Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. The interdisciplinary fields of political engineering, public policy engineering, computational politics, and computational public policy
  • Chapter 2. Type-one and interval type-two fuzzy logic for quantitatively defining imprecise linguistic terms in politics and public policy
  • Chapter 3. A research design for the examination of political empowerment through social media
  • Chapter 4. Political campaigning by super pacs in the computer age
  • Chapter 5. The wisconsin spring after two gubernatorial elections
  • Chapter 6. Fake news, hate speech and Nigeria's struggle for democratic consolidation: a conceptual review
  • Chapter 7. Digital campaigning in France, a Wide Wild Web?: emergence and evolution of the market and its players
  • Chapter 8. Personalization online: effects of online campaigns by party leaders on images of party leaders held by voters
  • Chapter 9. Preaching to the choir: coordinating strategic voting on facebook during the 2018 Hungarian election campaign
  • Chapter 10. Political campaign communication in the information age: some difficulties with basic concepts
  • Chapter 11. The use of Twitter during the 2013 protests in Brazil: mainstream media at stake
  • Chapter 12. Can revolutionary media be made online?
  • Chapter 13. M5s (five star movement) and the national political campaign: new media and old-fashioned trust
  • Chapter 14. Identifying influential users in twitter networks of the Turkish diaspora in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany
  • Chapter 15. Rise and fall of digital activism in Mexico from 2000-2019
  • Chapter 16. Intermediality and critical engagement in Nigerian Twitter memes
  • Chapter 17. Organizing with self-organization?: the ramifications of the strategic use of facebook in informal civic activism
  • Chapter 18. Context, frame, opportunity, and resource: contemporary Portuguese anti-austerity social movements with a view to social media
  • Chapter 19. Anything new under the sun?: social movements and virtual social networks in comparative perspective.