"In his too-short life, Aaron Swartz reshaped the Internet, questioned our assumptions about intellectual property, and touched all of us in ways that we may not even realize. His tragic suicide in 2013 at the age of twenty-six after being aggressively prosecuted for copyright i…
This book maps complex ethical dilemmas in social justice research practices in media and communication. Contributors critically analyse power dynamics that arise when building equitable research relations with media activists, social movements, and cultural producers, consideri…
4e de couverture : Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples' Global Action (PGA) - including the mobilization against the November 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle - anti-corporate globalization activists have staged direct action protests against …
This book is about online subcultures taking shape in the force field between control and subversion. Combining classic theories of space, power and resistance with current case studies of digital piracy, online activism and remix culture, the book develops a cultural theory of …
"How and why has solidarity changed over time? Why have different strategies, tactics, and strands of international solidarity emerged or re-emerged at particular moments throughout history? And how has the concept of solidarity shaped the history of the US left in particular? I…
"Growing economic inequality, corporate influence in politics, an eroding middle class. Many Americans leave it to politicians and the media to debate these topics in the public sphere. Yet other seemingly ordinary Americans have decided to enter the conversation of wealth in Am…
Ce livre fait le pari d'éclairer les processus d'engagement par une sociologie des collectifs qui les portent. Il s'agit moins de se demander pourquoi les individus militent et par quelles causes ils sont attirés que d'analyser comment les organisations et les collectifs font po…
How do we talk about the environment? Does this communication reveal and construct meaning? Is the environment expressed and foregrounded in the new landscape of digital media? The Environment in the Age of the Internet is an interdisciplinary collection that draws together rese…