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Dr Marco Guglielmo Royal Holloway University of London
Dr Pauline Sophie Heinrichs, KCL
Professor Ben O’Loughlin, Royal Holloway, University of London
Introduction
Ben O'Loughlin, Pauline Heinrichs, and Marco Guglielmo
Part I: Chaining agency
1 Time to act? Political agency within, and as, platformised struggles over time
Ilona Steiler and Lorena Ramirez Hincapie
2 The hidden chains of the digital transformation: labour, nature, and the myth of dematerialisation
Giorgio Pirina
3 The illusion of emancipation and the limits of strategic narratives: climate change, agency and the promise of technological salvation
Pauline Sophie Heinrichs
4 Political parties: empowering the people or amassing power in the digital age?
Giulia Sandri, Adrián Megías Collado and F. Ramón Villaplana Jiménez
5 Archetypal expression and phantasmal subjectivities in algorithmic mediation
Mikael Andéhn
6 Anti-liberal norm contestation and social media: the far-right attacks to democracy and LGBTQ+ rights
Jonathan Pettifer
7 Post-Brexit Conservative party and the use of traditional platforms to chaperone contemporary British racism
Rachel Hitch
Part II: Unchaining agency
8 Commonify digital platforms! Multiplying the movements towards emancipation
Peter Bloom, Marco Guglielmo and Phoebe Moore
9 Progressive campaign platforms: activating distributed collective action
Bradley Ward and Mélany Cruz
10 Platforms, policy and power in the imagined futures of digital public spaces
Naomi Jacobs and Louise Mullagh
11 The digitisation of public inquiries: digital containment and counterpublics of resistance
Nathan Critch and D’arcy Ritchie
12 Social value first: digital platforms for a new economy of the commons
Lavinia Pastore, Gabriele Masci and Luigi Corvo
13 How people resist filter bubbles on social media: a case study of British teenagers
Scott Downham
14 Online feminist reclamations of space: women’s work to find room in digital politics
Rachel Brock
Part III: Debating digital futures
15 Anti-AI activism: pathways and pitfalls
Masoumeh Iran Mansouri and David Bailey
16 The European Union’s agency in platform societies
Sophie Vériter and Ben O’Loughlin
17 Futures of the few
Emiliano Treré
18 Remiendos & Desguace: feminist interventions as acts of epistemic liberation
Helen Thornham and Edgar Gómez Cruz
Conclusions
Pauline Sophie Heinrichs, Ben O’Loughlin and Marco Guglielmo