Media And Protest Logics In The Digital Era

Author : Francis Lap Fung Lee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190856777
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era written by Francis Lap Fung Lee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 79 days in 2014, Hong Kong became the focus of international attention due to a public demonstration for genuine democracy that would become known as the Umbrella Movement. On the surface, this movement was not unlike other large-scale protest movements that have occurred in recent years. However, it was distinct in how bottom-up processes evolved into a centrally organized, programmatic movement with concrete policy demands. This book analyzes how traditional mass media institutions and digital media combined with on-the-ground networks in such a way as to propel citizen participation and.

Author : Anne Kaun
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1783607394
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crisis and Critique written by Anne Kaun and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, innovations in media have had a profound impact on protest and dissent. But while these recent developments in social media have been the subject of intense scholarly attention, there has been little consideration of the wider historical role of media technologies in protest. Drawing on the work of key theorists such as Walter Benjamin and Raymond Williams, Crisis and Critique provides a historical analysis of media practices within the context of major economic crises. Through richly detailed case studies of the movements which emerged during three different economic crises – the unemployed workers' movement of the Great Depression, the rent strike movement of the early 1970s and the Occupy Wall Street protests which followed the recession of 2007 – Kaun provides an in-depth analysis of the cultural, economic and social consequences of media technologies, and their role in shaping and facilitating resistance to capitalism.

Author : W. Lance Bennett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107025745
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Logic of Connective Action written by W. Lance Bennett and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Logic of Connective Action shows how political action is coordinated and power is organized in communication-based networks, and what political outcomes may result.

Author : Markos Moulitsas Zuniga
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440635528
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking on the System written by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-08-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “primer for activists in the digital age”* the founder of DailyKos.com establishes the new rules of today's political battleground to empower everyday people to take action and effect positive change. The walls between the people and the power are being torn down thanks to our ever-evolving, social media loving, tech-savvy culture. By understanding the new dynamics and rules of power in the digital era, you too can change the world. Founder of one of the nation's most influential political blogs, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga has drawn up his revolutionary strategies such as: • Reinvent the street protest • Feed the backlash • Demolish your opponents with ridicule • Identify heroes and villains Written for both the general public and the grassroots activist, Taking on the System is a timely reminder of the potential power and influence of everyday people. “The most coherent guide to political organizing—on or off the Internet—penned in a generation.”—Al Giordano

Author : Lina Dencik
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1783483377
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest written by Lina Dencik and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Cristina Flesher Fominaya
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042976846X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technology, Media and Social Movements written by Cristina Flesher Fominaya and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an interdisciplinary set of contributions from leading scholars, and explores the complex relationship between media, technology and social movements. It provides a valuable resource for scholars and students working in this rapidly developing field. Providing theoretical engagement with contemporary debates in the field of social movements and new media, the book also includes a theoretical overview of central contemporary debates, a re-evaluation of theories of social movement communication, and a critical overview of media ecology and media approaches in social movement scholarship. The theoretical contributions are also developed though empirical case studies from around the world, including the use of Facebook in student protests in the UK, the way power operates in Anonymous, the "politics of mundanity" in China, the emotional dynamics on Twitter of India’s Nirbhaya protest, and analysis of Twitter networks in the transnational feminist campaign ‘Take Back The Tech!’. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Movement Studies.

Author : Adrienne Russell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 150951130X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Journalism as Activism written by Adrienne Russell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mediated digital era, communication is changing fast and eating up ever greater shares of real-world power. Corporate battles and guerrilla wars are fought on Twitter. Facebook is the new Berlin, home to tinkers, tailors, spies – and terrorist recruiters. We recognize the power shift instinctively but, in our attempts to understand it, we keep using conceptual and theoretical models that are not changing fast, that are barely changing at all, that are laid over from the past. Journalism remains one of the main sites of communication power, an expanded space where citizens, protesters, PR professionals, tech developers and hackers can directly shape the news. Adrienne Russell reports on media power from one of the most vibrant corners of the journalism field, the corner where journalists and activists from countries around the world cross digital streams and end up updating media practices and strategies. Russell demonstrates the way the relationship between digital journalism and digital activism has shaped coverage of the online civil liberties movement, the Occupy movement, and the climate change movement. Journalism as Activism explores the ways everyday meaning and the material realities of media power are tied to the communication tools and platforms we have access to, the architectures of digital space we navigate, and our ability to master and modify our media environments.

Author : David Faris
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085772598X
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dissent and Revolution in a Digital Age written by David Faris and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Arab uprisings of early 2011, which saw the overthrow of Zine el-Abadine Ben Ali in Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, the role of digital media and social networking tools was widely reported. With tens of thousands publicly committed to public protest through their online social networks, and with calls to protest circulating through email networks, Facebook groups, and street organizing, the activists had set in motion a staged confrontation with the Egyptian regime, of the sort that had previously been unthinkable. The potentially subversive nature of social networks was also recognized by the very authorities fighting against popular pressure for change, and the Egyptian government's attempt to block internet and mobile phone access in January 2011 demonstrated this. What is yet to be examined is the local context that allowed digital media to play this role: in Egypt, for example, a history of online activism has laid important ground work. Here, David Faris argues that it was circumstances particular to Egypt, more than the 'spark' from Tunisia, that allowed the revolution to take off: namely blogging and digital activism stretching back into the 1990s, combined with sustained and numerous protest movements and an independent press. During the Mubarak era, where voicing a political opinion was - to say the least - risky, and registering as a political party was onerous and precarious undertaking, it was online avenues of discussion and debate that flourished. Over the course of those years, digital activists - bloggers and later, users of other forms of social media like Twitter, Facebook and Youtube - scored a number of important victories over the regime, over issues largely revolving around human rights. Faris analyses these activists and their online activities and campaigns, examining how the internet was used as a space in which to create identities and spur action. Dissent and Revolution in a Digital Age tracks the rocky path taken by Egyptian bloggers operating in Mubarak's authoritarian regime to illustrate how the state monopoly on information was eroded, making space for dissent and for those previously without a voice.

Author : Moses Shumow
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781433124549
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mediated Communities written by Moses Shumow and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediated Communities brings together a diverse, global cohort of academics and professional communicators to assess the current state of democratic mobilizing around the world and the ways in which protest movements are being transformed in the midst of a communication revolution. Contributors draw on a variety of international settings - from Greece to Lebanon, China to Argentina - to demonstrate the ways in which community organizing in the digital age relies increasingly on digital media to communicate, help participants find common ground, and fight for change. Contributors acknowledge the challenges that lie ahead for creating real and lasting democratic change, but at the same time are able to draw attention to the potential that digital media hold for strengthening citizen voices around the globe.

Author : Ching Kwan Lee
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501740938
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Take Back Our Future written by Ching Kwan Lee and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-day occupation movement in Hong Kong known as the Umbrella Movement. The essays presented here by a team of experts with deep local knowledge ask: how and why had a world financial center known for its free-wheeling capitalism transformed into a hotbed of mass defiance and civic disobedience? Take Back Our Future argues that the Umbrella Movement was a response to China's internal colonization strategies—political disenfranchisement, economic subsumption, and identity reengineering—in post-handover Hong Kong. The contributors outline how this historic and transformative movement formulated new cultural categories and narratives, fueled the formation and expansion of civil society organizations and networks both for and against the regime, and spurred the regime's turn to repression and structural closure of dissent. Although the Umbrella Movement was fraught with internal tensions, Take Back Our Future demonstrates that the movement politicized a whole generation of people who had no prior experience in politics, fashioned new subjects and identities, and awakened popular consciousness.