Politics and Technology in the Post-Truth Era

Anna Visvizi is Associate Professor at Deree College - The American College of Greece and Visiting Researcher at Effat University, Saudi Arabia. Her research focuses on the intersection of politics, economics and ICT. Miltiadis D. Lytras is Research Professor at Deree College - The American College of Greece and Visiting Researcher at Effat University, Saudi Arabia. His work focuses on bringing together advances in ICT and knowledge management to advance socio-economic sustainability and citizens' wellbeing.

Contributed by information management, computer science, and other researchers working in academia, politics, and the think-tank sector around the world, the 19 essays in this volume consider issues related to the impact of information and communication technologies on politics. They examine the impact of the internet in promoting democracy in processes of regime transition in Tunisia, Egypt, Angola, and Zimbabwe; the patterns of political content diffusion in social networks; social media and public engagement in Belarus; the use of advanced computational techniques like text mining and sentiment analysis in social media to understand the relationship between political status and economic development in Taiwan; the impact of social media and disruptive technologies on political campaigns; the compliance of open data in politics in terms of General Data Protection Regulation requirements in the European Union; how cyberintelligence and cyberterrorism impact national security, surveillance, and privacy in the US, as well as citizens' opinions about privacy and security, using the case of Edward Snowden; and information security risks in Russian propaganda. Other chapters discuss information and communication technology to fight corruption and promote participatory democracy in Romania; the role of virtual currencies in modern societies; the link between information and communication technology and digital diplomacy in the Western Balkan countries; the role of information and communication technology in enhancing citizens' involvement in day-to-day policymaking in Brazil and Saudi Arabia; the politics behind large information systems projects; and the relationship between trade in information and communication technology, the international economy, and politics.

• Chapter 1. Introduction- Politics & ICT: mechanisms, dynamics, implications; Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis Lytras Chapter 2. From the Freedom of the Press to the Freedom of the Internet: A New Public Sphere in the Making? Cláudia Toriz Ramos Chapter 3. Diffusion patterns of political content over social networks; Marçal Mora-Cantallops, Zhengqi Yan and Salvador Sánchez-Alonso Chapter 4. Contemporary politics and society: social media and public engagement in Belarus; Victor Shadurski, Galina Malishevskaya Chapter 5. Modeling Public Mood and Emotion: Blog and News Sentiment and Politico-Economic Phenomena; Mu-Yen Chen, Min-Hsuan Fan, Ting-Hsuan Chen, Ren-Pao Heish Chapter 6. Political Campaigns, Social Media & Analytics: the case of the GDPR; Nick Dimisianos Chapter 7. Assessing Compliance of Open Data in Politics with European Data Protection Regulation; Francesco Ciclosi, Paolo Ceravolo, Ernesto Damiani, Donato De Ieso Chapter 8. ICT, politics and cyber intelligence: revisiting the case of Snowden; Emanuel Boussios Chapter 9. Government Surveillance, National Security, and the American Rights: Using Sentiment Analysis to Extract Citizen Opinions; Lily Popova Zhuhadar, Mark Ciampa Chapter 10. Information security risks in the context of Russian propaganda in the CEE; Aleksandra Kuczyńska-Zonik, Agata Tatarenko Chapter 11. The ICT and its uses: fighting corruption and promoting participatory democracy: the case of Romania; Cristina Matiuta Chapter 12. Virtual Currencies in modern societies: challenges and opportunities; Higinio Mora, Francisco A. Pujol López, Julio César Mendoza Tello, Mario R. Morales Chapter 13. Digital Diplomacy in Practice: A Case Study of the Western Balkan Countries; Gorazd Justinek, Sabina Carli, Ingrid Omahna Chapter 14. Social media and the Brazilian politics: a close look at the different perspectives and "The Brazil I Want" initiative; Cleber Pinelli Teixeira, Jônatas Castro dos Santos, Reisla D’Almeida Rodrigues, Sean Wolfgand Matsui Siqueira, Renata Araujo Chapter 15. Evaluation of the national Open Government Data (OGD) portal of Saudi Arabia; Saxena Stuti  Chapter 16. E-Government Strategy and Its Impact on Economic and Social Development in Saudi Arabia; Husseain Alhashimi Chapter 17. Romancing Top Management: The Politics of Top Management Support in Large Information System Projects; Gloria H.W. Liu, Cecil E.H Chua Chapter 18. International trade on the ICT market; Katarzyna Żukrowska Chapter 19. Conclusion- ICT and politics: looking ahead; Anna Visvizi,Miltiadis Lytras