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Social Media Materialities and Protest - Critical Reflections (Hardcover)
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Social Media Materialities and Protest - Critical Reflections (Hardcover)
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Far from being neutral, social media platforms - such as Facebook,
Twitter, YouTube, and WeChat - possess their own material
characteristics, which shape how people engage, protest, resist,
and struggle. This innovative collection advances the notion of
social media materialities to draw attention to the ways in which
the wires and silicon, data streams and algorithms, user and
programming interfaces, business models and terms of service steer
contentious practices and, inversely, how technologies and economic
models are handled and performed by users. The key question is how
the tension between social media's techno-commercial
infrastructures and activist agency plays out in protest.
Addressing this, the volume goes beyond singular empirical examples
and focuses on the characteristics of protest and social media
materialities, offering further conceptualizations and guidance for
this emerging field of research. The various contributions explore
a wide variety of activist projects, protests, and regions, ranging
from Occupy in the USA to environmental protests in China, and from
the Mexican Barrio Nomada to the Copenhagen-based activist
television channel TV Stop (1987-2005).
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