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Hybrid Media Activism - Ecologies, Imaginaries, Algorithms (Paperback)
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Hybrid Media Activism - Ecologies, Imaginaries, Algorithms (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics
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This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities,
ambiguities and shortcomings of contemporary digital activism. The
author deconstructs the reductionism of the literature on social
movements and communication, proposing a new conceptual vocabulary
based on practices, ecologies, imaginaries and algorithms to
account for the communicative complexity of protest movements.
Drawing on extensive fieldwork on social movements, collectives and
political parties in Spain, Italy and Mexico, this book
disentangles the hybrid nature of contemporary activism. It shows
how activists operate merging the physical and the digital, the
human and the non-human, the old and the new, the internal and the
external, the corporate and the alternative. The author illustrates
the ambivalent character of contemporary digital activism,
demonstrating that media imaginaries can be either used to conceal
authoritarianism, or to reimagine democracy. The book looks at both
side of algorithmic power, shedding light on strategies of
repression and propaganda, and scrutinizing manifestations of
algorithms as appropriation and resistance. The author analyses the
way in which digital activism is not an immediate solution to
intricate political problems, and argues that it can only be
effective when a set of favourable social, political, and cultural
conditions align. Assessing whether digital activism can generate
and sustain long-term processes of social and political change,
this book will be of interest to students and scholars researching
radical politics, social movements, digital activism, political
participation and current affairs more generally.
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