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Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest : Between Control and Emancipation.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (250 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781783483372
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302.23/1
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Promise and Practice in Studies of Social Media and Movements -- I: Algorithmic Control and Visibility -- 2 The Revolution Will Not Be Liked -- 3 Mobilizing in Times of Social Media -- II: Temporal Alienation and Redefining Spaces -- 4 Social Media, Immediacy and the Time for Democracy -- 5 'This Space Belongs to Us!' -- III: Surveillance, Censorship and Political Economy -- 6 Social Media Censorship, Privatized Regulation and New Restrictions to Protest and Dissent -- 7 Social Media Protest in Context -- 8 Preempting Dissent -- IV: Dissent and Fragmentation from Within -- 9 The Struggle Within -- 10 Social Media and the 2013 Protests in Brazil -- V: Myths and Organizational Trajectories -- 11 Social Media and the 'New Authenticity' of Protest -- 12 Network Cultures and the Architecture of Decision -- Index -- Author Bios (In Order of Appearance).
Summary: This book critically interrogates the relationship between social media and protest from an interdisciplinary perspective, examining the multiple ways in which we need to politicize and contextualise commercial social media platforms, in particular with regards to their use for the purposes of anti-systemic and progressive protest movements.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Promise and Practice in Studies of Social Media and Movements -- I: Algorithmic Control and Visibility -- 2 The Revolution Will Not Be Liked -- 3 Mobilizing in Times of Social Media -- II: Temporal Alienation and Redefining Spaces -- 4 Social Media, Immediacy and the Time for Democracy -- 5 'This Space Belongs to Us!' -- III: Surveillance, Censorship and Political Economy -- 6 Social Media Censorship, Privatized Regulation and New Restrictions to Protest and Dissent -- 7 Social Media Protest in Context -- 8 Preempting Dissent -- IV: Dissent and Fragmentation from Within -- 9 The Struggle Within -- 10 Social Media and the 2013 Protests in Brazil -- V: Myths and Organizational Trajectories -- 11 Social Media and the 'New Authenticity' of Protest -- 12 Network Cultures and the Architecture of Decision -- Index -- Author Bios (In Order of Appearance).

This book critically interrogates the relationship between social media and protest from an interdisciplinary perspective, examining the multiple ways in which we need to politicize and contextualise commercial social media platforms, in particular with regards to their use for the purposes of anti-systemic and progressive protest movements.

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