Titlebook: Online Communities and Crowds in the Rise of the Five Star Movement; Francesco Bailo Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Autho

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Introduction,by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). These two are the drivers for the rise of the Five Star Movement (M5S)—the case study of the book: the diffusion of Internet technologies but also of a sentiment of political distrust towards the political establishment. In Italy, the citizen use

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The Emergence of the Citizen User,private institutions observed in Western democracies since the turn of the millennium. I explain the political, cultural and economic reasons of this decline: although citizens’ trust has cyclically fluctuated, in the 2000s a sense of civic disempowerment was for the first time coupled with informat

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Mobilisation and Elections, to mass mobilisation and his election to Parliament. In this chapter I also present data on the attention of legacy media to parties in 1994 and 2013. By comparing air-time dedicated to different parties during the 2013 campaign, I also note significantly less attention dedicated to the Movement by

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Online Communities and Online Crowds,ster and sustain the development of its political community. I introduce two key concepts to help interpret what happened within the online community of the M5S: everyday political talk and network individualism. Finally, I provide some descriptive statistics of different traits of the online commun

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Online Discussion Within the M5S Community,nment, the common currency and the introduction of a Guaranteed Minimum Income (GMI). Conducting a network analysis of the interactions among users, I estimate and discuss the structural features of the discussion networks which I coded based on the individual characteristics of users and the conten

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,The M5S Community and Citizen’s Income,n of concepts by users and by the leadership of the Five Star Movement and estimate the policy impact of the online conversation. I describe a natural language processing method to compare a large corpus of texts to a selection of key concepts and to understand their reciprocal relations by placing

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By the Crowd, for the People?,y redefining its relationship with political participation. I discuss the emerging problem of crowd-mediated politics in which political leadership uses online crowds instrumentally for their own democratic legitimisation.

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Online Communities and Crowds in the Rise of the Five Star Movement