Description:
The emergence of new communication technologies (such as the Internet and social media networking sites and platforms) has strongly affected social movement activism. In this compelling and timely book, Victoria Carty examines these movements and their uses of digital technologies within the context of social movement theory and history.
Review Quotes: "Victoria Carty's book offers us a fresh look to burning questions on political change, social movements and the Internet in a globalized world. The recent explosion of social media as a tool to help topple dictators and oppressive regimes in the 21st century has drastically changed how human rights advocates and social activists mobilize their resources for collective action and operate on the ground. Carty captures these tectonic shifts in societies across the globe, introducing an innovative theoretical framework illustrated by contemporary case studies. She provides students and scholars of social movements with a unique, in-depth, and thought-provoking analysis of current changes in contentious politics around the world."
--Arnaud Kurze, Montclair State University
""Social Movements and New Technology" is a very concise and accessible overview of the cutting-edge use of digital technology by the most newsworthy social movements to have emerged around the globe in recent years."
--Jennifer Johnson, Kenyon College
"A powerful examination of social movement activism and how social movements have been affected, for better or for worse, by digital technologies." --"Midwest Book Review"