Tweets and the streets : social media and contemporary activism /
"From the Arab Spring to the 'indignados' protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of a new protest culture. Gerbaudo argues that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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London :
Pluto Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Free online access: Knowledge Unlatched.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "From the Arab Spring to the 'indignados' protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of a new protest culture. Gerbaudo argues that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a 'cyberspace' detached from physical reality. Instead, social media has been chiefly used as part of a project of re-appropriation of public space, and as a means to exert a form of soft leadership, involved in the 'choreographing' of collective action around symbolic 'occupied squares' from Tahrir to Zuccotti Park. Offering an exciting and invigorating journey through the politics of popular protest, this book points to both the possibilities and the risks that social media bring to the contemporary protest experience."--Page 4 of cover |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 194 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-187) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781849648004 184964800X 9781849648011 1849648018 |