Edited by Stephen Coleman, Professor of Political Communication and Lone Sorensen, Associate Professor of Political Communication, University of Leeds, UK

• Contents:Introduction to the Handbook of Digital Politics (Second Edition) xiStephen Coleman and Lone SorensenPART I WAYS OF SEEING, LISTENING TO AND WRITINGABOUT DIGITAL POLITICS1 A rhetoric of digital politics 2Stephen Coleman and Lone Sorensen2 De-Westernizing digital politics: a Global South viewpoint 15Bruce Mutsvairo, Fabíola Ortiz dos Santos and Tenford Chitanana3 Visual digital politics: imag(in)ing political activities andidentities online 29Katy Parry4 Revolution vs reaction: the role of social media inauthoritarian regimes 43Anna Litvinenko5 Transnational and global flows of political discussion online 56Yuan ZengPART II CITIZENSHIP AND POLITICAL TALK6 The Internet as a civic space 73Peter Dahlgren7 Political filter bubbles and fragmented publics 88Cristian Vaccari and Augusto Valeriani8 Computational approaches to online political expression:a framework for research 106Mengyu Li, Luhang Sun, Yiming Wang, Yibing Sun, Hyerin Kwon,Jiyoun Suk, JungHwan Yang and Dhavan V. Shah9 Creating spaces for online deliberation 132Christopher Birchall and Stephen Coleman10 New frontiers in two-screen politics 150Nick Anstead and Ben O’Loughlin11 Gen Z’s civic engagement: news use, politics, and culturalengagement 163Ava Francesca Battocchio, Chris Wells, Emily Vraga, KjerstinThorson, Stephanie Edgerly and Leticia Bode12 Gen Z’s civic engagement: civic skills, political expression,and identity 175Ava Francesca Battocchio, Leticia Bode, Chris Wells, Emily Vraga,Kjerstin Thorson and Stephanie EdgerlyPART III TECHNOLOGY AND PLATFORMS13 Becoming eventful through data: the mediated construction ofhistoric events in the age of data 189Heather Ford14 Algorithms, power and digital politics 202Ulrike Klinger15 Social media digital architectures: a platform-first approach topolitical communication and participation 219Michael Bossetta16 Artificial intelligence in politics 235Leah Henrickson17 Online content moderation during conflict 252Giovanni De Gregorio and Nicole StremlauPART IV CONTENTIOUS POLITICS, CIVIL ANDNETWORKED SOCIETY18 The Fifth Estate: a new source of democratic accountability 265William H. Dutton and Elizabeth Dubois19 The logic of connective action: digital media and thepersonalization of contentious politics 280W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg20 Media ecologies, social movements and activism 306Emiliano Treré21 E-petitioning and changing state–citizen engagement 320Scott Wright and Ariadne Vromen22 From Valencia filters to #BlackOutTuesday: collective actionon Instagram 331Elena Sotelo-Prol23 Post-Soviet digital democratization experiments: the promiseand reality 346Yuri MisnikovPART V POLITICAL PARTIES, LEADERS AND GOVERNANCE24 The digital performance of populism 362Thomas Wellings and Lone Sorensen25 Political communication about data 380Brendan Lawson26 Regulation of election communication 393Damian TambiniPART VI JOURNALISM, APPARENT JOURNALISM ANDMEDIA INSTITUTIONS27 Social media as resources for journalistic struggle in politicallyrestrictive settings 410Banafsheh Ranji28 Fake news and digital politics 424Bente Kalsnes29 Right-wing alternative news media and digital politics 436Kristoffer Holt30 Research on the political implications of political entertainment 449Michael A. XenosIndex

‘Political processes and digital communication continue to collide and intersect in new and unforeseen ways, and rarely fail to generate crises and controversies, but also hopes and opportunities, as they do so. This magnificent collection takes a timely and sober look at current developments, and offers a comprehensive overview of cutting-edge research in the field.’