Tweets and the Streets

Tweets and the Streets analyses the culture of the new protest movements of the 21st century. From the Arab Spring to the 'indignados' protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest. Ger...

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Hovedforfatter: Gerbaudo, Paolo
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Udgivet: Pluto Press 2021
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description Tweets and the Streets analyses the culture of the new protest movements of the 21st century. From the Arab Spring to the 'indignados' protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest. Gerbaudo argues that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a 'cyberspace' detached from physical reality. Instead, social media is used as part of a project of re-appropriation of public space, which involves the assembling of different groups around 'occupied' places such as Cairo’s Tahrir Square or New York’s Zuccotti Park. An exciting and invigorating journey through the new politics of dissent, Tweets and the Streets points both to the creative possibilities and to the risks of political evanescence which new media brings to the contemporary protest experience.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-347132025-07-31T06:25:01Z Tweets and the Streets Gerbaudo, Paolo Political Science Social Media Activism Twitter Facebook Arab Spring Occupy Indignados public space Tahrir Square Zuccotti Park Horizontalism Social Movements Media Studies Spain thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCT Media studies Tweets and the Streets analyses the culture of the new protest movements of the 21st century. From the Arab Spring to the 'indignados' protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest. Gerbaudo argues that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a 'cyberspace' detached from physical reality. Instead, social media is used as part of a project of re-appropriation of public space, which involves the assembling of different groups around 'occupied' places such as Cairo’s Tahrir Square or New York’s Zuccotti Park. An exciting and invigorating journey through the new politics of dissent, Tweets and the Streets points both to the creative possibilities and to the risks of political evanescence which new media brings to the contemporary protest experience. 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2018-01-24 23:55 2017-12-01 23:55:55 2020-03-17 03:00:32 2020-04-01T13:12:43Z 2012-10-20 book 642730 OCN: 818317949 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30772 9781849648004;9781849648011 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/34713 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30772/1/642730.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30772/1/642730.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30772/1/642730.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30772/1/642730.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30772/1/642730.pdf Pluto Press cdf55516-7e48-4edb-898e-73aa7305a12c Knowledge Unlatched b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9781849648004;9781849648011 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection 100871 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection open access
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Social Media
Activism
Twitter
Facebook
Arab Spring
Occupy
Indignados
public space
Tahrir Square
Zuccotti Park
Horizontalism
Social Movements
Media Studies
Spain
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Gerbaudo, Paolo
Tweets and the Streets
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Social Media
Activism
Twitter
Facebook
Arab Spring
Occupy
Indignados
public space
Tahrir Square
Zuccotti Park
Horizontalism
Social Movements
Media Studies
Spain
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Social Media
Activism
Twitter
Facebook
Arab Spring
Occupy
Indignados
public space
Tahrir Square
Zuccotti Park
Horizontalism
Social Movements
Media Studies
Spain
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