Loupe
Search Loader

Paolo Gerbaudo 
Tweets and the Streets 
Social Media and Contemporary Activism

Support
Best-seller
Couverture du Paolo Gerbaudo: Tweets and the Streets (PDF)
What should we make of the culture of the protest movements of the 21st century? From the Arab Spring to the ‘indignados’ protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest.



Gerbaudo argues that activists’ use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a ‘cyberspace’ detached from physical reality. Instead, social media is used as part of a project of re-appropriation of public space, which involves the assembling of different groups around ‘occupied’ places such as Cairo’s Tahrir Square or New York’s Zuccotti Park.



An exciting and invigorating journey through the new politics of dissent, Tweets and the Streets points both to the creative possibilities and to the risks of political evanescence which new media brings to the contemporary protest experience.
€124.99
méthodes de payement

Table des matières

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. ‘Friendly’ reunions: Social media and the choreography of assembly

2. ‘We are not guys of comment and like’: The revolutionary coalescence of shabab-al-Facebook

3. We are not on Facebook, we are on the streets! The harvesting of indignation

4. The hash-tag which did (not) start a revolution: The laborious adding up to the 99%

5. Follow me, but don’t ask me to lead you! Liquid organising and choreographic leadership

Notes

Index

A propos de l’auteur

Paolo Gerbaudo is the Director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College, London. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets (2012), and The Mask and the Flag (2017).
Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 208 ● ISBN 9781849648004 ● Taille du fichier 6.5 MB ● Maison d’édition Pluto Press ● Lieu London ● Pays GB ● Publié 2012 ● Édition 1 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 2585583 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
Nécessite un lecteur de livre électronique compatible DRM

Plus d’ebooks du même auteur(s) / Éditeur

24 299 Ebooks dans cette catégorie