ABSTRACT

This volume addresses these key issues through an analysis of important theoretical debates on issues such as digital democracy, cultural politics and transnational communities.
Featuring contributors from both sides of the Atlantic, the book contains a series of case studies on new social movements including campaigns on the environment, gender, animal rights and human rights. It combines cutting edge research with theoretical material and makes an important contribution to this highly topical and rapidly growing area.
This book will be invaluable reading for students in areas including Politics, Communications and IT, Sociology and Cultural Studies.

chapter 1|14 pages

A new politics?

part |2 pages

Part I New media, politics and culture

chapter 2|15 pages

Democracy in the Information Age

The role of the Fourth Estate in cyberspace

chapter 3|20 pages

From media politics to e-protest?

The use of popular culture and new media in parties and social movements

chapter 4|11 pages

Proximity politics

chapter 5|18 pages

The future of public media cultures

Morality, ethics and ambivalence

chapter 6|15 pages

Contested power

Political sociology in the Information Age

chapter 7|19 pages

A moment of moral remaking

The death of Diana, Princess of Wales

part |2 pages

Part II New social movements

chapter 8|12 pages

Social movement networks

Virtual and real

chapter 9|13 pages

Information Technology and new forms of organising?

Translocalism and networks in Friends of the Earth

chapter 10|25 pages

Weaving a Green Web

Environmental protest and computer-mediated communication in Britain

chapter 12|24 pages

Globalisation, citizenship and technology

The Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) meets the Internet