What's Trending in Canadian Politics? – Understanding Transformations in Power, Media, and the Public Sphere

What trends are shaping contemporary political communication and behaviour in Canada, and where are they heading? What's Trending in Canadian Politics? examines political communication and democratic governance in a digital age. Exploring the effects of conventional and emerging political communication practices in Canada, contributors investigate the uses of digital media for political communication, grassrootsdriven protest, public behaviour prediction, and relationships between members of civil society and the political establishment. Original and timely, this interdisciplinary volume lays robust theoretical and methodological foundations for the study of transformative trends in Canadian political communication.

Mireille Lalancette is a political communication professor at Université du Québec a TroisRivières. Vincent Raynauld is assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Emerson College, Boston, and affiliate professor in the Département de lettres et communication sociale at Université du Québec a TroisRivières. Erin Crandall is assistant professor in the Department of Politics at Acadia University, Nova Scotia.