@ Is For Activism: Dissent, Resistance And Rebellion In A 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.

Author: Joss Hands
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 12/20/2010
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.30w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780745327006

Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2011

About the Author
Joss Hands is Reader in Communication, Film and Media and Co-Director of the Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

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