<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Lina Dencik</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk">DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 5:46 PM<br>Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest<br>To: peter waterman <<a href="mailto:peterwaterman1936@gmail.com">peterwaterman1936@gmail.com</a>>, WSFDiscuss List <<a href="mailto:WorldSocialForum-Discuss@openspaceforum.net">WorldSocialForum-Discuss@openspaceforum.net</a>>, "<<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>>" <<a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a>><br><br><br>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">New book: “Critical Perspectives on Social Media and Protest: Between Control and Emancipation”</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Editors: Lina Dencik & Oliver Leistert</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium"><a href="http://www.rowmaninternational.com/books/critical-perspectives-on-social-media-and-protest" target="_blank">http://www.rowmaninternational.com/books/critical-perspectives-on-social-media-and-protest</a></div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">This book critically interrogates the relationship between social media</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">and protest from an interdisciplinary perspective, examining the</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">multiple ways in which we need to politicize and contextualise</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">commercial social media platforms, in particular with regards to their</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">use for the purposes of anti-systemic and progressive protest movements.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Commercial social media platforms have become integral to contemporary</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">forms of protests. They are intensely used by advocacy groups,</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">non-governmental organisations, social movements and other political</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">actors who increasingly integrate social media platforms into broader</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">practices of organizing and campaigning. But, aside from the many</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">advantages of extensive mobilization opportunities at low cost, what are</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">the implications of social media corporations being involved in these</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">grassroots movements? This book takes a much-needed critical approach to</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">the relationship between social media and protest. Highlighting key</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">issues and concerns in contemporary forms of social media activism,</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">including questions of censorship, surveillance, individualism, and</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">temporality, the book combines contributions from some of the most</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">active scholars in the field today. Advancing both conceptual and</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">empirical work on social media and protest, and with a range of</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">different angles, the book provides a fresh and challenging outlook on a</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">very topical debate.</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">“At last, a collection on social media and protest that is genuinely</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">critical, spanning both the nature of the technological tools the</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">political-economic environment they are part of, the organisational</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">responses these formations then lend themselves to and the political</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">consequences they reap. Rich in detail, broad in remit, interrogatory by</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">design this will be my ‘turn to’ book on this subject for years to come.”</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">- Natalie Fenton, Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">University of London</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">“Refusing simple explanations and traversing protest movements from</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">around the globe, this collection is essential reading for academics and</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">activists alike. The volume interrogates the power and systemic</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">shortcomings of corporate-based social media as deployed during moments</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">of revolution, rupture, and dissent. Operating simultaneously as an</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">authoritative force that regiments social relations and a fetishistic</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">object that congeals desires, these media are shot through with a series</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">of contradictions.”</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">- Gabriella Coleman, Wolfe Chair in Scientific and Technological</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Literacy Department of Art History & Communication Studies, McGill</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">University</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">“This collection provides a much-needed antidote to the ready equation</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">of social media and political empowerment. It counters the cyber-hype</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">with a truly critical collection of readings that explore the political</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">limits and potentials of social media. This is a crucial volume for</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">anyone interested in the key political question of our time: the</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">relationship between media technology and activism.”</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">- Mark Andrejevic, Associate Professor of Media Studies, Pomona College</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Contents:</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">1. Promise and Practice in Studies of Social Media and Movements,</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Sebastian Haunss</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Part I: Algorithmic Control and Visibility / 2. The Revolution Will Not</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Be Liked: On the Systemic Constraints of Corporate Social Media</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Platforms for Protests, Oliver Leistert / 3. Mobilizing in Times of</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Social Media: From a Politics of Identity to a Politics of Visibility,</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Stefania Milan</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Part II: Temporal Alienation and Redefining Spaces / 4. Social Media,</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Immediacy and the Time for Democracy: Critical Reflections on Social</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Media as ‘Temporalising Practices’, Veronica Barassi / 5. “This Space</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Belongs to Us!”: Protest Spaces in Times of Accelerating Capitalism,</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Anne Kaun</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Part III: Surveillance, Censorship and Political Economy / 6. Social</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Media Censorship, Privatised Regulation, and New Restrictions to Protest</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">and Dissent, Arne Hintz / 7. Social Media Protest in Context:</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Surveillance, Information Management, and Neoliberal Governance in</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Canada, Joanna Redden / 8. Pre-empting Dissent: From Participatory</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Policing to Collaborative Filmmaking, Greg Elmer</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Part IV: Dissent and Fragmentation From Within / 9. The Struggle Within:</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Discord, Conflict and Paranoia in Social Media Protest, Emiliano Treré /</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">10. Social Media and the 2013 Protests in Brazil: The Contradictory</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Nature of Political Mobilization in the Digital Era, Mauro P. Porto and</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">João Brant</div>
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<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">Part V: Myths and Organisational Trajectories / 11. Social Media and the</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">‘New Authenticity’ of Protest, Lina Dencik / 12. Network Cultures and</div>
<div style="font-family:Consolas;font-size:medium">the Architecture of Decision, Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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<div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="2">Dr Lina Dencik</font></div>
<div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="2">Lecturer / Director MA Journalism, Media and Communication</font></div>
<div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="2">School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University</font></div>
<div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="2">Bute Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3NB</font></div>
<div style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font size="2">Email: <a href="mailto:DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk" target="_blank">DencikL@cardiff.ac.uk</a>, Tel: +44 (0)29 208 75461</font></div>
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