This Elgar Research Agenda showcases insights from leading researchers on the charged issues and questions that lie ahead in the multidisciplinary field of digital politics. Covering the political implications of the Internet, social media, datafication and computational analytics, it looks to the future of how research might address the political challenges of the digital age and maps the key emerging trends in this field.

Contributors outline and engage with major questions related to the transformation of campaigns, elections and political partisanship through digital media, and identify the methodological pathways and problems that impact the field. Exploring the implications of digitisation for governance, democracy, privacy, surveillance, advocacy, activism, and political talk, this book highlights the emergent ethical issues that will shape the future of this burgeoning focus of research.

Featuring crucial insights into an increasingly pertinent subject, this Research Agenda will be key reading for researchers and graduate students of Internet studies, new media studies and political science. Policy makers, political consultants and anyone with a serious interest in research into digital politics will also benefit from this book's forward-looking approach.

Contributors include: N. Anstead, J.G. Blumler, A. Chadwick, S. Coleman, A. Drew, E. Dubois, W.H. Dutton, L. Fernandez, H. Ford, M.I. Franklin, P. Gerbaudo, D. Karpf, L. Lievrouw, W.-Y. Lin, F. Martin-Bariteau, D. McDowell-Naylor, G. Moss, B. O'Loughlin, P. Rossini, V. Schneider, L. Sorenson, S. Wright, X. Zhang

About the Author
Edited by William H. Dutton, Emeritus Professor, University of Southern California, US, Senior Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford Martin Fellow, Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre, University of Oxford and Visiting Professor, School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK

Reviews
'This rich Research Agenda brings leading international scholars together to rethink the agenda of communication research in the digital age. These perspectives on studying democratic public spheres as they are being reshaped by digital and social media makes this book essential reading.'
--W. Lance Bennett, Center for Communication & Civic Engagement, US

'The aptly titled A Research Agenda for Digital Politics, edited by William Dutton, addresses the core scholarly, normative, and applied questions raised by the 21st century information environment. Organized around the interrelated themes of ''transformations and continuities'', ''campaigns and elections'', ''Institutional transformation'', ''informational, symbolic, and communicative actions'', and ''reshaping democratic processes and discourses'', the chapters in this volume, written by an interdisciplinary mix of established and emerging scholars, collectively reject simplistic notions of technological determinism, and dystopian or utopian perspectives. In their place are thoughtfully-framed questions amenable to reliable and valid empirical research. As such it is a timely and much-needed blueprint for the emerging field of digital politics.'
--Michael X. Delli Carpini, University of Pennsylvania, US

'A forward-looking guide for understanding the collision between digital and political worlds and what this entanglement means for society.'
--Laura DeNardis, American University, US

Book Information
ISBN 9781789903089
Author William H. Dutton
Format Hardback
Page Count 264
Imprint Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Publisher Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd