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27 October 2026
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Comparative politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Media & Internet, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Impact of science and technology on society, Digital and information technologies: social and ethical aspects
Dr Marco Guglielmo Royal Holloway University of London
Dr Pauline Sophie Heinrichs, KCL,
Professor Ben O’Loughlin, Royal Holloway, University of London
Introduction - Professor Ben O’Loughlin,Dr Pauline Sophie Heinrichs, Dr Kat Gupta and Dr Marco Guglielmo
Part I: Chaining Political Agency
1. Algorithmic Agency: The Accelerated Techno-Mediation of Cultural Conflicts - Dr Mikael Andéhn
2. A matter of time: Political Agency and Temporal Precarity in Platform Societies - Dr Ilona Steiler and Dr Lorena Ramirez Hincapie
3. Digital Ideology and Material Exploitation of Labour and the Environment - Dr Giorgio Pirina
4. The Illusion of Emancipation and the Limits of Strategic Narratives: Climate Change, Agency and the Promise of Technological Salvation - Dr Pauline Sophie Heinrichs
5. Political Parties: Empowering the People or Amassing Power in the Digital Age? - Dr Ramón Villaplana Jiménez, Prof Giulia Sandri and Dr Adrián Megías Collado
6. Exploitable Agency: Feedback Mechanisms as a Management Technique in Platform Work - Hugh Hammond
7. Digital Media and the Struggles over Norm Contestation to Silence LGBTQ+ Communities - Jonathan Pettifer
Part 2: Unchaining Political Agency
8. Progressive Politics as a Digital Common: The Organisation of Disruptive Agency - Dr Bradley Ward and Dr Melany Cruz
9. Platforms, policy and power in the imagined futures of digital public spaces - Dr Naomi Jacobs and Dr Louise Mullagh
10. Public Inquiries and Digital Platforms: Spaces of Resistance or Continued Containment - Nathan Critch and D’arcy Ritchie
11. The Digital Transformation of Political Parties and Political Agency: bottom up activism vs. hyperleaderships - Dr Jasmin Fitzpatrick and Professor Oscar Barbera
12. Embubbled on Platforms? How young people become politicised on social media - Scott Downham
13. Social Value First: Digital Platforms for a New Economy of the Commons - Gabiele Masci, Dr Lavinia Pastore and Professor Luigi Corvo
14. Digital Platforms as Third Spaces of Gender Resistance - Antonia Alecu
15. Visibility as Vulnerability? Conceiving Solutions to Feminist Harms in the Online Global Political Sphere - Rachel Brock
Part 3: The Routes towards Emancipation within and of Platform Societies
16. El Remiendo, Recuperation, Reparation - Dr Helen Thornham and Dr Edgar Gómez-Cruz
17. On Platform Hegemony and Resistance: The Metapolitics of Digital Platforms - Dr Alex Williams
18. Commonify platforms: The Multiplicity of Digital Subjects and Practices of Resistance towards Emancipation - Professor Phoebe Moore, Dr Marco Guglielmo, Professor Peter Bloom
Conclusions - Dr Kat Gupta, Professor Ben O’Loughlin, Dr Pauline Sophie Heinrichs and Dr Marco Guglielmo