Technology and Resistance
Subtitle: Digital Communications and New Coalitions Around the World (Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.), 59.)
Contributors: Ann De Vaney (Editor); Stephen Gance (Editor); Yan Ma (Editor)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780820437958
Subjects: Mass Communication Media And Politics; Technology And Social Change; Social Science; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Science/Mathematics; Popular Culture - General; Sociology - General; Information society; Information technology; Political aspects; Social aspects; Technology
Description: "What happens when the means of communication, often centralized, become diffused? What happens when coalitions in South Africa, Malawi, China, Russia, Turkey, Burma, El Salvador, and the United States utilize electronic technologies to seek enfranchisement? This book describes such creative uses by emergent democratic movements and other cultural alliances seeking solidarity in these countries.

It investigates the way the strange confluence of technological language and radical social change opens new discursive terrain. Unusual fissures and interstices appear; some auger well for the distribution of political power and the promotion of free speech, while unfortunately some open gaps within old hierarchies implicit in capitalistic discourses of technology."--BOOK JACKET.