Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge
Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies
Seiten
2024
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520402034 (ISBN)
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520402034 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Elisabetta Ferrari is an AIAS-AUFF Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.10.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 7 b-w figures, 5 tables |
| Verlagsort | Berkerley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 544 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780520402034 / 9780520402034 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
| Informationen gemäß Produktsicherheitsverordnung (GPSR) | |
| Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt? |
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
aus dem Bereich
Grundzüge eines neoliberalen Raumregimes
Buch | Softcover (2025)
Matthes & Seitz Berlin (Verlag)
CHF 20,95
Grundlagen, Entwicklungen, Positionen
Buch | Hardcover (2023)
wbg Academic (Verlag)
CHF 55,95
