Includes index.

Politics & ICT: mechanisms, dynamics, implications / Anna Visvizi, Miltiadis Lytras -- From the freedom of the press to the freedom of the internet: a new public sphere in the making? / Claudia Toriz Ramos -- Diffusion patterns of political content over social networks / Marcal Mora-Cantallops, Zhengqi Yan and Salvador Sanchez-Alonso -- Contemporary politics and society: social media and public engagement in Belarus / Victor Shadurski, Galina Malishevskaya -- 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 -- Political campaigns, social media & analytics: the case of the GDPR / Nick Dimisianos -- Assessing compliance of open data in politics with European Data Protection Regulation / Francesco Ciclosi, Paolo Ceravolo, Ernesto Damiani, Donato De Ieso -- ICT, politics and cyber intelligence: revisiting the case of Snowden / Emanuel Boussios -- Government surveillance, national security, and the american rights: using sentiment analysis to extract citizen opinions / Lily Popova Zhuhadar, Mark Ciampa -- Information security risks in the context of Russian propaganda in the CEE / Aleksandra Kuczynska-Zonik, Agata Tatarenko -- The ICT and its uses: fighting corruption and promoting participatory democracy: the case of Romania / Cristina Matiuta -- Virtual Currencies in modern societies: challenges and opportunities / Higinio Mora, Francisco A. Pujol Lopez, Julio Cesar Mendoza Tello, Mario R. Morales -- Digital diplomacy in practice: a case study of the Western Balkan countries / Gorazd Justinek, Sabina Carli, Ingrid Omahna -- Social media and the Brazilian politics: a close look at the different perspectives and "The Brazil I Want" initiative / Cleber Pinelli Teixeira, Jonatas Castro dos Santos, Reisla D'Almeida Rodrigues, Sean Wolfgand Matsui Siqueira, Renata Araujo -- Evaluation of the national Open Government Data (OGD) portal of Saudi Arabia / Saxena Stuti -- E-government strategy and its impact on economic and social development in Saudi Arabia / Husseain Alhashimi -- Romancing top management: the politics of top management support in large information system projects / Gloria H.W. Liu, Cecil E.H Chua -- International trade on the ICT market / Katarzyna Zukrowska -- ICT and politics: looking ahead / Anna Visvizi,Miltiadis Lytras.

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