Sumários

Invited professor: platform participation and platform democracy

13 Novembro 2025, 18:00 • Guya Accornero

Invited professor: platform participation and platform democracy 

 


Oral presentations + Methods to study social movements in the digital era

6 Novembro 2025, 18:00 • Guya Accornero

Oral presentations

Methods to study social movements in the digital era 

  1. Digital sources 

  1. Digital situated ethnography 

  1. Frame analysis in the digital public sphere 

  1. Network analysis in the digital sphere 

  1. Digital surveys and questionnaires 

Oral presentations + class 6

30 Outubro 2025, 18:00 • Guya Accornero

Class 6 – 30st of October 

Citizens in a digital environment 

  1. Digital citizenship  

  1. Digital (contentious) governance 

  1. Digital public sphere  

  1. Policing protest and public order in the digital era 

  1. Social rights, labour mobilization and the platformization of economy 

Suggested literature 

See suggested literature for the previous two classes, and more these works: 

Choi, M. 2016.’ A Concept Analysis of Digital Citizenship for Democratic Citizenship Education in the Internet Age’, Theory & Research in Social Education 44(4): 565-607. .  

Class 5

23 Outubro 2025, 18:00 • Guya Accornero

ICT, platforms and democracy 

  1. Deliberative and participatory digital democratic experiences 

  1. Networked parties and movements 

  1. Grassroots democratic innovation and digital democratic design

Oral presentations

Class 4

16 Outubro 2025, 18:00 • Guya Accornero

- Group oral presentation

- Digital populism and techno-libertarianism  

  1. Techno-populism and techno-libertarianism 

  1. The myth of direct democracy and its digital declination: platform movements and parties