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Activism on the web everyday struggles against digital capitalism

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 a...

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Main Author: Barassi, Veronica (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Routledge 2015
Series:Routledge new developments in communication and society research 4
Subjects:
Information technology > Social aspects
Information technology > Political aspects
Capitalism > Social aspects
Political participation
Social action
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: activist cultures, the web, and digital capitalism
  • The ethnography of digital activism
  • Web 2.0 and the agency of technologies
  • Social media activism and the critique of mass self-communication
  • The everyday critique of digital labor
  • Digital activism and the problem of internet time
  • Activist magazines in the digital age
  • Conclusion: the future of the web, big data and the power of critique

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