Technoethics and digital democracy for future citizens / Rocci Luppicini -- Smartphone guns shooting tweets: killing the "other" in Palestine / Ryan Kiggins -- Digital media, civic literacy, and civic engagement: the "promise and peril" of internet politics in Canada / J. R. Lacharite -- Influence of social networking sites on civic participation in higher education context / Seyedali Ahrari, Zeinab Zaremohzzabieh, Bahaman Abu Samah -- Digital democracy in authoritarian Russia: opportunity for participation, or site of Kremlin control? / Rachel Baarda -- E-government and e-democracy in the supranational arena: the enforcing of transparency and democratic legitimacy in the European Union / Eugenio Salvati -- Youth online cultural participation and Bilibili: an alternative form of democracy in China? / Yiyi Yin, Anthony Fung -- Transnational activism of young Spanish emigrants and uses of ICT / Mauricio N. Olivera, Denise Cogo -- Empowering citizens through virtual and alternate reality / Vanessa Camilleri, Alexiei Dingli, Matthew Montebello -- Digital humour, gag laws, and the liberal security state / Judith Bessant.