Digital Politics Group

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The role of digital technologies such as social media platforms, algorithms, and the AI in national and international politics cannot be overestimated and continues to grow and evolve.

In the last decade alone, global politics were completely transformed by the rise of social media data mining and algorithmic information control, fake news and misinformation, cyberwarfare, internet shutdowns, biometric surveillance, and governmental decision-making led by the AI. At the same time, there is a surge in politicised use of everyday digital communication tools such as social media platforms, apps and smartphones, by ordinary people in citizen engagement, mass protest, and everyday resistance.

Digital Politics group is a small but rapidly growing cohort of staff and PhD students, working together on range of topics that address these intersections, such as: social media militarism; on-line protest and campaigns; political propaganda and misinformation on-line; digital governance and the politics of digitisation; social media and public opinion; digital diplomacy; digital warfare; identities and communities on the internet; digital technologies and the environment; digital colonialism and data imperialism. Members' research focuses on global digital politics, as well as on specific national and regional contexts such as Albania, China, Nigeria, Palestine/Israel, Poland, Russia, the US, and the UK. The group is also part of the Digital Society research cluster at the Research Centre for Applied Social Sciences (RCASS), collaborating with social researchers of digital technologies from across the Faculty.

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Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester