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<div>Paolo Gerbaudo</div>
<div><b>The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online
Democracy</b></div>
<div>Pluto, 2018<x-tab> </x-tab></div>
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<div>From the Pirate Parties in Northern Europe to Podemos in Spain
and the 5-Star Movement in Italy, from the movements behind Bernie
Sanders in the US and Jeremy Corbyn in UK, to Jean-Luc Melenchon's
presidential bid in France, the last decade has witnessed the rise of
a new blueprint for political organisation: the 'digital party'. These
new political formations tap into the potential of social media, and
use online participatory platforms to include the rank-and-file. Paolo
Gerbaudo looks at the restructuring of political parties in the time
of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and campaigning based on Big Data.
Drawing on interviews with key political leaders and digital
organisers, he argues that the digital party is very different from
the class-based 'mass party' of the industrial era. With new
structures come worrying changes in political forms, such as the
growth of power cliques and the need for centralised, charismatic
leaders, the erosion of intermediary party layers and the loss of
accountability. However, there is also a growth of strong unity at the
centre and extreme flexibility at the margins, creating a promising
template which could counter the social polarisation created by the
Great Recession and the failures of liberal democracy.</div>
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<div>https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745335797/the-digital-party/</div>
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<div
>https://www.academia.edu/37949836/The_Digital_Party_Political_Organi<span
></span>sation_and_Online_Democracy_Introduction</div>
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>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italys-web-politicia<span
></span>ns-post-their-dystopic-vision-8563112.html</div>
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<div>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianroberto_Casaleggio</div>
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