Please join us to discuss theories, methodologies and case studies of internet governance. Digital Politics Research Group is delighted to host two contributors to the recently published book, Power and Authority in Internet Governance, Niels ten Oever and Ting Luo. Niels ten ...

The Digital Border: Migration, Technology, Power, NYU Press, is coming out early next year. It is a very timely discussion of how big data, artificial intelligence, algorithms, social media platforms, and journalism are used to "manage" both the people moving through borders, ...

Digital Hate: The Global Conjuncture of Extreme Speech, Indiana Univeristy Press. This is a much needed edited collecton on hate speech, especially interesting because of its global range of case studies. Online hate speech is not a new phenomenon: one might argue that it exis...

Two more interesting and timely books at the Polity Press exhibit deserve quick mentioning. Data Selves: More-than-Human Perspectives focuses on how people make sense of the plentiful of "their" digital data; Pandemic Surveillance is a timely exploration of how the global pan...

Polity Press' was the last stall I visited during AoiR - the conference is now over, and I am slowing down to two last posts about book exhibits. This one is dedicated to two books which touch on different, but, I believe, closely related topics: death and mourning, and rememb...

The topic of AI (artificial intelligence) as a political, social, cultural and environmental concern - rather than a matter of programming and design - is on the rise. As the use of AI grows, so do the concerns regarding its ethical regulations, and social impacts. The researc...

I really like this series of short books, asking critical questions about Digital Futures, one question per book: Is AI good for the planet? How green is your smartphone? Should Robots replace teachers? Are filer bubbles real? Will the Internet fragment? Is technology good...

Polite Press has a very interesting series of short books, dedicated to a single platform each: Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube. Each book offers a short an engaging introduction into various issues associated with economic, social and technical aspects of th...

The AoiR conference is almost finished. Here is one last published with an eye-watering sight of great books to look into. More reports on Policy Book stand on Digital Media Studies to follow shortly.

Anarchist Cybernetics: Control and Communication in Radical Politics Moving from digital capitalism and algorithmic control to radical resistance, this book looks at alternative social media platforms and networks and ways in which they facilitate radical organising, protest, ...