Cyberprotest : new media, citizens, and social movements / edited by Wim van de Donk [and others] ; foreword by Peter Dahlgren.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Donk, Wim van de, 1962-
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Subjects:
Information technology > Social aspects.
Information technology > Political aspects.
Internet > Social aspects.
Internet > Political aspects.
Cyberspace > Political aspects.
Social movements.
Protest movements.
Social action.
Physical Description:xix, 316 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 1. Introduction : social movements and ICTs
  • 2. The quadruple 'A' : media strategies of protest movements since the 1960s
  • 3. Politicizing Homo economicus : analysis of anti-corporate websites
  • 4. Informing, communicating and ICTs in contemporary anti-capitalist movements
  • 5. New media, new movements? The role of the internet in shaping the 'anti-globalization' movement
  • 6. Communicating global activism : strengths and vulnerabilities of networked politics
  • 7. Mass media driven mobilization and online protest : ICTs and the pro-East Timor movement in Portugal
  • 8. ATTAC(k)ing expertise : does the internet really democratize knowledge?
  • 9. The Dutch women's movement online : internet and the organizational infrastructure of a social movement
  • 10. Dis@bled people, ICTs and a new age of activism : a Portuguese accessibility special interest group study
  • 11. The Queer sisters and its electronic bulletin board : a study of the internet for social movement mobilization
  • 12. Politics and identity in cyberspace : a case study of Australian women in Agriculture online.