ABSTRACT
This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by social media scholars who explore the connection of social media with revolutions, uprising, protests, power and counter-power, hacktivism, the state, policing and surveillance. It shows how collective action and state power are related and conflict as two dialectical sides of social media power, and how power and counter-power are distributed in this dialectic. Theoretically focused and empirically rigorous research considers the two-sided contradictory nature of power in relation to social media and politics. Chapters cover social media in the context of phenomena such as contemporary revolutions in Egypt and other countries, populism 2.0, anti-austerity protests, the fascist movement in Greece's crisis, Anonymous and police surveillance.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section |63 pages
Introductions
chapter |25 pages
Social Networking Sites in Pro-democracy and Anti-austerity Protests
section |42 pages
Global and Civil Counter-Power
chapter |21 pages
Populism 2.0
section |61 pages
Civil Counter-Power Against Austerity
chapter |22 pages
The Rise of Nazism and the Web
chapter |18 pages
More Than an Electronic Soapbox
section |38 pages
Contested and Toppled State Power
chapter |18 pages
Creating Spaces for Dissent
section |40 pages
State Power as Policing and Intelligence