Helen Margetts (Book order)

Helen Margetts Book order

Helen Margetts is a political scientist specializing in the governance and politics of the digital era. Her work investigates how the internet, social media, and big data shape political behavior and institutions. She analyzes how to maximize the policy impact of research, focusing on understanding the challenges of digital-age governance. Her scholarship delves into new forms of collective action and the transformations of modernization.

Political Turbulence

304 pages
11 hours of reading

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As people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, they are being invited to support myriad political causes by sharing, liking, endorsing, or downloading. Chain reactions caused by these tiny acts of participation form a growing part of collective action today, from neighbourhood campaigns to global political movements. 'Political Turbulence' reveals that, in fact, most attempts at collective action online don't succeed, but some give rise to huge mobilisations - even revolutions