Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left (History of Communication)
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| Rating | : | 4.64 (570 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0252080386 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 248 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Makes an original contribution through the depth of the empirical case studies of Cyber Left organization. I cannot think of another book that puts so much of the story of the U.S. The author's knowledge, thoughtfulness, and political passion is evident." --Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games. left's experiments with the creation of an 'electronic fabric of struggle' within a single volume
"A superb analysis of contemporary leftist politics" according to Victor Pickard, University of Pennsylvania. Digital Rebellion is a captivating study of the rise of the Cyber Left. It focuses much needed attention on one of the most important developments in Internet culture and radical politics of the last two decades: Indymedia. By situating the independent media center historically and theoretically, Wolfson offers a superb clear-eyed analysis of contemporary leftist politics. Through ethnographic re. Dr. Wolfson provides a forward thinking study of media and social movements A must read for students of media and social movements. A rich history and set of lessons for organizers and activists. Digital Rebellion is the product of rigorous research and theory born of practice.. Smart take on networked activism DelMar Multiple-Hyena This is an engagingly written, clear-eyed, and important study of contemporary activism, combining traditional and cyber-based ethnographic research. Digital Rebellion shows how networked communication technologies and practices were conscripted in an activist imaginary that the author calls the Cyber Left, which is essential to our understanding of left social movements including Indymedia and O
After examining the historical antecedents and rise of the global Indymedia network, Wolfson melds virtual and traditional ethnographic practice to explore the Cyber Left's cultural logic, mapping the social, spatial and communicative structure of the Indymedia network and detailing its operations on the local, national and global level. He also looks at the participatory democracy that governs global social movements and the ways the movement's twin ideologies, democracy and decentralization, have come into tension, and how what he