ISBN:
9780415749091
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (264 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society
Parallel Title:
Print version Social Media, Politics and the State
DDC:
302.23/1
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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-
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; SECTION ONE Introductions; 1 Theorising Social Media, Politics and the State: An Introduction; 2 Social Networking Sites in Pro-democracy and Anti-austerity Protests: Some Thoughts from a Social Movement Perspective; SECTION TWO Global and Civil Counter-Power; 3 Populism 2.0: Social Media Activism, the Generic Internet User and Interactive Direct Democracy; 4 Anonymous: Hacktivism and Contemporary Politics; SECTION THREE Civil Counter-Power Against Austerity
Description / Table of Contents:
5 The Rise of Nazism and the Web: Social Media as Platforms of Racist Discourses in the Context of the Greek Economic Crisis6 More Than an Electronic Soapbox: Activist Web Presence as a Collective Action Frame, Newspaper Source and Police Surveillance Tool During the London G20 Protests in 2009; 7 Assemblages: Live Streaming Dissent in the 'Quebec Spring'; SECTION FOUR Contested and Toppled State Power; 8 Creating Spaces for Dissent: The Role of Social Media in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution; 9 Social Media Activism and State Censorship; SECTION FIVE State Power as Policing and Intelligence
Description / Table of Contents:
10 Vigilantism and Power Users: Police and User-Led Investigations on Social Media11 Police 'Image Work' in an Era of Social Media: YouTube and the 2007 Montebello Summit Protest; Contributors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
