Book Description
Provides academics, journalists, and general readers with bird's-eye view of data-driven practices and their impact in politics and media.
Author : Andreas Jungherr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1108419402
Provides academics, journalists, and general readers with bird's-eye view of data-driven practices and their impact in politics and media.
Author : Normann Witzleb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 11,30 MB
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1000747395
In this multidisciplinary book, experts from around the globe examine how data-driven political campaigning works, what challenges it poses for personal privacy and democracy, and how emerging practices should be regulated. The rise of big data analytics in the political process has triggered official investigations in many countries around the world, and become the subject of broad and intense debate. Political parties increasingly rely on data analytics to profile the electorate and to target specific voter groups with individualised messages based on their demographic attributes. Political micro-targeting has become a major factor in modern campaigning, because of its potential to influence opinions, to mobilise supporters and to get out votes. The book explores the legal, philosophical and political dimensions of big data analytics in the electoral process. It demonstrates that the unregulated use of big personal data for political purposes not only infringes voters’ privacy rights, but also has the potential to jeopardise the future of the democratic process, and proposes reforms to address the key regulatory and ethical questions arising from the mining, use and storage of massive amounts of voter data. Providing an interdisciplinary assessment of the use and regulation of big data in the political process, this book will appeal to scholars from law, political science, political philosophy and media studies, policy makers and anyone who cares about democracy in the age of data-driven political campaigning.
Author : Uta Kohl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 33,69 MB
Release : 2021-07-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1108835694
This book critiques the use of algorithms to pre-empt personal choices in its profound effect on markets, democracy and the rule of law.
Author : Katharine Dommett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Campaign management
ISBN : 0197570232
Challenging the often-hyperbolic claims that have been made around the use of data in election campaigns for voter manipulation and suppression, this book provides unrivalled evidence of how parties actually behave. It shows that data-driven campaigning practice is not inherently problematic or new, but neither is it uniform, rather systemic, regulatory and party level factors affecting the nature of campaigning. Providing detailed empirical examples from Australia, Canada, Germany, the UK and US, this book shows how parties campaign and explains why parties differ, thereby resetting prevailing understanding of the role of data in campaigns.
Author : Glenn Kefford
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 303068234X
Big data and microtargeting steal the headlines about campaigning. But how important are they really to the way that political parties campaign? This book provides a fine-grained account of the campaign practices of three Australian political parties. It explores how prevalent data-driven campaigning is, introduces an original theoretical framework to understand these practices, and demonstrates that there is a disconnect between what Australian voters think about these issues and the way that parties campaign in the 21st century. Drawing on 161 interviews, participant observation and original survey data, it shows that the reality of contemporary campaigning is often different to what we are led to believe.
Author : Macnish Kevin Macnish
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 21,67 MB
Release : 2020-06-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 147446355X
What's wrong with targeted advertising in political campaigns? Should we be worried about echo chambers? How does data collection impact on trust in society? As decision-making becomes increasingly automated, how can decision-makers be held to account? This collection consider potential solutions to these challenges. It brings together original research on the philosophy of big data and democracy from leading international authors, with recent examples - including the 2016 Brexit Referendum, the Leveson Inquiry and the Edward Snowden leaks. And it asks whether an ethical compass is available or even feasible in an ever more digitised and monitored world.
Author : Raymond J. La Raja
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0472052993
An illuminating perspective on the polarizing effects of campaign finance reform
Author : Dennis W. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 11,29 MB
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1317307453
In view of the 2016 US election season, the second edition of this book analyzes the way political campaigns have been traditionally run and the extraordinary changes that have occurred since 2012. Dennis W. Johnson looks at the most sophisticated techniques of modern campaigning—micro-targeting, online fundraising, digital communication, the new media—and examines what has changed, how those changes have dramatically transformed campaigning, and what has remained fundamentally the same despite new technologies and communications. Campaigns are becoming more open and free-wheeling, with greater involvement of activists (especially through social media) and average voters alike. At the same time, they have become more professionalized, and the author has experience managing and marketing the process. Campaigning in the Twenty-First Century illustrates the daunting challenges for candidates and professional consultants as they try to get their messages out to voters. Ironically, the more open and robust campaigns become, the greater is the need for seasoned, flexible, and imaginative professional consultants. New to the Second Edition Includes coverage of the 2012 and 2014 elections, looking ahead to 2016. Updates coverage of campaign finance since the landmark Citizens United Supreme Court decision. Adds to the discussion of demographic and technological changes in elections since 2012.
Author : Peter L. Francia
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 2003-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 023151302X
Individual donors play a critical role in financing congressional elections, accounting for more than half of all money raised in House campaigns. But significant donors (defined here as those contributing more than $200) are the least understood participants in the system. Defenders assert that contributing money to campaigns is part of a broader pattern of civic involvement and is free speech that gives a voice to various interests. Detractors argue that these contributions are undemocratic, enabling wealthy citizens to overwhelm the voices of the many and to promote narrow business and policy interests. These divergent assessments were raised in connection with the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act of 2002 and continue to characterize the debate over campaign finance reform. So who really contributes and why? How much and to how many candidates? What are the strategies used by political campaigns to elicit contributions and how do the views of significant donors impact the campaign-finance system? What do donors think about campaign-finance reform? This book investigates these vital questions, describing the influence of congressional financiers in American politics.
Author : Russell J. Dalton
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199599351
Political Parties and Democratic Linkage examines how political parties ensure the functioning of the democratic process in contemporary societies. Based on unprecedented cross-national data, the authors find that the process of party government is still alive and well in most contemporary democracies.