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    Tweets and the Streets

    Social Media and Contemporary Activism

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    Author(s)
    Gerbaudo, Paolo
    Collection
    Knowledge Unlatched (KU)
    Number
    100871
    Language
    English
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    Abstract
    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.
    URI
    http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30772
    Keywords
    Political Science; Social Media; Activism; Twitter; Facebook; Arab Spring; Occupy; Indignados; public space; Tahrir Square; Zuccotti Park; Horizontalism; Social Movements; Media Studies; Spain
    ISBN
    9781849648004;9781849648011
    OCN
    818317949
    Publisher
    Pluto Press
    Publisher website
    https://www.plutobooks.com/
    Publication date and place
    2012-10-20
    Grantor
    • Knowledge Unlatched - 100871 - KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection
    Classification
    Media studies
    Public remark
    Relevant Wikipedia pages: Activism - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activism; Facebook - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook; Occupy Wall Street - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street; Public space - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_space; Social media - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media; Social movement - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_movement; Spain - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain; Twitter - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter; 21-7-2020 - No DOI registered in CrossRef for ISBN 9780745332499
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    https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
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