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Item Details
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FUTURE ACTIVE
MEDIA ACTIVISM AND THE INTERNET |
| By: |
Graham Meikle |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£60.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0415943213 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780415943215 |
| Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2002 |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
When the Internet first took off, we heard a lot about its potential for social change, about how it would revitalize democracy and create a new public sphere. Future Active puts such claims to the test, taking us behind the digital barricades. |
| Synopsis: |
The revolution will not be televised. But will it be online instead? When the Internet first took off, we heard a lot about its potential for social change. We heard it would revitalize democracy. We heard it would empower us. We heard we would all be publishers, working together to created a new public sphere. Future Active tests such claims. With fierce intelligence and wit, Graham Meikle takes us behind the digital barricades and into the heart of Internet activist campaigns. In the first in-depth look at this global phenomenon, the author talks to key players in the Indymedia movement and introduces us to the activists behind gwbush.com, the website that provoked the President to declare "there ought to be limits to freedom." The founder of Belgrade radio station B92 explains how they used the net to thwart Milosevic's censorship, while McLibel trial defendant Dave Morris talks about the role of the McSpotlight website. And pioneer hacktivists the Electronic Disturbance Theater introduce us to virtual sit-ins and electronic civil disobedience - while US military analysts offer a different perspective on this kind of information warfare. |
| Publication: |
US |
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Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group |
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Non-returnable |
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