TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gerbaudo, Paolo
AB  - Tweets and the Streets analyses the culture of the new protest movements of the 21st century. From the Arab Spring to the 'indignados' protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest.   Gerbaudo argues that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a 'cyberspace' detached from physical reality. Instead, social media is used as part of a project of re-appropriation of public space, which involves the assembling of different groups around 'occupied' places such as Cairo’s Tahrir Square or New York’s Zuccotti Park.   An exciting and invigorating journey through the new politics of dissent, Tweets and the Streets points both to the creative possibilities and to the risks of political evanescence which new media brings to the contemporary protest experience.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 642730
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 818317949
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Social Media
KW  - Activism
KW  - Twitter
KW  - Facebook
KW  - Arab Spring
KW  - Occupy
KW  - Indignados
KW  - public space
KW  - Tahrir Square
KW  - Zuccotti Park
KW  - Horizontalism
KW  - Social Movements
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - Spain
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/ccbd46d1-1873-4be6-868d-2caee9ff3cbb/642730.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30772
PB  - Pluto Press
PY  - 2012-10-20
SN  - 9781849648004;9781849648011
TI  - Tweets and the Streets : Social Media and Contemporary Activism
ER  - 
