Performing Digital Activism - New Aesthetics and Discourses of Resistance

Informationen zum Autor Fidèle A. Vlavo is Assistant Professor in Digital Communication at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico. Zusammenfassung This book offers an analysis of online direct action as creative and cultural performance. It examines the historical and present practices of artists-activists engaged in digital activism, including the work of Critical Art Ensemble, Electronic Disturbance Theatre and Anonymous. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Digital Performance1. 'I Come from Cyberspace': The Space of Resistance2. 'Little Electronic Shadow': The Virtual Body3. 'What CD was ECD is now': The Legacy of Contention4. 'Not Found on this Server': The Performance of Protest5. 'I Did It for the Lulz': The Humour of DisturbanceConclusion: Tactical Performance

Product details

• Authors: Fidele A. Vlavo, Fidèle A. Vlavo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2017
• EAN: 9781138911246
• ISBN: 978-1-138-91124-6
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Media science; Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Political activism, Political activism / Political engagement