Introduction: conceptualizing digital politics / Stephen Coleman and Deen Freelon -- The internet as a civic space / Peter Dahlgren -- The social foundations of future digital politics / Nick Couldry -- The Fifth Estate: a rising force of pluralistic accountability / William H. Dutton and Elizabeth Dubois -- Silicon Valley ideology and class inequality: a virtual poll tax on digital politics / Jen Schradie -- Online voting advice applications: foci, findings and future of an emerging research field / Fadi Hirzalla and Liesbet van Zoonen -- Internet voting: the state of the debate / Thad Hall -- Digital campaigning / Daniel Kreiss -- E-petitions / Scott Wright -- Argumentation tools for digital politics: addressing the challenge of deliberation in democracies / Neil Benn -- The logic of connective action: digital media and the personalization of contentious politics / W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg -- Youth civic engagement / Chris Wells, Emily Vraga, Kjerstin Thorson, Stephanie Edgerly and Leticia Bode -- Internet use and political engagement in youth / Yunhwan Kim and Erik Amnêa -- Everyday political talk in the Internet-based public sphere / Todd Graham -- Creating spaces for online deliberation / Christopher Birchall and Stephen Coleman -- Computational approaches to online political expression: rediscovering a 'science of the social' / Dhavan V. Shah, Kathleen Bartzen Culver, Alexander Hanna, Timothy Macafee and JungHwan Yang -- Two-screen politics: evidence, theory and challenges / Nick Anstead and Ben O'Loughlin -- From news blogs to news on Twitter: gatewatching and collaborative news curation / Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield -- Research on the political implications of political entertainment / Michael A. Xenos -- Journalism, gatekeeping and interactivity / Neil Thurman -- Internet governance, rights and democratic legitimacy / Giles Moss -- Social media surveillance / Christian Fuchs -- Visibility and visualities: 'ways of seeing' politics in the digital media environment / Katy Parry -- Automated content analysis of online political communication / Ross Petchler and Sandra Gonzâlez-Bailâon -- On the cutting edge of Big Data: digital politics research in the social comuting literature / Deen Freelon.