TY - BOOK ID - 352509 TI - @ is for activism : dissent, resistance and rebellion in a digital culture PY - 2011 SN - 9780745327006 9780745327013 0745327001 074532701X 9781849645393 1849645396 1783710519 9781783710515 PB - London ; New York : Pluto, DB - UniCat KW - Mass communications KW - Political sociology KW - Political participation KW - Digital communications KW - Digital media KW - Political activists. KW - Internet KW - Online social networks KW - Participation politique KW - Transmission numérique KW - Médias numériques KW - Activistes KW - Réseautage personnel (Informatique) KW - Technological innovations. KW - Political aspects KW - Political aspects. KW - Innovations KW - Aspect politique KW - Political activists KW - Technological innovations KW - Online social networksTechnological innovations KW - Transmission numérique KW - Médias numériques KW - Réseautage personnel (Informatique) KW - Sociology & Social History KW - Social Sciences KW - Social Change KW - Electronic social networks KW - Social networking Web sites KW - Virtual communities KW - Social media KW - Social networks KW - Sociotechnical systems KW - Web sites KW - Activists, Political KW - Persons KW - Electronic media KW - New media (Digital media) KW - Mass media KW - Online journalism KW - Communications, Digital KW - Digital transmission KW - Pulse communication KW - Digital electronics KW - Pulse techniques (Electronics) KW - Telecommunication KW - Signal processing KW - Citizen participation KW - Community action KW - Community involvement KW - Community participation KW - Involvement, Community KW - Mass political behavior KW - Participation, Citizen KW - Participation, Community KW - Participation, Political KW - Political activity KW - Political behavior KW - Political rights KW - Social participation KW - Politics, Practical KW - Digital techniques KW - Political Science / Political Process / Political Advocacy KW - Political science KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Social sciences KW - State, The KW - Communities, Online (Online social networks) KW - Communities, Virtual (Online social networks) KW - Online communities (Online social networks) KW - Political participation - Technological innovations KW - Digital communications - Political aspects KW - Digital media - Political aspects KW - Internet - Political aspects KW - Online social networks - Political aspects KW - Political activists.. KW - Effect of technological innovations on. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:352509 AB - 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. ER -