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Culture and politics in the information age : a new politics? / edited by Frank Webster.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Transnationalism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information society.
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Information technology.
- Information technology--Political aspects.
- Internet--Social aspects.
- Internet.
- Internet--Political aspects.
- Politics and culture.
- Social movements.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 231 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2001.
- Summary:
- This volume addresses these key issues through an analysis of important theoretical debates on issues such as digital democracy, cultural politics and transnational communities. Featuring contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, the book contains a series of case studies on new social movements including campaigns on the environment, gender, animal rights and human rights. It combines cutting edge research with theoretical material and makes an important contribution to this highly topical and rapidly growing area.
- Contents:
- 1 A new politics? / Frank Webster 1
- Part I New media, politics and culture 15
- 2 Democracy in the Information Age: the role of the Fourth Estate in cyberspace / Howard Tumber 17
- 3 From media politics to e-protest? The use of popular culture and new media in parties and social movements / Alan Scott, John Street 32
- 4 Proximity politics / John Tomlinson 52
- 5 The future of public media cultures: morality, ethics and ambivalence / Nick Stevenson 63
- 6 Contested power: political sociology in the Information Age / Kate Nash 81
- 7 A moment of moral remaking: the death of Diana, Princess of Wales / Sasha Roseneil 96
- Part II New social movements 115
- 8 Social movement networks: virtual and real / Mario Diani 117
- 9 Information Technology and new forms of organising? Translocalism and networks in Friends of the Earth / Neil Washbourne 129
- 10 Weaving a Green Web: environmental protest and computer-mediated communication in Britain / Jenny Pickerill 142
- 11 Grassroots environmental movements: mobilisation in an Information Age / Alan Dordoy, Mary Mellor 167
- 12 Globalisation, citizenship and technology: the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) meets the Internet / Peter (Jay) Smith, Elizabeth Smythe 183.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-223) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415246350
- 0415246369
- OCLC:
- 45667895
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