Lexington Books
Pages: 272
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Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-4985-2930-3 • Hardback • December 2015 • $129.00 • (£99.00)
978-1-4985-2932-7 • Paperback • July 2017 • $57.99 • (£45.00)
978-1-4985-2931-0 • eBook • December 2015 • $55.00 • (£42.00)
Barış Çoban is associate professor in the Communication Sciences Department at Doğuş University.
Chapter 1: Commune, the Web and the Anarchist Thought of Mikhail Bakunin
Chiara Livia Bernardi
Chapter 2: New Media and Empowerment in the Indignados’ Movement: “If you want that no one else decides for you, so that no one else speaks for you”
Tommaso Gravante, Alice Poma
Chapter 3: Occupy-Nigeria Movement, Organised Labour Unions and Oil-Subsidy Struggle: An Analysis of Processes in -Media(ted) “Revolution” and its Demise
Kudus Oluwatoyin Adebayo
Chapter 4: Internet in Morocco
Abderrahim Chalfaouat
Chapter 5: Occupy Movements, Alternative New Media and Utopia: The Gezi Resistance and Activist Citizen Journalism
Barış Çoban
Chapter 6: Social Media and Social Change: The 2011 Campaign for Stopping the Massacre of the Danube Delta Wild Horses
Dana Florentina Nicolae
Chapter 7: Active or Passive Local Public Sphere – The Influence of ICT over Contemporary Local Democracy
Ilona Biernacka-Ligieza
Chapter 8: Youth Vote and Web 2.0 Political Engagement: Can Facebook Increase the Propensity of Young Citizen to Vote?
Alan Steinberg
Chapter 9: The Ostensible Revolution of Blogs
Simona Stano
Chapter 10: The Transformation of Leisure in The Digital Age
Ana Vinals Blanco
Chapter 11: Virtual Voyeurism and Capitalization of Individuality in Facebook
Shahriar Kabir
Chapter 12: Are Google's Executives Liable for Uploaded Videos? Italian Case
Anna Rita Popoli
Chapter 13: Social Media in Education: Main Sources for Inclusion and Collaborative Learning
Magda Pischetola
Chapter 14: Social Media: Transformation of Education
Carolina Duek and Gastón Tourn
This edited volume provides an eclectic, international perspective on the role that social media platforms have played in social revolutions around the world. Although the topic is not new in popular or scholarly discourse, the book brings together a diverse set of authors—representing several demographics and nations—and references events not often included in Western-focused conversations on social media (for example, the 2013 Gezi resistance in Turkey and the massacre, starting in 2010, of wild horses in the Danube delta region of Romania). The volume includes both analytical and critical essays along with a few empirical reports.... [I]n an increasingly crowded marketplace of social media theory and research books, this volume provides needed fresh examples of social media revolutions in the world. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above.
— Choice Reviews
This is a very comprehensive work on social media and the potential roles of social media not only in democratic societies but also in societies which "resist" for democratization.
— Ülkü Doğanay, Ankara University
This broad and engaging volume offers diverse entry points onto the dynamic landscape of the contemporary social media revolution.
— Todd Wolfson, Rutgers University