New media and public activism
Author： Roberts John Michael (Author)
Publisher： Policy Press
Publication year： 2014
E-ISBN: 9781447308232
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781447308218
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9781447308225
Subject： C91 Sociology
Keyword： Welfare & benefit systems
Language： ENG
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Description
The Arab Spring, chat forums, political leaders tweeting, online petitions, and protestors in the Occupy Movement - new media public spheres have without doubt radically altered social and political activism in society. But to what extent is this new activist public sphere stifled by the neoliberal economy and workfare state? Have we in fact become transformed into subjects of online consumption and orderly surveillance, rather than committed social and political campaigners? In this highly topical book, John Michael Roberts employs a political economy perspective to explore the relationship between financial neoliberal capitalism and digital publics. He assesses the extent to which they provide new forms of radical protest in civil society and offers an indispensable guide to understanding the relationship between the state, new media activism and neoliberal practices.