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@ is for Activism

Joss Hands
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      How have politics and activism been transformed by digital media, including digital television, online social networking and mobile computing?Since the emergence of new technologies, new modes of cooperation, deliberation and representation have risen to the fore, @ is for Activism maps out how political relationships have been reconfigured and new have emerged through the use of new technologies. A host of critical thinkers populate the study, from Martin Heidegger and Herbert Marcuse criticism of technology's close relation to capitalism, to media networks' actualising the Habermasian ideal of collective communicative action, Hands delineates the potentials and the pitfalls of a technologised politics. From anti-war activism, to global justice movements, peer production and 'Twitter' activism, we see how politics is being shaped by the new technological environment.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Joss Hands EAN: 9780745327006 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 291 g HEIGHT: 215 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Pluto Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-12-09 CITY: GENRE: COMPUTERS / Networking / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy WIDTH: 135 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Media studies, Political activism / Political engagement

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      Joss Hands is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University. He is the author of Gadget Consciousness: Collective Thought, Will and Action in the Age of Social Media and @ is For Activism: Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in Digital Culture.
      How have politics and activism been transformed by digital media, including digital television, online social networking and mobile computing?Since the emergence of new technologies, new modes of cooperation, deliberation and representation have risen to the fore, @ is for Activism maps out how political relationships have been reconfigured and new have emerged through the use of new technologies. A host of critical thinkers populate the study, from Martin Heidegger and Herbert Marcuse criticism of technology's close relation to capitalism, to media networks' actualising the Habermasian ideal of collective communicative action, Hands delineates the potentials and the pitfalls of a technologised politics. From anti-war activism, to global justice movements, peer production and 'Twitter' activism, we see how politics is being shaped by the new technological environment.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Joss Hands EAN: 9780745327006 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 291 g HEIGHT: 215 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Pluto Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-12-09 CITY: GENRE: COMPUTERS / Networking / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy WIDTH: 135 cm SPINE:

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      Media studies, Political activism / Political engagement

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      Joss Hands is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University. He is the author of Gadget Consciousness: Collective Thought, Will and Action in the Age of Social Media and @ is For Activism: Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in Digital Culture.

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