Democracy bytes
Subtitle: new media, new politics and generational change
By: Judith Bessant
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9781137308252
Subjects: Digital media; Political aspects; Information technology; Information society; Political participation; Technological innovations; Democracy; Case studies; COMPUTERS / Digital Media / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Description: "This study is about new media, young people, the crisis of democracy and political renewal. It addresses a mixture of traditional and new questions: What is the political? How do we understand politics in a 'network age'? Can we talk sensibly about the concept of generation and generational change? Does democracy have a future? This book presents an optimistic assessment of how digital media supports new and distinctive forms of politics. Four case studies are offered: one of performance art and protest in Russia, another investigates new media campaigns to defend the rights to freedom of speech and copyright in America, one enquires into indigenous art and cartoons as politics in outback Australia and the last explores new forms of student action in schools and the university"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. Politics In the Age of the Digital; title: 3. How The Light Gets In: Change and Continuity; title: 4. Change and Generation; title: 5. Coming of Age in a Digital Neo-liberal World: Generation and Politics; title: 6. A Heuristic or Guiding Framework; title: PART II: CASE STUDIES: IDENTIFYING POLITICAL CHANGE AND GENERATIONS; title: 7. Democratic Renewal, Pussy Riot and Flash Gigs in the Kremlin; title: 8. The Graduate's Future and Neoliberal Education: New Generation Politics on the Campus; title: 9. The Stop Online Piracy Act Case; title: 10. The Digital, Indigenous Art and Politics; title: 11. Conclusion.