Studies adopting the media ecology metaphor to investigate social movements form a
promising strand of literature that has emerged in the last years to overcome the …

What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice?“Design justice” is an
approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims expilcitly to …

By foregrounding the ways that human existence is bound together with the lives of other
entities, contemporary cultural theorists have sought to move beyond an anthropocentric …

This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of
contemporary digital activism. The author deconstructs the reductionism of the literature on …

Inspired by a call to Occupy Wall Street circulated by the Canadian magazine Adbusters, the
Occupy movement began on 17 September 2011 when activists occupied Zuccotti Park in …

This review examines studies of the affordances of digital technologies that produce
virtuality. What we can call a “technological turn” in the literature considers technology a first …

The widespread collection and use of data has been the subject of much public and
scholarly interest in recent years. Data justice has emerged as a significant framework for …

Now in paperback for the first time, Social Movements and their Technologies explores the
interplay between social movements and their'liberated technologies'. It analyzes the rise of …

Based on 17 in-depth interviews with people involved in the Occupy Wall Street (OWS)
movement, we present a typology of how Twitter is used in the service of protest that draws …

From Tahrir Square to Occupy, from the Red Shirts in Thailand to the Teachers in Oaxaca,
protest camps are a highly visible feature of social movements' activism across the world …