Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge

Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-520-40202-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 368 g

Activists use digital technologies to communicate, coordinate, and organize for social change. But these big corporate digital platforms are also used to spread disinformation, racism, and abuse. Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge investigates the relationship between activism and technology, focusing on how activists think and talk about technology’s role in social change and what this tells us about the politics of digital technologies.

Researching movements in Italy, Hungary, and the United States, Elisabetta Ferrari examines how leftist activists construct technological imaginaries that appropriate, negotiate, and challenge Silicon Valley’s vision of technology. She argues that these imaginaries reflect and shape the politics of social movements: they matter for how activists think about their political possibilities. Ultimately, Ferrari centers the political and imaginative work that activists need to perform in order to navigate the politics of mainstream digital technologies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ferrari, Elisabetta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

2. Technological Imaginaries and the Universal Ambitions of Silicon Valley

3. The Symbolic Power of Mundane Modernity: The Imaginary of Appropriation of the Hungarian Internet Tax Protests

4. Fighting the System with the Tools of the System: LUMe’s Imaginary of Negotiation

5. Organizing Where People Are: Philly Socialists’ Imaginary of Negotiation

6. Conclusion

Methodological Appendix

Notes

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Elisabetta Ferrari is an AIAS-AUFF Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark.