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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828792503321

Autore

Pickerill Jenny

Titolo

Cyberprotest : Environmental activism online / / Jenny Pickerill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2003

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020

©2003

ISBN

1-84779-383-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

333.72

Soggetti

Internet - Political aspects

Environmentalism

Electronic books.

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 (p. [187]-205) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Politics, social movements and technology; 2 Negotiating the tensions of techno-environmentalism; 3 Inclusivity and changing organisational forms; 4 Mobilisation, solidarity and network cohesion; 5 Electronic tactics and digital alternative media; 6 Online surveillance andcounter-strategies; 7 Cyberprotest:a new politics of protest?; Appendix Case-study profiles; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Uses case studies and voices of activists themselves to examine the role of the internet at all levels of environmental activism. Contemporary analysis of forms and processes of radical environmental activism. Contemporary analysis of forms and processes of radical environmental activism. Documents the negotiations and achievements of environmentalists both in dealing with the tensions of using environmentally damaging technology and in avoiding surveillance and counter-strategies. Will be of interest to students and academics of politics, sociology, environmental studies and anyone who has ev