Asian Intelligence, 821: Internet and Social Networking as Forces for Political Change (2011)
Filed under report | Tags: · asia, facebook, internet, media activism, politics, twitter, web 2.0
“Report on use of social media for political change in selected Asian countries: Vietnam, China, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Egypt.”
Asian Intelligence: An Independent Fortnightly Report on Asian Business and Politics
Publisher Political & Economic Risk Consultancy Ltd, Hong Kong, 23 February 2011
Asian Intelligence Report, No. 821
16 pages
PDF (updated on 2018-3-8)
Comment (0)Henry Jenkins, David Thorburn (eds.): Democracy and New Media (2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · cyberspace, democracy, digital divid, hypertext, internet, mass media, new media, politics, technology, virtual communities
Digital technology is changing our politics. The World Wide Web is already a powerful influence on the public’s access to government documents, the tactics and content of political campaigns, the behavior of voters, the efforts of activists to circulate their messages, and the ways in which topics enter the public discourse. The essays collected here capture the richness of current discourse about democracy and cyberspace. Some contributors offer front-line perspectives on the impact of emerging technologies on politics, journalism, and civic experience. What happens, for example, when we increase access to information or expand the arena of free speech? Other contributors place our shifting understanding of citizenship in historical context, suggesting that notions of cyber-democracy and online community must grow out of older models of civic life. Still others consider the global flow of information and test our American conceptions of cyber-democracy against developments in other parts of the world. How, for example, do new media operate in Castro’s Cuba, in post-apartheid South Africa, and in the context of multicultural debates on the Pacific Rim? For some contributors, the new technologies endanger our political culture; for others, they promise civic renewal.
Publisher MIT Press, 2003
Media in Transition series
ISBN: 0262101017, 9780262101011
397 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-7-15)
Comment (0)Dan Hancox (ed.): Fight Back! A Reader on the Winter of Protest (2011)
Filed under book | Tags: · activism, democracy, education, internet, politics, protest, resistance, social movements, united kingdom
The first book to be produced by an ‘editorial kettle’ – all seven of its editors are under 30 and have been kettled by the police during 2010 winter protests in United Kingdom. Fight Back! features 350 pages of reports, analysis, images, reflections and overviews on the UK’s winter of protests by 43 authors. It asks: Is this the start of a successful movement against fees and cuts? From a 15-year-old UK Uncut flash-mob activist to a rebel Lib Dem peer – Fight Back! captures both the spirit and arguments of Britain’s winter revolt, bringing together the best reportage and analysis of an extraordinary political moment.
Editorial Kettle: Guy Aitchison, Siraj Datoo, Cailean Gallagher, Laurie Penny, Aaron Peters and Paul Sagar
Published by openDemocracy via OurKingdom, London, February/March 2011
ISBN 978 0 955677 502
340 pages
Licensed under Creative Commons
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