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OverviewFar 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 Nómada to the Copenhagen-based activist television channel TV Stop (1987–2005). Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mette Mortensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) , Christina Neumayer (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) , Thomas Poell (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.300kg ISBN: 9781138093065ISBN 10: 1138093068 Pages: 176 Publication Date: 11 December 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor Information"Mette Mortensen is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the Principal Investigator of the collective research project ""Images of Conflict, Conflicting Images"" (2017–2021) and author or editor of seven books, including Eyewitness Images and Journalism (2015). Christina Neumayer is Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. Her research focusses on the role of media technologies in political conflict. She has published on digital media and activism, social movements, racism, and propaganda. Thomas Poell is Senior Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research focuses on digital platforms and public communication. He co-authored The Platform Society (2018), and co-edited Global Cultures of Contestation (2017) and The Sage Handbook of Social Media (2018)." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |