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Beyond the Internet

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Unplugging the Protest Movement Wave

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Beyond the Internet book

Unplugging the Protest Movement Wave
Edited ByRita Figueiras, Paula do Espírito Santo
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 21 December 2015
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315690124
Pages 170
eBook ISBN 9781315690124
Subjects Communication Studies, Humanities, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Figueiras, R., & do Espírito Santo, P. (Eds.). (2015). Beyond the Internet: Unplugging the Protest Movement Wave (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315690124

ABSTRACT

The western economic and financial crisis began with the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 and led the European Union countries into recession. After this, governments started to implement austerity measures, such as cuts in public spending, including public subsidies and jobs, and rising prices. In this context, Europe started to experience a wave of protest movements. Individuals started to use the manifold interactive digital media environment to both fight against the austerity measures and find alternative ways of claiming their democratic rights. Inspired by the 2011 Arab Spring and the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York (USA), the Occupy LSX encampment in Central London (UK), The Outraged (Los Indignados)/ 15M encampment in Central Madrid (Spain), the Syntagma Square’s Outraged movement in Athens (Greece) and the March 12th Movement in Lisbon (Portugal), although short-lived, epitomize an emerging alternative politics and participation via the media. This wave has promoted a debate on how the realm of politics is changing, as citizens broaden their ideas of what political issues and participation mean.

Beyond the Internet examines the technological dimension of the recent wave of protest movements in the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Ireland. Offering an opportunity to achieve a better understanding of the dynamics between society, politics and technology, this volume questions the essentialist attributes of the Internet that fuel the techno-centric discourse. The contributors illustrate how all these protest movements were active in the social media and garnered high levels of media attention and public visibility, in spite of their failure to achieve their political goals. As intra-elite dissent was pivotal in understanding the Arab uprisings, the coalition of national ruling elites with European institutions in terms of austerity strategy is essential in understanding the limits of media/technology power and, therefore, the dissociation between communication and representative power.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

ByRITA FIGUEIRAS AND PAULA DO ESPÍRITO SANTO

chapter 1|24 pages

Civic Cosmopolitanism and Political Communication: Media, Activism, and Agency

ByPETER DAHLGREN

chapter 2|22 pages

Protest Camps as Media Stages: A Case Study of Activist Media Practices across Three British Social Movements

ByANNA FEIGENBAUM, PATRICK MCCURDY

chapter 3|23 pages

Communication Strategies and New Political Movements in Spain

ByÓSCAR G. LUENGO, JAVIER G. MARÍN

chapter 4|23 pages

From the Streets and the Occupied Squares to the Central Political Field: The Narratives of the Anti-Austerity Camp in Greece

ByNIKOS SOTIRAKOPOULOS, OLGA NTALAKA

chapter 5|24 pages

Social Media and Political Participation: The Portuguese Indignados Case

ByJOÃO CARLOS CORREIA

chapter 6|18 pages

Unmasking the “Quiet Man”: Exploring Ireland’s Quiescent Response to Economic Crisis and Austerity

ByGEMMA CARNEY, KATY HAYWARD
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