The Rise of Nerd Politics: Digital Activism and Political Change (Anthropology, Culture & Society) - Hardcover

Postill, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745399843 ISBN 13: 9780745399843

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2018

Synopsis

Lively and wide-ranging, The Rise of Nerd Politics is a anthropological exploration of the role that freedom technologists play in sparking new processes of political change in the digital age. Drawing on John Postill’s anthropological fieldwork on social media and digital activism in Spain, Indonesia, and Malaysia, the book focuses on a new class of transnational political actors, arguing that freedom technologists have managed to shape the hybrid media worlds in which today’s political change unfolds. Comparing Spain’s ongoing techno-political transformation to that of Tunisia, Iceland, the United States, Malaysia, and Indonesia, Postill argues that in all five countries freedom technologists are playing significant roles in highly uneven ongoing political changes, with ramifications that will increasingly affect the future of politics in the digital age.
 

About this title

About the Author:

John Postill is the Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow in the School of Media and Communications at RMIT University, Melbourne.
 

Review:

'A fascinating and enlightening read, showing how real political change can be affected through digital means' - Paul Mason 'Do you hate Silicon Valley techno-solutionism and its anti-collective libertarian politics? Then you need a nerd-cleanse! John Postill's book reveals the real, global, rise of a 'nerd politics' that is so much richer, more diverse, and much more interesting than you suspected!' " - Christopher M. Kelty, University of California, Los Angeles

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0745399843
• ISBN 13: 9780745399843
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216