New Media and Politics

Barrie Axford is Professor Emeritus in politics in the School of Social Sciences at Oxford Brookes University, where he was founding Director of the Centre for Global Politics Economy and Society (GPES). He is interested in global theory, processes of globalization, and the framing of politics by digital media. His books include The Global System (1996); Theories of Globalization (2013); The World-Making Power of New Media: Mere Connection? (2018) and 3 co-authored editions of Politics: An Introduction. He has recently co-edited Rethinking Ideology in the Age of Global Discontent, with Gulmez.B and Gulmez, D (2018) and Political Sociologies of the Cultural Encounter, with Brisbourne, A, Halperin, S and Lueders, C (2020). Currently, he is guest editor for a Special Forum of the journal Globalizations on Is an Integrated Theory of Globalization Possible, and is it Desirable? and guest co-editor (with Manfred Steger) of the forthcoming 2021 volume of the journal Protosociology, on Populism and Globalization. His work has been translated into several languages. He is starting work on a book about the indifferent globality of viruses, BIg Data and A.I.

The Transformation of Politics or Anti-Politics? - Barrie Axford The Transformation of Political Communication? - Sandra Moog and Jeff Sluyter-Beltrao The Transformation of Democracy? - Peter Dahlgren The Transformation of the Public Sphere? - Sinikka Sassi The Transformation of Citizenship? - Stephen Coleman The Transformation of the Political Audience - Richard Huggins The Transformation of Governance? - Ken Newton The Transformation of Political Leadership? - Jennifer Stromer-Galley and Kathleen Hall Jamieson The Transformation of Political Parties? - Dominic Wring and Ivan Horrocks The Transformation of Political Modernity? - John Street

`The book makes a successful attempt to map the potentially transformative effects of new media on various aspects of political insitiutions and culture, both at a theorectical and empirical level. Barrie Axford's discussion of the changing nature of political practice and technologies of political communication in relation to wider discourse of "crisis" is insightful and well argued....This is a genuinely thought provoking and generally very well written book. The book also works well by providing a potential basis for theoretically informed future research in the field of political communication' - Political Theory