Social Movements and Their Technologies - Wiring Social Change

Zusatztext "The book is geared towards an advancedundergraduate audience and offers a comprehensive overview on how activists andorganizers have harnessed technology in their struggles for social change. ? SocialMovements and Their Technologies is an important contribution to a growingliterature focused on the way activists and organizers utilize information andcommunication technologies in their work." (Todd Wolfson! Mobilization! 2015) "Stefania Milan's study of emancipatory media activism represents a distillation of her considerable research into its many forms over a number of years and in a number of countries! inflected by her own experience as an information activist. She gives full weight to the critical gender dimension of the subject! to a spectrum of technology uses! and the intersections with vital policy issues. Hers is a very substantive contribution to debate around social movement media." - John D.H. Downing! Editor! Sage Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media "Emancipatory communicative practices are at the basis of social movement action. Through innovative ideas and rigorous research! this volume has much to contribute to our understanding of media and political activism." - Donatella della Porta! co-editor! The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements "Stefania Milan's Social Movements and Their Technologies is a comprehensive work on dissent networking and a must read for anyone wishing a thorough understanding of the topic." - Oxblood Ruffin! member of the hacker group! Cult of the Dead Cow 'Social Movements and Their Technologies provides a rich overview of the Internet-enabled social movements that are working from the 'outside-in' to promote Internet openness and rights. Backed up with detailed empirical research! this book is a must-read for those interested in grassroots and alternative forms of political participation in the digital age.' Ron Deibert! Director of the Citizen Lab! University of Toronto! Canada! and author of Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace 'Social Movements and Their Technologies is a highly topical examination of the nature of media justice work in the world today! and Milan convincingly argues that we should take seriously that the media activism she discusses can legitimately be studied as a social movement in its own right.' - Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly! 2014 Informationen zum Autor Stefania Milan is AssistantProfessor at Tilburg University, Netherlands and a fellow at the Citizen Lab,University of Toronto, Canada. Her research encompasses social movements andactivism, the interplay between technologies and society, and the politics ofcode.  Klappentext "Stefania Milan's study of emancipatory media activism represents a distillation of her considerable research into its many forms over a number of years and in a number of countries, inflected by her own experience as an information activist. She gives full weight to the critical gender dimension of the subject, to a spectrum of technology uses, and the intersections with vital policy issues. Hers is a very substantive contribution to debate around social movement media." - John D.H. Downing, Editor, Sage Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media " Emancipatory communicative practices are at the basis of social movement action. Through innovative ideas and rigorous research, this volume has much to contribute to our understanding of media and political activism." - Donatella della Porta, co-editor, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements " Stefania Milan's Social Movements and Their Technologies is acomprehensive work on dissent networking and a must read for anyone wishing a thorough understanding of the topic." - Oxblood Ruffin, member of the hacker group, Cult of the Dea...

List of contents

Foreword.- Preface.- 1.Stealing the Fire: An Introduction to Emancipatory Communication Activism.- 2.Three Decades of Contention: The Roots of Contemporary Activism.- 3.Movement Formation and Identity Building.- 4.Organizational Forms.- 5.Repertories of Action: Mobilizing Inside, Outside and Beyond.- 6.Like a Karst River: A Transnational Movement in the Making?- Epilogue.- Appendix I:Methods and Epistemology of Engaged Research References.- Index.

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"The book is geared towards an advanced undergraduate audience and offers a comprehensive overview on how activists and organizers have harnessed technology in their struggles for social change. ... Social Movements and Their Technologies is an important contribution to a growing literature focused on the way activists and organizers utilize information and communication technologies in their work." (Todd Wolfson, Mobilization, 2015)
"Stefania Milan's study of emancipatory media activism represents a distillation of her considerable research into its many forms over a number of years and in a number of countries, inflected by her own experience as an information activist. She gives full weight to the critical gender dimension of the subject, to a spectrum of technology uses, and the intersections with vital policy issues. Hers is a very substantive contribution to debate around social movement media." - John D.H. Downing, Editor, Sage Encyclopedia of Social Movement Media
"Emancipatory communicative practices are at the basis of social movement action. Through innovative ideas and rigorous research, this volume has much to contribute to our understanding of media and political activism." - Donatella della Porta, co-editor, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
"Stefania Milan's Social Movements and Their Technologies is a comprehensive work on dissent networking and a must read for anyone wishing a thorough understanding of the topic." - Oxblood Ruffin, member of the hacker group, Cult of the Dead Cow
'Social Movements and Their Technologies provides a rich overview of the Internet-enabled social movements that are working from the 'outside-in' to promote Internet openness and rights. Backed up with detailed empirical research, this book is a must-read for those interested in grassroots and alternative forms of political participation in the digital age.' Ron Deibert, Director of the Citizen Lab, University of Toronto, Canada, and author of Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace
'Social Movements and Their Technologies is a highly topical examination of the nature of media justice work in the world today, and Milan convincingly argues that we should take seriously that the media activism she discusses can legitimately be studied as a social movement in its own right.' - Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 2014

Product details

• Authors: Dr. Stefania Milan, Stefania Milan
• Assisted by: Dee Dee Halleck (Foreword)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2016
• EAN: 9781137558152
• ISBN: 978-1-137-55815-2
• No. of pages: 251
• Series: Perspektiven der Mathematikdidaktik; Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Miscellaneous; B, Media Studies, Political Science, Communication, Political Theory, Political science & theory, Terrorism, armed struggle, Media and Communication, Communication Studies, Computers and Society, Terrorism, Political Violence, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Computers and civilization, Political Communication, Palgrave Media & Culture Collection, Terrorism and Political Violence