• When the populists inspire the ad men

• CfP: Deception on social media

• Post-democracy and the transformation of lobbying

• Social media as a machinery of dispute amplification

• Can we have platform capitalism without computational politics? 

• Minitrack: Collective Intelligence and Crowds

• CfP HICSS-52 (2019) minitrack: Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Technologies

• The Alt-Right and the Reactionary Politics of Transgression

• Post-Truth as Personal Incapacity

• The global fourth estate

• The coming of neoliberal populism: comparing Trump and Macron

• The Simpsons on Social Justice Warriors

• Daniel Bell, Transgression and the Alt-Right

• Online armies at your command

• The populist right are demotic, rather than democratic

• How widespread is shadow mobilisation?

• The notion of a ‘playbook’

• A playbook for merchandising doubt

• What does public sociology have to say about sociologists who are ‘merchants of doubt’?

• The data warriors and the electoral wars they wage

• “Help! Help! Here comes everybody!”: Social Media and Corbynism

• How do we explain the election of Donald Trump?

• The Ontology of Fake News

• From the crowd-as-threat to crowd-as-resource 

• Social media and populism 

• Mobilising a sharing economy revolution

• Building the cult of airbnb

• Uber’s first experiment in mobilising their users

• Micro-tasking political activism

• South Park’s theory of trolling: Trevor’s Axiom

• Was Sloterdijk an early originator of contemporary right populism?

• The Political Economy of the American South

• Algorithmic Guerrilla Warfare

• The “least resistant personality profile”

• Are journalists personally afraid of a Trump presidency?

• Trump is masculinising poverty

• The Return of the Riot

• The radicalisation of reactionaries

• Surveillance and the Public Sphere: confronting a democratic dilemma

• The Power of Digital Media to Shape False Narratives

• ‘The people who own the country should rule it’

• Declining political literacy as a vector of post-democratisation

• Imagining the paramilitarization of Trumpism

• New Racisms II: Neoliberalism and its Others

• the failed promise of ‘cyber politics’, the empowerment of defensive elites and the death of liberal democracy

• the new frontier of computational politics

• the grateful serfs of the sharing economy

• glenn beck as the apotheosis of correlational thinking 

• digital capitalism and the bestiary of the imagination 

• the affective basis of techno-fascism?

• from corporation to social movement: the future of lobbying in the sharing economy 

• the astroturfing industry