Studies of social media's impact on policing have emerged in several disciplines, including
criminology, sociology, and communications. Despite their insight, there is no unified body of …

Media are central to the dynamics of protest and social movements. Contemporary social
movements face a shifting environment composed of new media technologies and platforms …

Social media, and especially popular youth-focused platforms like TikTok, can offer a
valuable window into youth experiences, including their perceptions of online learning …

A new era of Information Warfare has arrived. Various actors, including state-sponsored
ones, are weaponizing information on Online Social Networks to run false-information …

This book explores the weird and mean and in-between that characterize everyday
expression online, from absurdist photoshops to antagonistic Twitter hashtags to deceptive …

This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of
contemporary digital activism. The author deconstructs the reductionism of the literature on …

The exercise of power has been an implicit theme in research on the use of social media for
political protest, but few studies have attempted to measure social media power and its …

Metadata such as the hashtag is an important dimension of social media communication.
Despite its important role in practices such as curating, tagging, and searching content, there …

On the afternoon of 9 August 2014, 18-year-old Michael 'Mike'Brown was shot and killed by
Officer Darren Wilson in the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri. Brown's body lay in …

How do journalists know what they know? Who gets to decide what good journalism is and
when it's done right? What sort of expertise do journalists have, and what role should and do …