Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet
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Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet

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The revolution will not be televised. But will it be online instead? When the Internet first took off, we heard a lot about its potential for social change. We heard it would revitalize democracy. We heard it would empower us. We heard we would all be publishers, working together to create a new public sphere.
"Future Active" tests such claims. With fierce intell...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published December 27th 2002 by Routledge
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Amanda Rudd
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I have not finished this book, not because I don't like it, but because I don't currently have the time. I started it as research for an article on how activists, and particularly the Occupy Wall Street protestors use Twitter, Facebook, and other social media. While this book is definitely fascinating, it is not as useful for the particular needs of my research as I thought it would be, so I'm setting it aside for now.

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