ISBN:
9781529239539
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1529239532
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
1 online resource
DDC:
302.231
Keywords:
Electronic books.
Abstract:
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-ND licence This book pulls back the curtain on the link between technology and activism, showing shows how activists navigate the impact of digital media on today's grassroots politics.
Description / Table of Contents:
Front Cover -- Activists in the Data Stream: The Practices of Daily Grassroots Politics in Southern Europe -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Everyday Grassroots Politics in the Data Stream -- Activism, digital media, and big data in times of protest -- Digital media and big data during the quiet moments of grassroots politics -- Mediatization, digitalization, and datafication -- Activism, data, and the data stream -- A practice approach for the investigation of activism in the data stream
Description / Table of Contents:
Four practices of grassroots politics in the data stream -- Backstage and front-stage practices -- Political and mundane practices -- Organization of the book -- 2 Activists' Quest for Information Amid Data Abundance -- Defining the practice of information gathering -- The centrality of legacy media for accessing the public discourse of political elites -- The reconstruction of grassroots political debates via social media and algorithms -- The multiple temporalities of data for activists -- Activists amid data abundance -- Filtering activities -- Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
3 The Multiple Patterns Towards Visibility During Latency Stages -- The practice of gaining visibility -- Legacy media as challenging spaces for visibility -- The dilemma of becoming a data source for legacy media -- I do social media ergo sum -- Gaining visibility through alternative media -- Conclusion -- 4 Algorithmic Visibility and Activists' Management of Reputation -- The constraints of algorithmic visibility -- The construction of visibility through reputation -- The individualization of visibility in social media platforms
Description / Table of Contents:
Facing the immediacy of algorithmic visibility through materiality -- Conclusion -- 5 The Accelerated Times of Activists' Organizational Work -- The practice of political organizing -- The organization of daily political work between the two sides of the data stream -- The accelerated times of the data stream -- The data stream and the dissolution of context boundaries -- Slow down and interrupt the data stream -- The data stream amid surveillance, privacy, and the protection of communication -- The luxury of face-to-face communication -- Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
6 The Creation of Connections Between Activists and Their Audiences -- The practice of sustaining connections -- Face-to-face interactions that sustain movement organizations and their coalitions -- Three ways to nurture the connection with movement organizations' supporters -- Connecting with bystanders between public and private online interactions -- Sustaining connections through private interactions -- Sustaining connections through public interactions -- Writing on smartphones to keep connections alive -- Conclusion -- 7 The Fragile Interactions Between Activists and Journalists
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Open Access Publishing in European Networks
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