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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787355903321

Autore

Carty Victoria

Titolo

Social Movements and New Technology / / by Victoria Carty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : Routledge, , [2018]

©2015

ISBN

0-429-97274-1

0-429-96166-9

0-429-49311-8

1-78539-555-6

0-8133-4587-1

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

302.231

Soggetti

Social movements - Technological innovations

Internet - Social aspects

Internet in political campaigns

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Foreword ""; ""Preface ""; ""Introduction: THe Digital Impact on Social Movements""; ""1. Social Movement Theories ""; ""2. New Digital Capabilities and Social Change ""; ""3. MoveOn.org and the Tea Party ""; ""4. Arab Spring ""; ""5. The Occupy Wall Street Movement and Its Precursors ""; ""6. Occupy Student Debt and the Dreamers ""; ""Conclusion: The Digital Future of Social Movements ""; ""References ""; ""Index ""

Sommario/riassunto

The emergence of new communication technologies (such as the Internet and social media networking sites and platforms) has strongly affected social movement activism. In this compelling and timely book, Victoria Carty examines these movements and their uses of digital technologies within the context of social movement theory and history.With an accessible and unique mix of theory and real-world examples, Social Movements and New Technology takes readers on a tour through MoveOn and Tea Party e-mail campaigns, the hacktivist tactics of Anonymous, global online protests against rapists and rape culture,



and the tweets and Facebook pages that accompanied uprisings across the Arab world, Europe, and the United States. In each case study, the reader is invited to examine the movement, organization, or protest and their use of digital tools through the lens of social movement theory. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter invite critical thinking, further reflection, and debate.