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Cyberprotest : new media, citizens, and social movements
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"This book critically assess how ICTs are finding their way into the world of social movements, considering overarching issues and providing examples of cyberprotest movements from across the globe...
"This book critically assess how ICTs are finding their way into the world of social movements, considering overarching issues and providing examples of cyberprotest movements from across the globe. It will be valuable reading for students and academics in politics, media and communication, public administration, sociology and ICT. It will also be of great interest to policy makers and social activists."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Creator
- edited by Wim van de Donk ... [and others] ; foreword by Peter Dahlgren
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- London ; New York : Routledge, 2004
- Physical Details
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- xix, 316 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780415297844, 0415297842, 9780415297851, 0415297850
- OCLC
- ocm53485142
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [276]-305) and index.
- Foreword / Peter Dahlgren -- 1. Introduction : social movements and ICTs / Wim van de Donk, Brian D. Loader, Paul G. Nixon and Dieter Rucht -- Pt. I. Changing the levels and domains of political actions -- 2. The quadruple 'A' : media strategies of protest movements since the 1960s / Dieter Rucht -- 3. Politicizing Homo economicus : analysis of anti-corporate websites / Jacob Rosenkrands -- 4. Informing, communicating and ICTs in contemporary anti-capitalist movements / Steve Wright -- Pt. II. Changing strategies and stratagems : action and activism in the information age -- 5. New media, new movements? The role of the internet in shaping the 'anti-globalization' movement / Peter van Aelst and Stefaan Walgrave -- 6. Communicating global activism : strengths and vulnerabilities of networked politics / W. Lance Bennett -- 7. Mass media driven mobilization and online protest : ICTs and the pro-East Timor movement in Portugal / Gustavo Cardoso and Pedro Pereira Neto -- 8. ATTAC(k)ing expertise : does the internet really democratize knowledge? / Brigette Le Grignou and Charles Patou -- Pt. III. Citizenship, identity and virtual movements -- 9. The Dutch women's movement online : internet and the organizational infrastructure of a social movement / Arthur Edwards -- 10. Dis@bled people, ICTs and a new age of activism : a Portuguese accessibility special interest group study / Rita Cheta -- 11. The Queer Sisters and its electronic bulletin board : a study of the internet for social movement mobilization / Joyce Y. M. Nip -- 12. Politics and identity in cyberspace : a case study of Australian women in agriculture online / Barbara Pini, Kerry Brown and Josephine Previte