[Air-L] New book: Handbook of Digital Politics

Fri Oct 16 12:50:41 PDT 2015

I can´t agree mor with Christian Fuchs. And an expensive book in developed
countries is a forbidden one in developing countries.
Best,

Alejandro Tortolini
University of San Andres
Argentina

2015-10-16 16:47 GMT-03:00 Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs at uti.at>:

> Hello
>
> I contributed to the volume and think it is a very good book.
>
> But I also think that it is too expensive - both the paper edition and the
> ebook (also €40 for an ebook is a lot).
>
> Handbooks and companions seem at the moment to be a very popular capital
> accumulation strategy among conventional publishers...
>
> We nowadays all too often end up with books that have great contents and
> that nobody can read/afford...
>
> Open access book publishing is an alternative, but many of its models just
> want to put the costs for it on the author-side with high book publishing
> fees, which is also not acceptable... And non-profit OA book publishers
> have a good potential - but tend to face a lack of funding and support and
> are often based on lots of voluntary labour and have to be very selective...
>
> There is no good book publishing model at the moment that guarantees
> fair/open access, fair prices for the printed editions, and fair payment of
> workers in the publishing industry... The money that goes into expensive
> library journal subscription should go into funds for non-profit open
> access book and journal publishing, advertising be taxed and redistributed
> to non-profit OA and other non-profit media, etc...
>
> Christian
>
>
> On 16/10/2015 20:28, Deen Freelon wrote:
>
>> Hi all, second editor here--the ebook version is only $40:
>>
>> http://www.ebooks.com/2059341/handbook-of-digital-politics/coleman-stephen-freelon-deen/
>>
>>
>> On 10/16/2015 12:11 PM, Nathaniel Poor wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Stephen-
>>>
>>> Amazon says the list price is $240. I know about library pricing and
>>> such (and have opinions about it), but don’t we want people who don’t
>>> have access to university libraries reading our work?
>>>
>>> I’d love to buy it, but not at that price.
>>>
>>> -Nat
>>>
>>> PS: Yes, a can of worms, I know. I don’t have the answer.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 16, 2015, at 3:08 AM, Stephen Coleman <S.Coleman at leeds.ac.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> List members might be interested in the following new publication:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Handbook of Digital Politics
>>>>
>>>> Edited by Stephen Coleman, Professor of Political Communication,
>>>> School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK and Deen
>>>> Freelon, Assistant Professor, School of Communication, American
>>>> University, Washington, DC, US
>>>>
>>>> Published by Edward Elgar
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Contents:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Introduction: Conceptualising Digital Politics
>>>> Stephen Coleman and Deen Freelon
>>>>
>>>> PART I THEORIZING DIGITAL POLITICS
>>>> 2. The Internet as a Civic Space
>>>> Peter Dahlgren
>>>>
>>>> 3. The Social Foundations of Future Digital Politics
>>>> Nick Couldry
>>>>
>>>> 4. The Fifth Estate: A Rising Force of Pluralistic Accountability
>>>> William H. Dutton and Elizabeth Dubois
>>>>
>>>> 5. Silicon Valley Ideology and Class Inequality: A Virtual Poll Tax
>>>> on Digital Politics
>>>> Jen Schradie
>>>>
>>>> PART II GOVERNMENT AND POLICY
>>>> 6. Online Voting Advice Applications: Foci, Findings and Future of an
>>>> Emerging Research Field
>>>> Fadi Hirzalla and Liesbet van Zoonen
>>>>
>>>> 7. Internet Voting: The State of the Debate
>>>> Thad Hall
>>>>
>>>> 8. Digital Campaigning
>>>> Daniel Kreiss
>>>>
>>>> 9. e-Petitions
>>>> Scott Wright
>>>>
>>>> 10. Argumentation Tools for Digital Politics: Addressing the
>>>> Challenge of Deliberation in Democracies
>>>> Neil Benn
>>>>
>>>> PART III COLLECTIVE ACTION AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
>>>> 11. The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and The
