Taylor & Francis Ltd - Social Media Materialities And Protest Critical Reflections - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Far from being neutral social media platforms such as Facebook Twitter You Tube and We Chat possess their own material characteristics which shape how people engage protest resist and struggle. This innovative collection advances the notion of social media materialities to draw attention to the ways in which the wires and silicon data streams and algorithms user and programming interfaces business models and terms of service steer contentious practices and inversely how technologies and economic models are handled and performed by users. The key question is how the tension between social media's techno - commercial infrastructures and activist agency plays out in protest. Addressing this the volume goes beyond singular empirical examples and focuses on the characteristics of protest and social media materialities offering further conceptualizations and guidance for this emerging field of research. The various contributions explore a wide variety of activist projects protests and regions ranging from Occupy in the US a to environmental protests in China and from the Mexican Barrio N mada to the Copenhagen - based activist television channel TV Stop (1987 2005).
Title: Social Media Materialities And Protest Critical Reflections
Brand: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781138093089
Pages: 164 Pages, 1 Tables, Black And White
Publication Date: 12/7/2018
Category: Political Activism