@ is for Activism

Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in a Digital Culture

Nonfiction, Computers, Networking & Communications, General Computing, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science
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Author: Joss Hands ISBN: 9781783710515
Publisher: Pluto Press Publication: December 20, 2010
Imprint: Pluto Press Language: English
Author: Joss Hands
ISBN: 9781783710515
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication: December 20, 2010
Imprint: Pluto Press
Language: English

How have politics and activism been transformed by digital media, including digital television, online social networking and mobile computing?*BR**BR*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. *BR**BR*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.

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How have politics and activism been transformed by digital media, including digital television, online social networking and mobile computing?*BR**BR*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. *BR**BR*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.

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