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  • 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 

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