Social Media, Politics and the State (eBook, ePUB)

Protests, Revolutions, Riots, Crime and Policing in the Age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube
Redaktion: Trottier, Daniel; Fuchs, Christian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by social media scholars who explore the connection of social media with revolutions, uprising, protests, power and counter-power, hacktivism, the state, policing and surveillance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317655473
• Artikelnr.: 41212534

Autorenporträt

Daniel Trottier is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Social and Digital Media at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) at University of Westminster. Christian Fuchs is Professor of Social Media at the University of Westminster.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Daniel Trottier and Christian Fuchs 2. Thank You, Facebook:
A Critical Discussion on Democratic and Communicative Practices in the
Global Uprisings Donatella Della Porta and Alice Mattoni 3. The Role of
Social Media and the 2011 Egyptian Revolution: Creating Spaces for Dissent
Sarah Salem 4. Social Media Activism and Authoritarian Regimes Thomas Poell
5. Anti-Social Networking: Toward a Critical Political Economic Critique of
Anonymous and the "New Hacktivism" Ashley Fogle 6. The Ruse of Neo-Nazism
and the Web: Social Media as Platforms for Racist Discourses in the Context
of Greek Economic Crisis Panos Kompatsiaris and Yannis Mlylonas 7. More
Than an Electronic Soapbox: Activist Web Presence as a Collective Action
Frame, Newspaper Source and Police Surveillance Tool During the London G20
Protests in 2009 Jonathan Cable 8. Counter-Hegemonic Surveillance
Assemblages: Live Streaming Critiques of Capital and the State in the
Quebec Spring Elise Thorburn 9. Police "Image Work" in an Era of Social
Media Christopher J. Schneider 10. Policing Social Media: Crowd-Sourced and
Consolidated Efforts Daniel Trottier 11. Populism(s) 2.0: Social Media and
the Symbolic Battle for the "People" Paolo Gerbaudo