Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest (eBook, PDF)

Between Control and Emancipation
Redaktion: Dencik, Lina; Leistert, Oliver

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Commercial social media platforms have become integral to contemporary forms of protests. They are intensely used by advocacy groups, non-governmental organisations, social movements and other political actors who increasingly integrate social media platforms into broader practices of organizing and campaigning. But, aside from the many advantages of extensive mobilization opportunities at low cost, what are the implications of social media corporations being involved in these grassroots movements? This book takes a much-needed critical approach to the relationship between social media and protest. Highlighting key issues and concerns in contemporary forms of social media activism, including questions of censorship, surveillance, individualism, and temporality, the book combines contributions from some of the most active scholars in the field today. Advancing both conceptual and empirical work on social media and protest, and with a range of different angles, the book provides a fresh and challenging outlook on a very topical debate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216236672
• Artikelnr.: 74841532

Autorenporträt

Lina Dencik is Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK. Oliver Leistert is a postdoctoral researcher at the DFG Research Training Group "Automatisms" at University Paderborn, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction, Lina Dencik and Oliver Leistert / 1. Promise and Practice in
Studies of Social Media and Movements. Sebastian Haunss / Part I:
Algorithmic Control and Visibility / 2. The Revolution Will Not Be Liked:
On the Systemic Constraints of Corporate Social Media Platforms for
Protests, Oliver Leistert / 3. Mobilizing in Times of Social Media: From a
Politics of Identity to a Politics of Visibility, Stefania Milan / Part II:
Temporal Alienation and Redefining Spaces / 4. Social Media, Immediacy and
the Time for Democracy: Critical Reflections on Social Media as
'Temporalising Practices', Veronica Barassi / 5. "This Space Belongs to
Us!": Protest Spaces in Times of Accelerating Capitalism, Anne Kaun / Part
III: Surveillance, Censorship and Political Economy / 6. Social Media
Censorship, Privatised Regulation, and New Restrictions to Protest and
Dissent, Arne Hintz / 7. Social Media Protest in Context: Surveillance,
Information / Management, and Neoliberal Governance in Canada, Joanna
Redden / 8. Preempting Dissent: From Participatory Policing to
Collaborative Filmmaking, Greg Elmer / Part IV: Dissent and
Fragmentation From Within / 9. The Struggle Within: Discord, Conflict and
Paranoia in Social Media Protest, Emiliano Treré / 10. Social Media and the
2013 Protests in Brazil: The Contradictory Nature of Political Mobilization
in the Digital Era, Mauro P. Porto and João Brant / Part V: Myths and
Organisational Trajectories / 11. Social Media and the 'New Authenticity'
of Protest. Lina Dencik / 12. Network Cultures and the Architecture of
Decision. Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter / Notes on Contributors