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Record Nr.

UNINA9910436252803321

Autore

Hands Joss

Titolo

@ is for activism : dissent, resistance and rebellion in a digital culture / / Joss Hands

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Pluto, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

9781849645393

9781783710515

1849645396

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 210 pages)

Disciplina

303.4833

Soggetti

Political participation - Technological innovations

Digital communications - Political aspects

Online social networks - Political aspects

Digital media - Political aspects

Internet - Political aspects

Political activists

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Activism and Technology -- 2. The Digital Author as Producer -- 3. Protocol, Norm, Imperative: Networks as Moral Machines -- 4. Power-Law Democracy -- 5. Mobil(e)isation -- 6. @ is also for Alter-Globalisation -- 7. Constructing the Common: Cooperation and Multitude -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

How have politics and activism been transformed by digital media, including digital television, online social networking and mobile computing?    Since the emergence of new technologies, new modes of cooperation, deliberation and representation have risen to the fore, @ is for Activism maps out how political relationships have been reconfigured and new have emerged through the use of new technologies. A host of critical thinkers populate the study, from Martin Heidegger and Herbert Marcuse criticism of technology's close relation



to capitalism, to media networks' actualising the Habermasian ideal of collective communicative action, Hands delineates the potentials and the pitfalls of a technologised politics.    From anti-war activism, to global justice movements, peer production and 'Twitter' activism, we see how politics is being shaped by the new technological environment.