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We are living in a time marked by the evolution of social media and its relation to democracy and governance. Platforms, Protests, and the Challenge of Networked Democracy explores this evolution and the future of networked democracy in chapters that address social media’s outsized impact on the public sphere, the increasing role of misinformation...
This book examines the recent evolution of online spaces and their impact on networked democracy. Through an illuminating mix of theoretical and methodological analysis, contributors provide an understanding of how a range of individuals and groups, including activists and NGOs, governments and griefers, are using digital technologies to influence...
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In this article, we address the use of metatags as a form of community knowledge formation and gatekeeping within digital platforms.
Situating the case:
The subReddit KotakuInAction is a well-known hub of the GamerGate community on Reddit,...
"In the end, GamerGate activism resembles a churn of constant invention, moving from one celebrity to another, whether as friend or foe . Rather than possessing a single, authoritative argument, GamerGate welcomed whatever argument caught fire."
Background: This case study examines how users of varied experience levels interact with an open-access content-management system (CMS) that lacks managed leadership. In particular, this case study compared how experienced and new users performed at a variety of tasks in a nonprofit community wiki to evaluate skill acquisition and possible skill lo...
In this paper, I begin the process of examining the value of organizational documentation in evaluating social media activism. I take a rhetorical analysis approach to some of the documentation associated with the GamerGate movement and compare traits within the documentation to social media artifacts and metadata to determine how well the document...
