Digital Revolutions: Activism in the Internet Age

von Symon Hill

160 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

- Contemporary and up to date, it provides an accessible overview of how rapidly cyber-activism is changing.- Based on cyber-activists real-life experiences rather than theory and abstract statistics.- Takes a realistic view, exploring the limitations and dangers of cyber-activism as well as uses and successes.- Asks questions about the internet's role that other books fail to.- It considers future prospects, dealing with the extension of internet access and resistance to corporate control.- Broad in scope, crossing trade and academic markets.- New Internationalist have published books and articles about the many forms of activism for over 20 years.- Written by an author with first-hand experience of grassroots activism.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Politik und Staat Politische Ideologien und Bewegungen
• ISBN: 9781780260761
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.05.2013
• Größe: 216 x 136 mm
• Verlag: New Internationalist