Helen Margetts spoke with Deutsche Welle last week about the book and a range of topics from the role of social media in mobilizations to the (lack of) sustainability of social media campaigns. An article reporting their conversation is available at http://dw.com/p/1HpSV. Political Turbulence: we're 'dripping with data' and it may make democracy better Do social media shape collective action? Professor Helen Margetts, co-author of a new book called "Political Turbulence" says they do. By allowing us to make "micro-donations" it's easy to join a cause. ...Read more.

Ivor Gaber reviewed Political Turbulence on 21 January in Times Higher Education (THE). "Chaotic pluralism...a new kind of pluralism, highly decentred and chaotic" is what we're living through, if we are to believe the authors of Political Turbulence. The authors, whose disciplinary backgrounds range across political science, computational science and physics, argue that this new status quo has resulted from the intrusion, if that's the right word, of social media into the political sphere, an intrusion that they describe as "unstable, unpredictable and often unsustainable". ...Read more