ISBN:
0415246350
,
0415246369
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 231 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Transnationalism
Parallel Title:
Print version Culture and Politics in the Information Age
DDC:
303.4833
Keywords:
Politics and culture
;
Social movements
;
Information technology Political aspects
;
Internet Social aspects
;
Information technology Social aspects
;
Information society
;
Internet Political aspects
;
Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
This book will be invaluable reading for students in areas including Politics, Communications and IT, Sociology and Cultural Studies
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; List of abbreviations; A new politics? FRANK WEBSTER; New media, politics and culture; Democracy in the Information Age: the role of the Fourth Estate in cyberspace HOWARD TUMBER; From media politics to e-protest? The use of popular culture and new media in parties and social movements ALAN SCOTT AND JOHN STREET; Proximity politics JOHN TOMLINSON; The future of public media cultures: morality, ethics and ambivalence NICK STEVENSON; Contested power: political sociology in the Information Age KATE NASH
Description / Table of Contents:
A moment of moral remaking: the death of Diana, Princess of Wales SASHA ROSENEILNew social movements; Social movement networks: virtual and real MARIO DIANI; Information Technology and new forms of organising? Translocalism and networks in Friends of the Earth NEIL WASHBOURNE; Weaving a Green Web: environmental protest and computer-mediated communication in Britain JENNY PICKERILL; Grassroots environmental movements: mobilisation in an Information Age ALAN DORDOY AND MARY MELLOR
Description / Table of Contents:
Globalisation, citizenship and technology: the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) meets the Internet PETER (JAY) SMITH AND ELIZABETH SMYTHEReferences; Index
Note:
Ciando e-book project
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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