[Air-L] Book Announcement: Handbook of Research on Politics in the Computer Age

[Ashu M. G. Solo]

Handbook of Research on Politics in the Computer Age

Editor:  Ashu M. G. Solo
ISBN13:  9781799803775; ISBN10:  1799803775; EISBN13:  9781799803782; DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-0377-5

https://www.igi-global.com/book/handbook-research-politics-computer-age/228093

Technology and particularly the Internet have caused many changes in the realm of politics.  Aspects of engineering, computer science, mathematics, or natural science can be applied to politics.  Politicians and candidates use their own websites and social network profiles to get their message out.  Revolutions in many countries in the Middle East and North Africa have started in large part due to social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter.  Social networking has also played a role in protests and riots in numerous countries.  The mainstream media no longer has a monopoly on political commentary as anybody can set up a blog or post a video online.  Political activists can network together online. 

Handbook of Research on Politics in the Computer Age includes 19 research chapters from 27 researchers at 20 universities and research organizations in Belgium, Brazil, Cape Verde, Egypt, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Portugal, and the United States of America.  They have done research studies on different aspects of politics with information technology, engineering, computer science, or math.  This book strongly increases our understanding of methods for politics in the computer age, the effectiveness of these methods, and tools for analyzing these methods.   

Some topics covered:

• Political engineering, computational politics, public policy engineering, and computational public policy
• Fuzzy logic in politics and public policy
• Online campaigning
• Online activism
• Politics on social networks
• Political blogs, vlogs, and websites
• Online political communications
• Fake news
• Case studies

Book webpage:  https://www.igi-global.com/book/handbook-research-politics-computer-age/228093