Digital, Political, Radical

Höfundur: Natalie Fenton (Útgáfa: 1)
Digital, Political, Radical

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Digital, Political, Radical is a siren call to the field of media and communications and the study of social and political movements. We must put the politics of transformation at the very heart of our analyses to meet the global challenges of gross inequality and ever-more impoverished democracies. Fenton makes an impassioned plea for re-invigorating critical research on digital media such that it can be explanatory, practical and normative.

She dares us to be politically emboldened. She urges us to seek out an emancipatory politics that aims to deepen our democratic horizons. To ask, how can we do democracy better? What are the conditions required to live together well? Then, what is the role of the media and how can we reclaim media, power and politics for progressive ends? Journeying through a range of protest and political movements, Fenton debunks myths of digital media along the way and points us in the direction of newly emergent politics of the Left.

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Útgefandi
Polity
ISBN
9781509511709
Print ISBN
9780745650876
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
1
Höfundar
Natalie Fenton
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2016-09-26
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
10
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • Dedication
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1: Introduction: Sowing the Seeds of Dissent
  • Critical
  • Political
  • Radical
  • Contextual
  • Chapter Outlines
  • Conclusion: Left Out? Bringing Radical Politics in from The Cold
  • Notes
  • 2: Digital Activism: A New Means of and a New Meaning of Being Political
  • Introduction: Online and Oppositional
  • Increasing the Speed and Expanding the Space of Political Activism
  • Diversity and Horizontality
  • Post-Marxist Theories
  • Connectivity and Participation
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • 3: Digital Media, Radical Politics and Counter-Public Spheres
  • Liberal Democracy Undone
  • Homing in on Habermas: Political Mobilization and Counter-Public Spheres
  • The Limitations of Pluralism and Problems with Liberalism
  • Equating Pluralism with Communicative Freedom
  • Capitalism and Its Contradictions
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 4: Passion and Politics: Radical Politics and Mediated Subjects
  • The Political ‘Subject’
  • Political Affect
  • The Social Media Mix: The Political Is Personal
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 5: Radical Politics and Organizational Form in Theory and in Practice
  • Interactivity, Participation and Autonomy
  • Disorganization or Fragmentation?
  • Autonomy, Anarchism and Counter-Hegemony
  • Networks of Power and Networks of Counter-Power
  • New Politics or Anti-Politics?
  • Conclusion: Organization Is Politics
  • Notes
  • 6: On Being Political and the Politics of Being
  • The Constraints of Being Political: Politics Subordinated to Media Power
  • The Constraints of Being Political: Politics Subordinated to The State Subordinated to Capital
  • The Case of Syriza
  • The Case of Podemos
  • Repoliticizing The Economy
  • Resocializing The Political
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • 7: Conclusion: Putting Politics Back in the Picture?
  • Power
  • Powerlessness
  • Occupy and the Limits of Liberal Democracy
  • Counter-Power
  • Look Left: Rediscovering The Political Commons
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • End User License Agreement