Includes bibliographical references and index.

The pamphlet meets API: an overview of social movements in the age of digital media / Emily Stacey -- Approaches to development in M4D studies: an overview of major approaches / Jakob Svensson, Caroline Wamala Larsson -- Utopia, labor, and informational capitalism: lights and shadows of social media / Marco Briziarelli -- Video surveillance: privacy issues and legal compliance / Qasim Mahmood Rajpoot, Christian Damsgaard Jensen -- ICT, media, and the Egyptian revolution: building networks of democracy / Ahmed El Gody -- Internetworked social movements and the promise of politics: a case study of the 15M movement / Julen Figueras -- Microblogs, Jasmine Revolution, and civil unrest: reassessing the emergence of public sphere and civil society in People's Republic of China / Kenneth C. C. Yang, Yowei Kang -- Grassroots political campaign in Russia: Alexey Navalny and transmedia strategies for democratic development / Renira Rampazzo Gambarato, Sergei Andreevich Medvedev -- Designing and implementing e-government projects for democracy and social change in India: actors, behaviours, influences, and fields of play / Shefali Virkar -- Developer challenges as a platform for citizen engagement with open government data: the Australian case / Raul Alberto Caceres, Kelly Royds -- The infomediary campaign in the Philippines as a strategy to alleviate information poverty / Jaime A. Manalo IV [and 3 others].

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"This book is a definitive reference source for the latest scholarly research on the use of the internet, mobile phones, and other digital platforms for political discourse between citizens and governments"--Provided by publisher.

Also available in print.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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