A groundbreaking look at the ways institutions of the past continue to sway attitudes of the present, Deep Roots demonstrates how social beliefs persist long after the formal policies that created those beliefs have been eradicated."--Jacket.

Author : James Brook,Iain A. Boal
Publisher : City Lights Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Computer networks
ISBN : UOM:39015031712550

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Resisting the Virtual Life by James Brook,Iain A. Boal Pdf

A variety of contributors gauge the impact of the new video, computer, and networked communications on the ways of life in a restructured world, exposing relations of power and dependence and offering strategies of resistance.

Author : Andrew Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009355315

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Political Technology by Andrew Wilson Pdf

'Political technology' is a Russian term for the professional engineering of politics. It has turned Russian politics into theatre and propaganda, and metastasised to take over foreign policy and weaponise history. The war against Ukraine is one outcome. In the West, spin doctors and political consultants do more than influence media or run campaigns: they have also helped build parallel universes of alternative political reality. Hungary has used political technology to dismantle democracy. The BJP in India has used it to consolidate unprecedented power. Different countries learn from each other. Some types of political technology have become notorious, like troll farms or data mining; but there is now a global wholesale industry selling a range of manipulation techniques, from astroturfing to fake parties to propaganda apps. This book shows that 'political technology' is about much more than online disinformation: it is about whole new industries of political engineering.

Author : P. Frissen
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015047568970

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Politics, Governance, and Technology by P. Frissen Pdf

This work offers a polemic and postmodern narrative on politics and also provides a modern synthesis of an extensive and productive research programme in public administration. It argues that the interdependencies between politics, governance and technology have created a virtual state.