Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures

Adi Kuntsman is Reader in Digital Politics at the Department of History, Politics and Philosophy at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.Liu Xin is Senior Lecturer at the Center for Gender Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden.

• Introduction: Crafting new approaches for historising, politicising and imagining the digital; Adi Kuntsman and Liu Xin Part I. Theories, Concepts, ExplorationsChapter 1. Digital Politics: Defining, exploring and challenging the field; Athina Karatzogianni and Jonathan Ong Chapter 2. Social Media, the Archives of Tomorrow; Nermin Elsherif Chapter 3. Activism and the Anti-Vaccination Movement; Howard Grice Chapter 4. The Scattered Nature or Sovereign Surveillance: On Internet Models in the Context of Tomorrow; Kris Kaleta Chapter 5. A post-developmental critique of digital development and digital capitalism; Emeka Joseph Nwankwo Chapter 6. Dirty, toxic, dumped: Waste as data metaphor; Laura Savolainen Part II. Methodologies, Pedagogies, ImaginariesChapter 7. Historicising Digital Research: From the histories of the digital to histories written through the digital; Nermin Elsherif Chapter 8. Sociotechnical imaginaries as an analytical tool for examining digital histories and digital futures; Liu Xin Chapter 9. Digitalised home as shell / membrane; Nermin Elsherif, Kris Kaleta, and Laura Savolainen Chapter 10. A Story about the futures of digital storytelling; Pierre Chadelle, Tatiana Klepikova, and Kerry Anne Maxwell Chapter 11. Layers of Digital Governance: Governing the Self, Platforms and Engineering; Kirsikka Grön, Hannah Guy, and David Mee

This book offers a much needed holistic and interdisciplinary perspective on digital politics. Adi Kuntsman and Liu Xin stage an engaging conversation between leading and emerging scholars, who examine the history, political economy, and materiality of digital politics. Crucially, they do so from different geo-political, disciplinary, and conceptual angles, which generates vital new insights. And, as icing on the cake, the book offers two experimental research toolkits to explore the histories and social-technical imaginaries of digital politics. In sum, Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures is a creative and thought-provoking contribution.