In The Future of Change, Ray Brescia identifies a series of "social
innovation moments" in American history. Through these
moments-during which social movements have embraced advances in
communications technologies-he illuminates the complicated,
dangerous, innovative, and exciting relationship between these
technologies, social movements, and social change. Brescia shows
that, almost without fail, developments in how we communicate shape
social movements, just as those movements change the very
technologies themselves. From the printing press to the television,
social movements have leveraged communications technologies to
advance change. In this moment of rapidly evolving communications,
it's imperative to assess the role that the Internet, mobile
devices, and social media can play in promoting social justice. But
first we must look to the past, to examples of movements throughout
American history that successfully harnessed communications
technology, thus facilitating positive social change. Such
movements embraced new communications technologies to help organize
their communities; to form grassroots networks in order to
facilitate face-to-face interactions; and to promote positive,
inclusive messaging that stressed their participants' shared
dignity and humanity. Using the past as prologue, The Future of
Change provides effective lessons in the use of communications
technology so that we can have the best communicative tools at our
disposal-both now and in the future.
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