Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of figures
• 1 The internet in theory
• 1.1 Theories of media, new and old
• 1.2 Summary of the argument
• 1.3 The autonomy of the media (sub)system
• 1.4 The role of the media in politics, culture and the economy: separate and different
• 1.5 A limited attention space
• 1.6 Who’s afraid of technological determinism?
• 1.7 Chapter overview
• 2 Media systems, digital media and politics
• 2.1 Theories of digital media and politics
• 2.2 Media systems in Sweden and America
• 2.3 Digital media and politics in Sweden and America
• 2.4 Media systems in China and India
• 2.5 Digital media and politics in China and India
• 3 Digital media and the rise of right-wing populism
• 3.1 Trump’s ascent via Twitter
• 3.2 The Sweden Democrats’ alternative media
• 3.3 Modi’s religious nationalism on Twitter
• 3.4 Containing online nationalists in China
• 3.5 Prospects for mediated politics
• 4 The internet in everyday life I: sociability
• 4.1 Tethered togetherness
• 4.2 The spread of social media
• 4.3 Sociability and social divides
• 4.4 Visual co-presence
• 4.5 Alone or together?
• 4.6 Globalizing sociability
• 5 The internet in everyday life II: seeking information
• 5.1 A new information infrastructure
• 5.2 Seeking information
• 5.3 Search engine uses
• 5.4 Search engines as gatekeepers
• 5.5 Does Google shape what we know?
• 5.6 The Web of information
• 5.7 Is the Web global?
• 5.8 Wikipedia
• 5.9 Information seeking and gatekeeping
• 6 Big data: shaping knowledge, shaping everyday life
• 6.1 Defining big data
• 6.2 Advancing academic knowledge about digital media
• 6.3 The uses and limits of big data in the social sciences
• 6.4 Facebook’s ‘Brave New Worlds’
• 6.5 Targeting publics, and the uses and limits of big data in everyday life
• 6.6 Big data and policy in different media systems
• 7 Futures
• 7.1 Media, globalization, technology
• 7.2 The uses and limits of theory
• 7.3 Technological determinism revisited
• 7.4 Mediated politics
• 7.5 Information needs and an open culture of information
• 7.6 Big data and targeting
• 7.7 Digital versus traditional media
• 7.8 Separate changes and limited impact
• 7.9 What is to be done?
• References
• Index