Title: OccupyMedia! : the occupy movement and social media in crisis capitalism /
Authors: Fuchs, Christian, 1976-
Year: 2014
Subjects: Social media Economic aspects; Social media Political aspects.; Occupy movement.
Abstract: The Occupy movement has emerged in a historical crisis of global capitalism. It struggles for the reappropriation of the commodified commons. Communications are part of the commons of society. Yet contemporary social media are ridden by an antagonism between private corporate control (YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) and self-managed, commons-based activist media. In this work, Christian Fuchs analyses the contradictory dialectic of social media in the Occupy movement. -from back cover
Contents: Introduction: The Crisis of Capitalism -- Protests in Crisis Capitalism -- Occupy and Digital Media -- Research Method: The OccuyMedia! Survey -- Results of the OccupyMedia! Survey. Analysis of the Respondents' Demographic Data ; Defining the Occupy Movement ; Occupy and Social Media ; Communicating Activism ; Corporate and Alternative Social Media -- Interpreting the Data: Social Movement Media in Crisis Capitalism. Defining the Occupy Movement ; Occupy and Social Media ; Communicating Activism ; Corporate and Alternative Social Media -- Alternatives -- Conclusion: Activism and the Media in a World of Antagonisms.