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The politics of becoming : anonymity and democracy in the digital age /

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What roles do our identities play in democratic politics? When we participate in citizens' assemblies or in social movement gatherings, we are judged by how we look, which clothes we wear, by our skin colour, gender and body language. This book explores radical democratic acts of disidentificat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Asenbaum, Hans, 1982- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Democracy > Social aspects.
Social media > Political aspects.
Social media and society.
Médias sociaux > Aspect politique.
Médias sociaux et société.
Democracy > Social aspects
Social media and society
Social media > Political aspects
Politics & government.
Politics and Government.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Becoming subject to change: an introduction
  • 2. Becoming assemblage: democratic spaces
  • 3. Becoming present: feminist interventions
  • 4. Becoming multiple: identity, interrupted
  • 5. Becoming anonymous: absence as presence
  • 6. Becoming cyborg: new (inter)faces
  • 7. Unleashing the democratic microverse: towards systemic transformations
  • References
  • Index.