Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest: Between Control and Emancipation

Dencik, Lina

ISBN 10: 1783483369 / ISBN 13: 9781783483365

Published by Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015

About this Item

This book critically interrogates the relationship between social media and protest from an interdisciplinary perspective, examining the multiple ways in which we need to politicize and contextualise commercial social media platforms, in particular with regards to their use for the purposes of anti-systemic and progressive protest movements. Editor(s): Dencik, Lina; Leistert, Oliver. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 227 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360. . 2015. Paperback. . . . .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest: Between Control and Emancipation
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783483369
• ISBN 13: 9781783483365
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book critically interrogates the relationship between social media and protest from an interdisciplinary perspective, examining the multiple ways in which we need to politicize and contextualise commercial social media platforms, in particular with regards to their use for the purposes of anti-systemic and progressive protest movements.

About the Author

Lina Dencik is Lecturer in the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK.


Oliver Leistert is a postdoctoral researcher at the DFG Research Training Group “Automatisms” at University Paderborn, Germany.