Protest Technologies and Media Revolutions
The Longue Durée
Athina Karatzogianni editor Michael Schandorf editor Ioanna Ferra editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Emerald Publishing Limited
Published:26th Nov '20
Should be back in stock very soon
Contains an Open Access chapter.
Protest Technologies and Media Revolutions portrays the critical role of mass connection in the success of any movement, resurrection, protest, and revolution.
The communication mechanisms for this connection have, at times, evolved and elsewhere undergone revolutions of their own. Authors debate this relationship, and the strategies and lessons of 'connecting to the masses' considering the development of media, technology and communication strategies over the last century. Key topics covered include revolution, communication, protest and technology, spanning from the Russian Revolution to the present day.
The discussion is not limited to historic cases of technology and revolution, nor to contemporary ones. The book, therefore, generates a debate about how art, media and communication technologies have been operationalized to connect, mobilize and organize, in different historical times, and in diverse national, political, and socio-economic contexts.
'Protest Technologies and Media Revolutions is an innovative collection which offers long-term, historically informed research essays in key intersections between activism, art, communication, protest organisation and ideology. The book enables comparisons between the Russian Revolution and more recent global mobilisations. This combination of historical perspective and global comparison is novel and distinctive, rendering this book a must read for scholars of resistance, activism, and social change from a media and communication perspective. ' -- Graham Meikle
ISBN: 9781839826474
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 556g
312 pages