ISBN:
9780415717915
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (189 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge New Developments in Communication and Society Research
Parallel Title:
Print version Activism on the Web : Everyday Struggles against Digital Capitalism
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Activism on the Web examines the everyday tensions that political activists face as they come to terms with the increasingly commercialized nature of web technologies and sheds light on an important, yet under-investigated, dimension of the relationship between contemporary forms of social protest and internet technologies. Drawing on anthropological and ethnographic research amongst three very different political groups in the UK, Italy and Spain, the book argues that activists' everyday internet uses are largely defined by processes of negotiation with digital capitalism. These processes of
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Activist Cultures, the Web, and Digital Capitalism; 1 The Ethnography of Digital Activism; 2 Web 2.0 and the Agency of Technologies; 3 Social Media Activism and the Critique of Mass Self-Communication; 4 The Everyday Critique of Digital Labor; 5 Digital Activism and the Problem of Immediacy; 6 Activist Magazines in the Digital Age; Conclusion: The Future of the Web, Big Data, and the Power of Critique; Appendix 1: Activism on the Web: A Note on Method; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
