From Tahrir Square to Ferguson

Produktbeschreibung

The last several years have seen mass uprisings and dynamic social movements across the globe, from the onset of the Arab Spring in 2011, to the Black Lives Matter movement following Michael Brown¿s death in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. There is no doubt that social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter accelerated and facilitated these uprisings, providing a way for people to organize and express themselves despite government repression. From Tahrir Square to Ferguson: Social Networks as Facilitators of Social Movements attempts to answer the question of whether these movements could have succeeded before the advent of the Internet age. From political protest to regime change, social movements have become increasingly digital. Taking on the current political climate from an international perspective, From Tahrir Square to Ferguson: Social Networks as Facilitators of Social Movements attempts to address the issues of a growing social media audience facing a wide variety of social and political issues. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations - Juliet Dee: Introduction - Part One: Middle East -
Douglas Fraleigh: The Tunisian Revolution: A Social Movement of Courage Assisted
by Social Media - Luciana Garcia de Oliveira/Matheus Cardoso-da-Silva: From
Tahrir Square to Facebook and Vice Versa: The Public Sphere, Cyber-Space and the
Reach of Post-Revolution in Egypt - Ahmed Al-Rawi: Social Media and the 2014
Hostilities in Iraq - Rauf Arif: Social Networks, Social Movements and the
Politico-Cultural Situation of Pakistani Media - Abdelfettah Benchenna & Zineb
Majdouli: Between Cyber-Activism and Mobilization: The February 20 Movement in
Morocco - Christine Ogan/Yesim Kaptan: Laughing with Tear Gas in Our Eyes: Use
of Satirical Humor in the Gezi Park Social Movement in Turkey - Marouf Hasian
Jr./Sean Lawson: The Syrian Rebellion and the "First Social Media" War - Part
Two: North America - Victoria Carty: How to Interpret the Occupy Wall Street
Social Movement in the Context of the Digital Revolution - Ginger M. Loggins/W.
Russell Robinson: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: The American Civil
Rights Movement Goes Online - Jenn Mackay: "We Are More than 131": The Mexico
Student Movement for Free Speech and Political Freedom - Part Three: Europe -
Lorenzo Dalvit/Cosimo Marco Scarcelli: The 5 Star Movement and the Promise of
eDemocracy in Italy - Marc Perelló-Sobrepere: The Catalan Case: Building a New
State from Social Outrage and New Media - Leocadia Díaz Romero: Spain: "The
Outraged" - Susan J. Drucker/Gary Gumpert: France Hits the Boulevards: Je Suis
Charlie Marches #MarcheRepublicaine - André Haller: A Train Station Divides a
Country: The Use of Social Media by Activists during the "Stuttgart 21"
Controversy in Germany - Vassilis Vamvakas/Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou: The Online
Element in Intermedia Agenda-Setting: The Case of the Greek Indignant Citizens
Movement - Bidu Bhusan Dash/K. M. Baharul Islam: The Delhi Rape Case: The Role
of Social Media in Protests and Policy Change - Jun Liu: Using Cell Phones to
Organize Political Protests in China - Melanie Radue: Networked Flows of
Information in Myanmar's Pro-Democracy Movement - Leslie J. Reynard: Activism in
the Public Cyber-Sphere:Shahbag Square, Bangladesh. 

Autoreninfo

Juliet Dee is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Delaware. She received her Bachelor's degree from Princeton University, her Master's degree from Northwestern University, and her doctorate from Temple University, and is a co-author of Mass Communication Law in a Nutshell (2014).