[Commlist] New book: The Networked Citizen: Power, Politics, and Resistance in the Internet Age

A new book from Palgrave

The Networked Citizen: Power, Politics, and Resistance in the Internet Age

This book presents an interdisciplinary approach focusing on the 
relationship between politics and the Internet.

It provides a blueprint to understanding the transforming effect that 
the communication revolution has had on the way in which political power 
is exercised.

It includes in-depth analyses of media tactics of anti-establishment 
parties.

the book is available via Springer:

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-13-3293-7

About the book:

The Networked Citizen investigates the changing meanings of power and 
politics in the Internet age and questions whether the political 
category of the citizen still has a meaningful role to play in the 
highly-mediated dynamics of an increasingly networked world.

To answer such questions, the book analyses and compares the impact of 
the Internet on the relationship between state, citizens, and politics 
in three countries: the USA, Italy, and China.

The book’s journey starts in the mid-90s and ends in 2016. It pays 
particular attention to Obama 2008 and Trump 2016 presidential 
campaigns, the ascendance to power in Italy of the anti-establishment 
Five Star Movement, and to the enduring Chinese government’s struggle to 
control the Internet public opinion.

The book also challenges the traditional understanding of power through 
which the strong typically prevails over the weak. This leads to a 
clearer understanding of the wider role citizens can play (and must 
play) in a networked political sphere, while it also warns the reader on 
the many risks citizens face in a post-truth world.


Table of Contents
Contents, List of Figures and Acknowledgements (Pages i-xiii)

Part I: A New Kind of Citizen (brief intro: 1-7)
1 - In Search of the Good Citizen (Pages 9-18)
2 - A Different Kind of Society (Pages 19-29)
3 - The Networked Citizen (Pages 31-39)

Part II USA: From Hope to Fake News (brief intro: 41-42)
4 - The MoveOn 
Model (Pages 43-65)
5 - A Model Imitated: From Dean to Obama (Pages 
67-89)
6 - The First Twitter President (Pages 91-138)

Part III Italy: Rise and Fall of the Networked Citizen (brief 
intro:Pages 139-143)
7 - The Berlusconi Era (Pages 145-165)
8 - The Five Star Movement (Pages 167-216)

Part IV China: The CCP vs. Wǎngmín (brief intro: Pages 217-219)
9 - Control of Media (Pages 221-236)
10 - The Party’s Greatest Ally (Pages 237-262)

Part V The Power and Weakness of Networked Citizens
11 - Power as Shared Weakness (Pages 265-280)
12 - What Kind of Citizens Do We Want to Be? (Pages 281-302)

Index (Pages 303-310)

About the Author: Giovanni Navarria is an associate of the Centre for 
Political Thought at the University of Exeter. Previously, he has worked 
as Lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, at the 
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, and at the University 
of Westminster. His academic background and research approach is 
interdisciplinary; it lies at the intersection between politics, power 
and the media (particularly the Internet). In his research, he uses 
philosophy, political theory and media theory to challenge prevailing 
notions of citizenship, civic engagement and political power. He has a 
PhD from the University of Westminster and a Degree in Philosophy from 
the University of Catania. At the University of Sydney, he has taught 
Postgraduate Units of Studies in the field of Public Opinion, New Media 
and Public Relations, Politics and International Relations. As Associate 
of the Sydney Democracy Network, he launched and co-edited an article 
series called Democracy Futures and wrote a regular column titled 
Networked Politics for The Conversation Australia.





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