02967cam a22003858i 450000100090000000300070000900500170001600800410003301000170007402000250009102000250011602000250014104000320016604200080019804300120020605000230021810000330024124501350027426300090040926400350041830000110045333600260046433700280049033800270051850400510054552015080059665000620210465000710216665000730223765000420231065000310235265500240238370000370240777601370244423727470US-DLC20250114140016.0240611s2025    nyu      b    001 0 eng    a  2024020784  z9781032478845q(hbk)  a9781032478821q(pbk)  z9781003386377q(ebk)  aDLCbengerdacDLCdDLCdAU  apcc  an-us---00aJF799.5b.L44 20251 aLee, James Jaehoon,eauthor.10aSocial media and digital politics :bnetworked reason in an age of digital emotion /cJames Jaehoon Lee and Jeffrey Layne Blevins.  a2410 1aNew York :bRoutledge,c©2025  a149 p:  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.  a"Informed by critical theory, this book employs Social Network Analysis (SNA) to examine the ever-increasing impact that social media has on politics and contemporary civic discourse. In just the past decade social media platforms have been at the forefront of political discord that played out in the January 6th insurrection, the expulsion of a U.S. President from major social media platforms, the attempted regulation of social media in various states, and the takeover of Twitter (now "X") by one of the richest and (arguably) most financially influential persons in the world. This book examines these phenomena through a comprehensive and in-depth exploration of their meaning and implication for democratic society. Informed by SNA, James Jaehoon Lee and Jeffrey Layne Blevins examine several types of social and political commentary on one of the most influential social media networks and argue that the use of emotional appeals in these posts about social and political topics degrades the quality of civic discourse and encourages the abandonment of reasoning in democratic self-governance. A timely and vital text for upper-level students and scholars in a variety of disciplines from media and communication studies, journalism, digital humanities to social network analysis, political science, and sociology. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license"-- 0aOnline social networksxPolitical activityy21st century. 0aPolitical participationxTechnological innovationszUnited States. 0aCommunication in politicsxTechnological innovationszUnited States. 0aInternet and activismzUnited States. 0aSocial networksxResearch. 02localaPrint books.1 aBlevins, Jeffrey Layne,eauthor.08iOnline version:aLee, James Jaehoon.tSocial media and digital politicsdNew York : Routledge, 2025z9781003386377w(DLC) 2024020785