Political participatory platforms may look similar but, in practice, they redistribute power in very different ways. This article introduces a three-dimensional cube to compare their political governance, software affordances, and infrastructural dependencies, using cases from Italy, Spain, Argentina and Taiwan to show how specific sociotechnical configurations shape the effects of online political participation.
News and Research articles on Interdisciplinarity
In this article, we performed a scoping review and argue that mixed or multi-method designs can better support collaboration when thoughtfully applied. However, indiscriminately combining methods without clear justification—the so-called ‘kitchen sink’ approach—risks overcomplicating research agendas and diluting their insights.
Building flexible tools to approach law for interdisciplinary requirements extraction in software engineering.
Colliding ideas from art and digital technology law to bridge disciplinary silos and generate learning impact.
This article demonstrates the need for much more than a “computing plus” approach to truly realise the potential of interdisciplinary cybersecurity and privacy research.
By opening the craft of interdisciplinary method to more explicit scrutiny, this special issue provides a novel space to examine how knowledge in the domains of cybersecurity, privacy, and digital rights governance is made, contested, and reshaped.
Marianne Franklin is Professor of Global Media & Politics, convenor of the MA in Global Media and Transnational Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. We interviewed her in advance of the five year anniversary celebration of our journal.