| Description |
xiv, 300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: Reinventing democracy in practice: an assemblyled, leaderless movement -- From deliberation to action: the question of violence -- A political movement against the political system -- A rhizomatic revolution -- Occupy Wall Street: Harvesting the Salt of the Earth -- The outrage, the thunder, the spark -- The prairie on fire -- A networked movement -- Direct democracy in practice -- A non-demand movement: "The process is the message" -- Violence against a non-violent movement -- What did the movement achieve? -- The salt of the Earth -- Changing the World in the Network Society -- Networked social movements: an emerging pattern? -- Internet and the culture of autonomy -- Networked social movements and reform politics: an impossible love? -- Beyond Outrage, Hope: The Life and Death of Networked Social Movements |
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Machine generated contents note: Opening: Networking Minds, Creating Meaning, Contesting Power -- Prelude to Revolution: Where It All Started -- Tunisia: "The Revolution of Liberty and Dignity" -- Iceland's Kitchenware Revolution: from financial collapse to crowdsourcing a new constitution -- Southern wind, northern wind: cross-cultural levers of social change -- The Egyptian Revolution -- Space of flows and space of places in the Egyptian revolution -- State's response to an Internet-facilitated revolution: the great disconnection -- Who were the protesters, and what was the protest? -- Women in revolution -- The Islamic question -- "The revolution will continue" -- Understanding the Egyptian revolution -- Dignity, Violence, Geopolitics: The Arab Uprisings -- Violence and the state -- A digital revolution? -- A Rhizomatic Revolution: Indignadas in Spain -- A self-mediated movement -- What did/do the indignadas want? -- The discourse of the movement -- |
| Summary |
Based on original fieldwork by the author and his collaborators as well as secondary sources, this book provides an analysis of the new forms of social movements and offers an analytical template for advancing the debates triggered off by them concerning the new forms of social change and political democracy in the global network society |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Information networks.
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Information society.
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Information technology -- Cultural aspects
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Information technology -- Political aspects.
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Information technology -- Social aspects.
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Internet -- Social aspects.
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Online social networks -- Political aspects.
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Social conflict.
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Social movements -- Political aspects.
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Social movements.
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Technology and civilization.
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| Author |
Castells, Manuel, 1942-
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| LC no. |
2012493002 |
| ISBN |
0745662846 |
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0745662854 (pb) |
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9780745662848 |
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9780745662855 (pb) |
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