>>>> Personalization of Contentious Politics
>>>> W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg
>>>>
>>>> 12. Youth Civic Engagement
>>>> Chris Wells, Emily Vraga, Kjerstin Thorson, Stephanie Edgerly and
>>>> Leticia Bode
>>>>
>>>> 13. Internet Use and Political Engagement in Youth
>>>> Yunhwan Kim and Erik Amnå
>>>>
>>>> PART IV POLITICAL TALK
>>>> 14. Everyday Political Talk in the Internet-Based Public Sphere
>>>> Todd Graham
>>>>
>>>> 15. Creating Spaces for Online Deliberation
>>>> Christopher Birchall and Stephen Coleman
>>>>
>>>> 16. Computational Approaches to Online Political Expression:
>>>> Rediscovering a “Science of the Social”
>>>> Dhavan V. Shah, Kathleen Bartzen Culver, Alex Hanna, Timothy Mcafee,
>>>> and JungHwan Yang
>>>>
>>>> 17. Two-screen Politics: Evidence, Theory and Challenges
>>>> Nick Anstead and Ben O’Loughlin
>>>>
>>>> PART V JOURNALISM
>>>> 18. From News Blogs to News on Twitter: Gatewatching and
>>>> Collaborative News Curation
>>>> Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield
>>>>
>>>> 19. Research on the Political Implications of Political Entertainment
>>>> Michael A. Xenos
>>>>
>>>> 20. Journalism, Gatekeeping and Interactivity
>>>> Neil Thurman
>>>>
>>>> PART VI INTERNET GOVERNANCE
>>>> 21. Internet Governance, Rights and Democratic Legitimacy
>>>> Giles Moss
>>>>
>>>> 22. Social Media Surveillance
>>>> Christian Fuchs
>>>>
>>>> PART VII EXPANDING THE FRONTIERS OF DIGITAL POLITICS RESEARCH
>>>> 23. Visibility and Visualities: ‘Ways of Seeing’ Politics in the
>>>> Digital Media Environment
>>>> Katy Parry
>>>>
>>>> 24. Automated Content Analysis of Online Political Communication
>>>> Ross Petchler and Sandra González-Bailon
>>>>
>>>> 25. On the Cutting Edge of Big Data: Digital Politics Research in the
>>>> Social Computing Literature
>>>> Deen Freelon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ‘The Handbook of Digital Politics edited by Stephen Coleman and Deen
>>>> Freelon is an incredibly rich and outstanding collection of essays on
>>>> the ideologies, theories and methodologies that currently inspire the
>>>> field of political science and communication. The editors brilliantly
>>>> succeed in guiding us through this fascinating world – avoiding any
>>>> rhetoric, or either a dystopian or utopian perspective on the
>>>> subject. The articles collected here represent the golden section of
>>>> the contemporary debate on digital politics.’
>>>> – Leopoldina Fortunati, Head of the Ph.D program in Multimedia
>>>> Communication, University of Udine, Italy
>>>>
>>>> ‘Coleman and Freelon have deftly edited a series of essays that help
>>>> us transition to the next big thing in political communication—an
>>>> internet connecting many people over many kinds of devices, making
>>>> large volumes of data. Digital politics is no longer so much about
>>>> what happens in your browser, but about what happens when your
>>>> devices talk to each other on their own. This collection helps us to
>>>> get ready to understand the new infrastructure of political life.’
>>>> – Philip N. Howard, University of Washington, US
>>>>
>>>> Stephen Coleman
>>>> Professor of Political Communication
>>>> School of Media and Communication
>>>> University of Leeds
>>>>
>>>> Recent publications:
>>>> How Voters Feel:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/politics-international-relations/politics-general-interest/how-voters-feel?format=PB
>>>>
>>>> Can The Media Serve Democracy?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/can-the-media-serve-democracy-stephen-coleman/?K=9781137467911
>>>>
>>>> Handbook of Digital Politics:
>>>> https://www.e-elgar.com/bookentry_main.lasso?currency=US&id=15497
>>>>
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>>> -------------------------------
>>> Nathaniel Poor, Ph.D.
>>> http://natpoor.blogspot.com/
>>> https://sites.google.com/site/natpoor/
>>>
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>>
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> University of Westminster,
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