Social Movements and Their Technologies

Wiring Social Change
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-55815-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 233 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3212 g

Now in paperback for the first time, Social Movements and their Technologies

explores the interplay between social movements and their 'liberated

technologies'. It analyzes the rise of low-power radio stations and radical

internet projects ('emancipatory communication practices') as a political

subject, focusing on the sociological and cultural processes at play. It

provides an overview of the relationship between social movements and

technology, and investigates what is behind the communication infrastructure

that made possible the main protest events of the past fifteen years. In doing

so, Stefania Milan illustrates how contemporary social movements organize in

order to create autonomous alternatives to communication systems and networks,

and how they contribute to change the way people communicate in daily life, as

well as try to change communication policy from the grassroots. She situates

these efforts in a historical context in order to show the origins of

contemporary communication activism, and its linkages to media reform campaigns

and policy advocacy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milan, Stefania

Weitere Mitwirkende

halleck, Dee Dee

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.- Preface.- 1.Stealing the Fire: An Introduction to Emancipatory Communication Activism.- 2.Three Decades of Contention: The Roots of Contemporary Activism.- 3.Movement Formation and Identity Building.- 4.Organizational Forms.- 5.Repertories of Action: Mobilizing Inside, Outside and Beyond.- 6.Like a Karst River: A Transnational Movement in the Making?- Epilogue.- Appendix I:Methods and Epistemology of Engaged Research References.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Stefania Milan is Assistant
Professor at Tilburg University, Netherlands and a fellow at the Citizen Lab,
University of Toronto, Canada. Her research encompasses social movements and
activism, the interplay between technologies and society, and the politics of
code.