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Civic Participation in Contentious Politics: The Digital Foreshadowing of Protest

Civic Participation in Contentious Politics: The Digital Foreshadowing of Protest

Hardcover

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 113750868X
ISBN13: 9781137508683
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jun 28 2016
Pages: 234
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

The book examines the highly dynamic communication ecology of recent contentious politics and its expanding digital footprint. First, it looks at the attainment of democratic citizenship through practice as street protests attract substantial numbers of followers who narrate their involvement or reflect on the claims and the implications of collective action on social media. Secondly, it considers the ramifications for contemporary democracy arising from the large-scale uptake of social media by variegated protest networks, which no longer pivot on the coordination capacity of bureaucratic movement organizations. The book ties these aspects together to propose that contentious politics can be a fertile ground for progressive civic participation.

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