"Leah Lievrouw offers an expert and accessible guide to how people adopt and adapt media in pursuit of social and cultural change. This new edition is an authoritative survey of communication and its discontents, from Dada to Black Lives Matter."Graham Meikle, University of Westminster"This brilliant book is a must-read for those who want to appreciate the evolution of media activism in the age of algorithms. Lievrouw persuasively succeeds in the difficult task of uncovering the genealogy of the present without losing the vision of the future."Stefania Milan, University of Amsterdam
Introduction Activism in the Age of Algorithmic Media1 New Media Activism: Art & Design Influences2 New Media Activism: Social Movement Theory3 A Genre Framework for Alternative and Activist New Media4 Speaking Noise to Power: Culture Jamming5 The Culture of Creative Disobedience: Alternative Computing6 Algorithms and Citizens: Participatory Journalism and OSINT7 "Be Water": Mediated Mobilization8 Defying the Informatics of Domination: Commons KnowledgeConclusion Recovering Knowledge and TrustNotesReferencesIndex
Leah A. Lievrouw is Professor of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.