Hybrid Media Activism: Ecologies, Imaginaries, Algorithms Trer Emiliano
Hybrid Media Activism: Ecologies, Imaginaries, Algorithms Trer Emiliano This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of contemporary digital activism.…
Specifikacia Hybrid Media Activism: Ecologies, Imaginaries, Algorithms Trer Emiliano
Hybrid Media Activism: Ecologies, Imaginaries, Algorithms Trer Emiliano
This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of contemporary digital activism. Drawing on extensive fieldwork on social movements, collectives and political parties in Spain, Italy and Mexico, this book disentangles the hybrid nature of contemporary activism. The author deconstructs the reductionism of the literature on social movements and communication, proposing a new conceptual vocabulary based on practices, ecologies, imaginaries and algorithms to account for the communicative complexity of protest movements.
It shows how activists operate merging the physical and the digital, the human and the non-human, the old and the new, the internal and the external, the corporate and the alternative.The author illustrates the ambivalent character of contemporary digital activism, demonstrating that media imaginaries can be either used