03225nam 2200613 450 991043625280332120240119031022.0978184964539397817837105151849645396(CKB)2670000000358369(ScCtBLL)6cb77d01-33ef-4374-9194-0d2508fb972e(MiAaPQ)EBC7120087(Au-PeEL)EBL7120087(OCoLC)730515019(EXLCZ)99267000000035836920230325d2011 uy 0enguru||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrier@ is for activism dissent, resistance and rebellion in a digital culture /Joss Hands1st ed.London ;New York :Pluto,[2011]©20111 online resource (vii, 210 pages)0-7453-2700-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.At is for activismA is for activismPolitical participationTechnological innovationsDigital communicationsPolitical aspectsOnline social networksPolitical aspectsDigital mediaPolitical aspectsInternetPolitical aspectsPolitical activists. Political participationTechnological innovations.Digital communicationsPolitical aspects.Online social networksPolitical aspects.Digital mediaPolitical aspects.InternetPolitical aspects.Political activists. .303.4833Hands Joss904381MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910436252803321@ is for Activism2022148UNINA