Social Media, Politics and the State: Protests, Revolutions, Riots, Crime and Policing in the Age of Facebook, Twitter and Youtube

ISBN-13: 9780415749091 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 264 str.

Daniel Trottier; Christian Fuchs

Opis

This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by social media scholars who explore the connection of social media with revolutions, uprising, protests, power and counter-power, hacktivism, the state, policing and surveillance. It shows how collective action and state power are related and conflict as two dialectical sides of social media power, and how power and counter-power are distributed in this dialectic. Theoretically focused and empirically rigorous research considers the two-sided contradictory nature of power in relation to social media and politics. Chapters cover social media in the context of phenomena such as contemporary revolutions in Egypt and other countries, populism 2.0, anti-austerity protests, the fascist movement in Greece's crisis, Anonymous and police surveillance.

Spis treści

Section One: Introductions  1. Theorising Social Media, Politics and the State: An Introduction  Daniel Trottier and Christian Fuchs  2. Social Networking Sites in Pro-democracy and Anti-austerity Protests: Some Thoughts from a Social Movement Perspective  Donatella della Porta and Alice Mattoni  Section Two: Global and Civil Counter-Power  3. Populism 2.0: Social Media Activism, the Generic Internet User and Plebiscitary Digital Democracy  Paolo Gerbaudo  4. Anonymous: Hacktivism and Contemporary Politics  Christian Fuchs  Section Three: Civil Counter-Power Against Austerity  5. Web 2.0 Nazi Propaganda: Golden Dawn’s Affect, Spectacle and Identity Constructions in Social Media  Panos Kompatsiaris and Yiannis Mylonas  6. More Than an Electronic Soapbox: Activist Web Presence as a Collective Action Frame, Newspaper Source and Police Surveillance Tool During the London G20 Protests in 2009  Jonathan Cable  7. Assemblages: Live Streaming Dissent in the 'Quebec Spring'  Elise Danielle Thorburn  Section Four: Contested and Toppled State Power  8. Creating Spaces for Dissent: The Role of Social Media in the 2011 Egyptian Revolution  Sara Salem  9. Social Media Activism and State Censorship  Thomas Poell  Section Five: State Power as Policing and Intelligence  10. Vigilantism and Power Users: Police and User-Led Investigations on Social Media  Daniel Trottier  11. Police 'Image Work' in an Era of Social Media: YouTube and the 2007 Montebello Summit Protest  Christopher J. Schneider

O autorze

Daniel Trottier is a postdoctoral fellow in social and digital media at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) at the University of Westminster. Christian Fuchs is a professor of social media at the University of Westminster.