Online Communities and Crowds in the Rise of the Five Star Movement
This book reflects on the political capacity of citizen users to impact politics, explaining the danger in assuming that mass online participation has unconditionally democratising effects. Focusing on the case of Italy's Five Star Movement, the book argu
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Online Communities and Crowds in the Rise of the Five Star Movement
Francesco Bailo
Online Communities and Crowds in the Rise of the Five Star Movement
Francesco Bailo School of Communication University of Technology Sydney Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Acknowledgements
This book is the result of a research project I started in 2013 at the University of Sydney as a PhD student. As I wrote my first proposal describing this project in 2012, the Five Star Movement had still to run (and successively win) the 2013 Italian general election—and in fact, at the time not many would have foreseen its spectacular success. The research project has evolved along with the Five Star Movement, which at the time of writing is currently in government. Most of the Internet data presented in this book was collected between 2013 and 2015, but electoral and demographics data were collected up to 2019. First and foremost, I want to thank my supervisor Ariadne Vromen. I could use many words to describe how incredibly important her work has been for this project and for me; what I am most grateful for is that she has never stopped showing me how important it is to love your job, in order to do it best. I have also greatly benefited from discussing this project with friends and colleagues from the University of Sydney, the University of Canberra and the W
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