Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right by Steven Liv... - 9780197794937

Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-RightPlatforms, Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy\nAuthor(s): Steven Livingston, Michael Miller\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197794937, 978-0197794937\nSynopsis\nThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND [url] International license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free ---- ---- from OUP and selected open access locations.\n\nIn Connective Action and the Rise of the Far-Right: Platforms, Politics, and the Crisis of Democracy, the contributors explain democratic backsliding in the 21st century through what it terms a cross-disciplinary engagement between democracy scholars and data scientists. The former describe the necessary social and economic conditions for a healthy democracy, while the latter tell us something about the role of digital platforms in the realization (or not) of these same .