Now in paperback for the first time, Social Movements and their
Technologies explores the interplay between social movements and their
'liberated technologies'. It analyzes the rise of low-power radio
stations and radical internet projects ('emancipatory communication
practices') as a political subject, focusing on the sociological and
cultural processes at play. It provides an overview of the
relationship between social movements and technology, and investigates
what is behind the communication infrastructure that made possible the
main protest events of the past fifteen years. In doing so, Stefania
Milan illustrates how contemporary social movements organize in order
to create autonomous alternatives to communication systems and
networks, and how they contribute to change the way people communicate
in daily life, as well as try to change communication policy from the
grassroots. She situates these efforts in a historical context in
order to show the origins of contemporary communication activism, and
its linkages to media reform campaigns and policy advocacy.
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ISBN
9781137313546
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Palgrave Macmillan
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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