Description: Beyond the Internet : Unplugging the Protest Movement Wave, Paperback by Figueiras, Rita (EDT); Santo, Paula Do Espírito (EDT), ISBN 081537058X, ISBN-13 9780815370581, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The western economic and financial crisis began with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and led the European Union countries into recession. After this, governments started to implement austerity measures, such as cuts in public spending, including public subsidies and jobs, and rising prices. In this context, Europe started to experience a wave of protest movements. Individuals started to use the manifold interactive media environment to both fight against the austerity measures and find alternative ways of claiming their democratic rights. Inspired by the 2011 Arab Spring and the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York (USA), the Occupy LSX encampment in Central London (UK), The Outraged (Los Indignados)/ 15M encampment in Central Madrid (Spain), the Syntagma Square’s Outraged movement in Athens (Greece) and the March 12th Movement in Lisbon (Portugal), although short-lived, epitomize an emerging alternative politics and participation via the media. This wave has promoted a debate on how the realm of politics is changing, as citizens broaden their ideas of what political issues and participation mean. Beyond the Internet examines the technological dimension of the recent wave of protest movements in the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Ireland. Offering an opportunity to achieve a better understanding of the dynamics between society, politics and technology, this volume questions the essentialist attributes of the Internet that fuel the techno-centric discourse. The contributors illustrate how all these protest movements were active in the social media and garnered high levels of media attention and public visibility, in spite of their failure to achieve their political goals. As intra-elite dissent was pivotal in understanding the Arab uprisings, the coalition of national ruling elites with European institutions in terms of austerity strategy is essential in understanding the limits of media/technology power and, therefore, the dissociation between communication and representative power.
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Book Title: Beyond the Internet : Unplugging the Protest Movement Wave
Number of Pages: 158 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Beyond the Internet : Unplugging the Protest Movement Wave
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Political Process / Media & Internet, Political Process / General, Media Studies, Social History, Political Process / Political Advocacy, General, Censorship
Item Height: 0.4 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 8.8 Oz
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Author: Paula Do Espírito Santo
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Series: Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
