Social movements and their technologies : wiring social change
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Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013
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MILAN, Stefania, Social movements and their technologies : wiring social change, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/29918
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Social Movements and Their Technologies. Wiring Social Change 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 15 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.
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-- List of Figures and Tables
-- Acknowledgements
-- List of Abbreviations
-- 1. Stealing the Fire: An Introduction to Emancipatory Communication Activism
-- 2. Three Decades of Contention: The Roots of Contemporary Activism
-- 3. Movement Formation and Identity Building
-- 4. Organizational Forms
-- 5. Repertoires of Action: Mobilizing Inside, Outside and Beyond
-- 6. Like a Karst River: A Transnational Movement in the Making?
-- Epilogue
-- Appendix : Methods and Epistemology of Engaged Research
-- Notes
-- References
-- Index
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Published version of EUI PhD thesis, 2009