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

Fri Oct 16 12:47:21 PDT 2015

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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>> http://natpoor.blogspot.com/
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>>
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