Protests In The Information Age

Author : Lucas Melgaço,Jeffrey Monaghan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351815420

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Protests in the Information Age by Lucas Melgaço,Jeffrey Monaghan Pdf

Information and communication technologies have transformed the dynamics of contention in contemporary society. Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and devices such as smartphones have increasingly played a central role in facilitating and mobilizing social movements throughout different parts of the world. Concurrently, the same technologies have been taken up by public authorities (including security agencies and the police) and have been used as surveillance tools to monitor and suppress the activities of certain demonstrators. This book explores the complex and contradictory relationships between communication and information technologies and social movements by drawing on different case studies from around the world. The contributions analyse how new communication and information technologies impact the way protests are carried out and controlled in the current information age. The authors focus on recent events that date from the Arab Spring onwards and pose questions regarding the future of protests, surveillance and digital landscapes.

Author : Mahmood Monshipouri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107140769

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Information Politics, Protests, and Human Rights in the Digital Age by Mahmood Monshipouri Pdf

This edited collection offers a fresh perspective on how a quiet digital revolution from below spreads throughout the world.

Author : Billur Aslan Ozgul
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030254506

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Leading Protests in the Digital Age by Billur Aslan Ozgul Pdf

This book explores in detail new protest organisation and mobilisation strategies of young activists in the digital age with the aim to identify the tactics that worked well against those creating high risks in the context of digitally supported protests. Focusing on Egyptian protests as well as peaceful protests in Syria, the book offers rich and unique data as it brings together the experiences and voices of the key figures involved in the protests, both on the ground and online. It challenges perspectives that defined the Arab uprisings as leaderless movements formed through the non-hierarchical communication of digital technologies. The author presents three kinds of leaders that shape the political communication environment in digitally supported protests and highlights the significance of their leadership skills to the movements’ capacities.

Author : Mahmood Monshipouri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Human rights
ISBN : 1316656365

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Information Politics, Protests, and Human Rights in the Digital Age by Mahmood Monshipouri Pdf

Author : Irving Epstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789463000550

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The WholeWorld is Texting by Irving Epstein Pdf

The authors of this volume address multiple questions involving the nature of youth protest in the twenty-first century. Through their use of a case study approach, they comment upon the ways in which youth protest has been influenced by the electronic and social media and evaluate the effectiveness of protest activities, many of which were framed in reaction to neo-liberalism and state authoritarianism. A number of the authors further comment upon the utility of employing social movement theory to analyze the nature and character of protest actions, while others situate such events within specific political, social and cultural contexts. The case studies focus upon protest activities in Bahrain, Turkey, Iran, Cambodia, South Africa, China, Russia, Chile, Spain, and the U.S., and together, they offer a comparative analysis of an important global phenomenon. In so doing, the authors further address issues involving the changing nature of globalized protest participation, its immediate and long-term consequences, and the ways in which protests have encouraged a re-evaluation of the nature of inequality, as constructed within educational, social, and political spheres.

Author : Billur Aslan Ozgul
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3030254526

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Leading Protests in the Digital Age by Billur Aslan Ozgul Pdf

This book explores in detail new protest organisation and mobilisation strategies of young activists in the digital age with the aim to identify the tactics that worked well against those creating high risks in the context of digitally supported protests. Focusing on Egyptian protests as well as peaceful protests in Syria, the book offers rich and unique data as it brings together the experiences and voices of the key figures involved in the protests, both on the ground and online. It challenges perspectives that defined the Arab uprisings as leaderless movements formed through the non-hierarchical communication of digital technologies. The author presents three kinds of leaders that shape the political communication environment in digitally supported protests and highlights the significance of their leadership skills to the movements’ capacities.

Author : Solo, Ashu M. G.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781466660670

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Handbook of Research on Political Activism in the Information Age by Solo, Ashu M. G. Pdf

Technology, and particularly the Internet, has caused many changes in the realm of politics. Mainstream media no longer has a monopoly on political commentary as social media, blogs, and user-generated video streaming sites have emerged as an outlet for citizens and political activists to openly voice their opinions, organize political demonstrations, and network online. The Handbook of Research on Political Activism in the Information Age includes progressive research from more than 39 international experts at universities and research institutions across 15 different countries. Each of the 25 scholarly chapter contributions focus on topics pertaining to the application of information technology, engineering, and mathematics to political activism. Through its analysis of the methods for political activism in the information age, the effectiveness of these methods, as well as emerging analytical tools, this book is designed for use by researchers, activists, political scientists, engineers, computer scientists, journalists, professors, students and professionals working in the fields of politics, e-government, media and communications, and Internet marketing.

