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Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures

New Approaches for Historicising, Politicising and Imagining the Digital
2023 ᛫


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Summary


Global politics has been completely transformed by the rise of digitalisation and the politicised use of everyday digital communication tools by ordinary people in citizen engagement and mass protest. And yet, digital politics as a field is rarely explored holistically and interdisciplinary beyond a narrow focus on digital activism, digital warfare or Internet governance.


Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures addresses this gap. Bringing together contributions from junior and experienced scholars, the book examines digital politics theoretically, methodologically, and ethically, offering interdisciplinary perspectives and innovative pedagogies. The first part of the book presents research chapters that look at misinformation and reactionary online activism, digital imperialism and capitalism, future internet governance, digital memory, digital waste, and environmental imagination. The second part showcases several creative and experimental tools for studying digital politics historically, and for analysing and creating future imaginaries of digital politics. By sharing these tools and reflecting on the process of their creation, the book aims to simultaneously push the boundaries of, and inspire new teaching and research in, the field of digital politics.

Table of contents

  • Introduction: Crafting new approaches for historising, politicising and imagining the digital; Adi Kuntsman and Liu Xin

  • Part I. Theories, Concepts, Explorations
  • Chapter 1. Digital Politics: Defining, exploring and challenging the field; Athina Karatzogianni and Jonathan Ong
  • Chapter 2. Social Media, the Archives of Tomorrow; Nermin Elsherif
  • Chapter 3. Activism and the Anti-Vaccination Movement; Howard Grice
  • Chapter 4. The Scattered Nature or Sovereign Surveillance: On Internet Models in the Context of Tomorrow; Kris Kaleta
  • Chapter 5. A post-developmental critique of digital development and digital capitalism; Emeka Joseph Nwankwo
  • Chapter 6. Dirty, toxic, dumped: Waste as data metaphor; Laura Savolainen
  • Part II. Methodologies, Pedagogies, Imaginaries
  • Chapter 7. Historicising Digital Research: From the histories of the digital to histories written through the digital; Nermin Elsherif
  • Chapter 8. Sociotechnical imaginaries as an analytical tool for examining digital histories and digital futures; Liu Xin
  • Chapter 9. Digitalised home as shell / membrane; Nermin Elsherif, Kris Kaleta, and Laura Savolainen
  • Chapter 10. A Story about the futures of digital storytelling; Pierre Chadelle, Tatiana Klepikova, and Kerry Anne Maxwell
  • Chapter 11. Layers of Digital Governance: Governing the Self, Platforms and Engineering; Kirsikka Grön, Hannah Guy, and David Mee

About the authors



Adi Kuntsman is Reader in Digital Politics at the Department of History, Politics and Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Liu Xin is Senior Lecturer at the Center for Gender Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden.