Critical perspectives on social media and protest : between control and emancipation /

Other Authors: Dencik, Lina, Leistert, Oliver
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London New York : Rowman & Littlefield International , 2015.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Lina Dencik and Oliver Leistert
  • Promise and practice in studies of social media and movements / Sebastian Haunss
  • Algorithmic control and visibility
  • The revolution will not be liked : on the systemic constraints of corporate social media platforms for protests / Oliver Leistert
  • Mobilizing in times of social media : from a politics of identity to a politics of visibility / Stefania Milan
  • Temporal alienation and redefining spaces
  • Social media, immediacy and the time for democracy: critical reflections on social media as "temporalising practices" / Veronica Barassi
  • "This space belongs to us!" : protest spaces in times of accelerating capitalism / Anne Kaun
  • Surveillance, censorship and political economy
  • Social media censorship, privatised regulation, and new restrictions to protest and dissent / Arne Hintz
  • Social media protest in context : surveillance, information management, and neoliberal governance in Canada / Joanna Redden
  • Preempting dissent : from participatory policing to collaborative filmmaking / Greg Elmer
  • Dissent and fragmentation from within
  • The struggle within : discord, conflict and paranoia in social media protest / Emiliano Treré Social media and the 2013 protests in Brazil: the contradictory nature of political mobilization in the digital era / Mauro P. Porto and JoaÌrant
  • Myths and organisational trajectories
  • Social media and the "new authenticity" of protest / Lina Dencik
  • Network cultures and the architecture of decision / Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter
  • Notes on contributors.