Beyond the Protest Square
Digital Media and Augmented Dissent- Authors:
- Publisher:
- 2021
Summary
This book examines how citizens use digital social media to engage in public discontent and offers a critical examination of the hybrid reality of protest where bodies, spaces and technologies resonate. It argues that the augmented reality of protest goes beyond the bodies, the tents, and the cobblestones in the protest square, incorporating live streams, different time zones, encrypted conversations, and simultaneous translation of protest updates into different languages. Based on more than 60 interviews with protest participants and ethnographic analysis of online content in Ukraine and Russia, it examines how citizens in countries with limited media freedom and corrupt authorities perceive the affordances of digital media for protest and how these enable or limit protest action.
The book provides a nuanced contribution to debates about the role of digital media in contentious politics and protest events, both in Eastern Europe and beyond.
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Bibliographic data
- Copyright year
- 2021
- ISBN-Print
- 978-1-78660-596-2
- ISBN-Online
- 978-1-78660-597-9
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 200
- Product type
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Table of contents
- Contents No access
- List of Figures No access
- List of Tables No access
- Acknowledgments No access
- Chapter 1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
- Chapter 2 Digital Media and Society in Ukraine and Russia No access Pages 15 - 28
- Chapter 3 Euromaidan Protesters No access Pages 29 - 48
- Chapter 4 Space, Distance, and Digital Media No access Pages 49 - 68
- Chapter 5 Socially Mediated Visibility and Protest Witnessing No access Pages 69 - 88
- Chapter 6 Protest Organizing and Networked Communities No access Pages 89 - 116
- Chapter 7 Information Sharing and Protest Frames No access Pages 117 - 140
- Chapter 8 Russia No access Pages 141 - 156
- Chapter 9 Conclusion No access Pages 157 - 170
- Notes No access Pages 171 - 172
- References No access Pages 173 - 186
- Index No access Pages 187 - 198
- About the Author No access Pages 199 - 200





