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Protests in the Information Age - Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance (Hardcover)
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Protests in the Information Age - Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice
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Information and communication technologies have transformed the
dynamics of contention in contemporary society. Social networks
such as Facebook and Twitter, and devices such as smartphones have
increasingly played a central role in facilitating and mobilizing
social movements throughout different parts of the world.
Concurrently, the same technologies have been taken up by public
authorities (including security agencies and the police) and have
been used as surveillance tools to monitor and suppress the
activities of certain demonstrators. This book explores the complex
and contradictory relationships between communication and
information technologies and social movements by drawing on
different case studies from around the world. The contributions
analyse how new communication and information technologies impact
the way protests are carried out and controlled in the current
information age. The authors focus on recent events that date from
the Arab Spring onwards and pose questions regarding the future of
protests, surveillance and digital landscapes.
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