Author : Kevin Gillan,Jenny Pickerill,Frank Webster
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131672136

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Anti-War Activism by Kevin Gillan,Jenny Pickerill,Frank Webster Pdf

Based on over 60 interviews, case studies of a full range of groups, and analysis of extensive documentary evidence, this title studies the anti-war movement since the mammoth demonstrations of February 15th 2003 that dwarfed any previous protests in British history.

Author : Daniel Trottier,Christian Fuchs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317655473

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Social Media, Politics and the State by Daniel Trottier,Christian Fuchs Pdf

This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by social media scholars who explore the connection of social media with revolutions, uprising, protests, power and counter-power, hacktivism, the state, policing and surveillance. It shows how collective action and state power are related and conflict as two dialectical sides of social media power, and how power and counter-power are distributed in this dialectic. Theoretically focused and empirically rigorous research considers the two-sided contradictory nature of power in relation to social media and politics. Chapters cover social media in the context of phenomena such as contemporary revolutions in Egypt and other countries, populism 2.0, anti-austerity protests, the fascist movement in Greece's crisis, Anonymous and police surveillance.

Author : Suisheng Zhao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351216418

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Chinese Authoritarianism in the Information Age by Suisheng Zhao Pdf

This book examines information and public opinion control by the authoritarian state in response to popular access to information and upgraded political communication channels among the citizens in contemporary China. Empowered by mass media, particularly social media and other information technology, Chinese citizen’s access to information has been expanded. Publicly focusing events and opinions have served as catalysts to shape the agenda for policy making and law making, narrow down the set of policy options, and change the pace of policy implementation. Yet, the authoritarian state remains in tight control of media, including social media, to deny the free flow of information and shape public opinion through a centralized institutional framework for propaganda and information technologies. The evolving process of media control and public opinion manipulation has constrained citizen’s political participation and strengthened Chinese authoritarianism in the information age. The chapters originally published as articles in the Journal of Contemporary China.

Author : Matthew G. Hannah
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1409408132

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Dark Territory in the Information Age by Matthew G. Hannah Pdf

Through a detailed account of the West German census controversies of the 1980s, this book offers a robust and geographical sense of what effective 'resistance' and 'empowerment' might mean in an age when the intensification of 'surveillance society' appears to render us ever more passive and incapable of controlling our own registration.

Author : Billur Aslan Ozgul
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Youth
ISBN : OCLC:1160247301

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Leading Protests in the Digital Age by Billur Aslan Ozgul Pdf

This book explores in detail new protest organisation and mobilisation strategies of young activists in the digital age with the aim to identify the tactics that worked well against those creating high risks in the context of digitally supported protests. Focusing on Egyptian protests as well as peaceful protests in Syria, the book offers rich and unique data as it brings together the experiences and voices of the key figures involved in the protests, both on the ground and online. It challenges perspectives that defined the Arab uprisings as leaderless movements formed through the non-hierarchical communication of digital technologies. The author presents three kinds of leaders that shape the political communication environment in digitally supported protests and highlights the significance of their leadership skills to the movements' capacities. Billur Aslan Ozgul is Lecturer in Political Communication at Brunel University London, UK. Her work on social movements, social media and the Middle East has been published in the International Journal of Communication, Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, and the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.

Author : Yahya R. Kamalipour
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781442204171

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Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age by Yahya R. Kamalipour Pdf

Focusing on the Iranian presidential elections of 2009 and ensuing demonstrations in major cities across Iran and world, Media, Power, and Politics in the Digital Age provides a balanced discussion of the role and impact of modern communication technologies, particularly the novel utilization of 'small digital media' vis-^-vis the elections and global media coverage. Written in a non-technical, easy to read, and accessible manner, the volume will appeal to scholars, students, policy makers and print professionals alike. To provide a global overview of media coverage and diverse perspectives on the controversial 2009 presidential election, this book consists of 24 original essays, covering issues from global media coverage to new media-social networking, from the ideological-political dimensions to the cultural facets of the elections. Organized in a cohesive manner, the writing styles and presentation remain varied and richly informative.

Author : Steven Feldstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190057497

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The Rise of Digital Repression by Steven Feldstein Pdf

"A Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Book" -- dust jacket.

Author : Alberto Melucci
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996-09-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521578434

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Challenging Codes by Alberto Melucci Pdf

In Challenging Codes Melucci brings an original perspective to research on collective action which both emphasizes the role of culture and makes telling connections with the experience of the individual in postmodern society. The focus is on the role of information in an age which knows both fragmentation and globalisation, building on the analysis of collective action familiar from the author's Nomads of the Present. Melucci addresses a wide range of contemporary issues, including political conflict and change, feminism, ecology, identity politics, power and inequality.