Politics & Technology Books

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1. Political Marketing

   Strategic 'Campaign Culture'

   Edited by Kostas Gouliamos, Antonis Theocharous, Bruce I. Newman

   Series: Routledge Research in Political Communication

   A guiding principle in creating Political Marketing has been to examine the ways in which culture, politics, and society interrelate in the field of political marketing. In the course of the book, the editors and contributors consider ‘culture’ as a distinctive concept with transformative...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. Online Reporting of Elections

   Edited by Einar Thorsen

   Series: Journalism Studies

   This book contributes to debates concerning online reporting of elections and the challenges facing journalism in the context of democratic change. The speed of technological adaptation by journalists and their audiences means online news is gradually becoming a normalised part of media landscapes...

   Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge
3. Cyberspace Law

   Censorship and Regulation of the Internet

   Edited by Hannibal Travis

   This book explores what the American Civil Liberties Union calls the "third era" in cyberspace, in which filters "fundamentally alter the architectural structure of the Internet, with significant implications for free speech." Although courts and nongovernmental organizations increasingly insist...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi

   Social, Political and Environmental Issues

   Edited by Richard Hindmarsh

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi is a timely and groundbreaking account of the disturbing landscape of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown amidst an earthquake and tsunami on Japan’s northeast coastline on March 11, 2011. It provides riveting insights into the social and...

   Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
5. Power, Resistance and Conflict in the Contemporary World

   Social movements, networks and hierarchies

   By Athina Karatzogianni, Andrew Robinson

   Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

   This book examines issues of organisation in resistance movements, discussing topics including the integration of the world system, the intersection of networks with discourses of identity, and the possibility of social transformation. Drawing on a number of theorists including Deleuze and...

   Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Politics of Knowledge

   Edited by Patrick Baert, Fernando Domínguez Rubio

   Social scientists often refer to contemporary advanced societies as ‘knowledge societies’, which indicates the extent to which ‘science’, ‘knowledge’ and ‘knowledge production’ have become fundamental phenomena in Western societies and central concerns for the social sciences. This book aims to...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Arab Revolutions and World Transformations

   Edited by Anna Agathangelou, Nevzat Soguk

   Series: Rethinking Globalizations

   Stories about institutions and regimes that have failed us are echoing worldwide. This book critically engages the multiple uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) following the self-immolation of Tunisian street vendor Mohamed Bouazizi in December 2010. It brings together authors who...

   Published January 21st 2013 by Routledge
8. Coloured Revolutions and Authoritarian Reactions

   Edited by Evgeny Finkel, Yitzhak M. Brudny

   Series: Democratization Special Issues

   Between 2000 and 2005, colour revolutions swept away authoritarian and semi-authoritarian regimes in Serbia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine. Yet, after these initial successes, attempts to replicate the strategies failed to produce regime change elsewhere in the region. The book argues that...

   Published January 7th 2013 by Routledge
9. Political Marketing in Retrospective and Prospective

   Edited by Christine B. Williams, Bruce I. Newman

   Political marketing coalesced as a subfield in the mid-1990s, and in 2002 the Journal of Political Marketing began publication. This anniversary collection reviews the existing theory, empirical evidence and practice of political marketing and explores emerging topics and lines of inquiry within...

   Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge
10. Public Sector Transformation through E-Government

    Experiences from Europe and North America

    Edited by Vishanth Weerakkody, Christopher G. Reddick

    Series: Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology

    Over the last decade governments in Europe and North America have attempted to improve efficiency of public services through Information and Communication Technology, commonly branded as electronic government (e-government). Public Sector Transformation through E-Government explores the influence...

    Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge