Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge (eBook)

Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies

Elisabetta Ferrari (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2024
244 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520402041 (ISBN)

Infos

Activists use digital technologies to communicate, coordinate, and organize for social change. But these big corporate digital platforms are also used to spread disinformation, racism, and abuse. Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge investigates the relationship between activism and technology, focusing on how activists think and talk about technology’s role in social change and what this tells us about the politics of digital technologies.
 
Researching movements in Italy, Hungary, and the United States, Elisabetta Ferrari examines how leftist activists construct technological imaginaries that appropriate, negotiate, and challenge Silicon Valley’s vision of technology. She argues that these imaginaries reflect and shape the politics of social movements: they matter for how activists think about their political possibilities. Ultimately, Ferrari centers the political and imaginative work that activists need to perform in order to navigate the politics of mainstream digital technologies.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 

1. Introduction 
2. Technological Imaginaries and the Universal Ambitions of Silicon Valley 
3. The Symbolic Power of Mundane Modernity: The Imaginary of Appropriation of the 
    Hungarian Internet Tax Protests 
4. Fighting the System with the Tools of the System: LUMe’s Imaginary of Negotiation 
5. Organizing Where People Are: Philly Socialists’ Imaginary of Negotiation 
6. Conclusion 

Methodological Appendix 
Notes 
References 
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.11.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • Digital technologies • Internet • Metropolitan University Laboratory • political organizing • politics of technology • radical politics • Silicon Valley • socialist politics • Social Media • technology and leftist social movements • technosolutionism
• ISBN-13: 9780520402041 / 9780520402041