Table of Contents
Part I: Politics and Government
1. Fake News and Democratic Culture
(Brian McNair)
2. Mapping pressures on the ‘sensible centre’/consensual model of liberal democracy (Eric Louw)
3. Surround-sound elections: campaigning in a fast-evolving digital media environment
(Edwina Throsby)
4. From ‘Crush the Saboteurs’ to ‘Coalition of Crackpots’: The role of the partisan ‘Tory’ press and the power of alternative media during Brexit and #GE17
(Aljosha Karim Schapals)
5. Shifting Conceptions of Voice in Citizen-Government Interactions Using Digital Media in Indonesian Local Democracy
(Terry Flew & Rido Panjaitan)
Part II: News and Journalism
6. Journalism as an advocate for social change and public engagement: Reporting environmental crisis in the digital era
(Susan Forde)
7. Mining the depleted ‘rivers of gold’: Public notices and the sustainability of Australian local news in a digitized democracy
(Kristy Hess)
8. Journalism and democracy in the network society
(Amanda Gearing)
9. "Cloudy with a chance of sh!tstorm": Examining the role of social news outlets in the Hack Live: Is Male Privilege Bullsh!t? social media ritual
(Edward Hurcombe)
Part III: Digital Societies
10. Digital Public Spheres in Australia
(Axel Bruns)
11. Beyond Deficit Discourse: Reframing Debate in Indigenous Education
(Kerry McCallum, Lisa Waller & Tanja Dreher)
12. The role of social media during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution: A real catalyst, or merely a facilitating factor?
(Aljosha Karim Schapals)
13. IndigenousX: unencumbered, connected
(Sandra Phillips, Sandy O’Sullivan, Luke Pearson)
Part IV: New Visions
14. Digital bullets wound traditions of politics and the media
(David Fagan)
15. The Era of Mega-Leaks
(Rodney Tiffen)
16. The Unfinished Robots Revolution: Ten tips for humans
(John Keane)