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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Leah A Lievrouw |
| ISBN: | 9780745641836 0745641830 9780745641843 0745641849 |
| OCLC Number: | 656772605 |
| Description: | ix, 294 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | The roots of alternative and activist new media -- Monkeywrenching the media machine : culture jamming -- Hacking the new out of the old : alternative computing -- Breaking through the information blockade : participatory journalism and indymedia -- Getting people on the "street" : mediated mobilization -- Challenging the experts : commons knowledge -- New media, mediation. |
| Series Title: | Digital media and society series. |
| Responsibility: | Leah A. Lievrouw. |
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"Providing theory and practical examples, the book will be useful not only to media scholars but also to those interested in politics and social change." Choice "I find this book to be quite the best on the subject ... A great textbook. I wish I'd written it!" Times Higher Education, What are you reading? "Leah Lievrouw's Alternative and Activist New Media provides the best text on new media and their political uses that I have read. Armed with an impressive arsenal of media and communication theory, Lievrouw offers as well detailed histories and analyses of a wealth of new media from the Internet to Twitter, presenting how activist groups and individuals have deployed them. The book should be extremely valuable to students and scholars alike, providing an exciting entry into a new world of culture and politics." Douglas Kellner, UCLA; Author of Media Culture and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy "Leah Lievrouw's Alternative and Activist New Media is a most welcome addition to the literature on digital media. The book treats a relatively overlooked and underappreciated aspect of new media: the politics of resistance to dominant media appropriations of computing. And Lievrouw's informed and intelligent consideration of the topic constitutes an excellent and accessible introduction. Alternative and Activist New Media should be warmly welcomed and will no doubt become the center of debate on the politics of digital media for some time." Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine "Leah Lievrouw uses concrete cases to describe how activists are using new media in jamming popular culture, cutting through institutional IT systems, scooping mainstream journalists, out maneuvering the political establishment, and outperforming the experts. Any student of communication and media studies will find this book an essential and refreshing guide for moving from old mass media perspectives and into the new media age." William H. Dutton, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Read more...
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