plashkes's Bennett [3 articles]

Abstract

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Abstract

Many observers doubt the capacity of digital media to change the political game. The rise of a transnational activism that is aimed beyond states and directly at corporations, trade and development regimes offers a fruitful area for understanding how communication practices can help create a new politics. The Internet is implicated in the new global activism far beyond merely reducing the costs of communication, or transcending the geographical and temporal barriers associated with other communication media. Various uses of the Internet ...

Note (first note only)

“A movement that does not make it into the media is non-existent.” (quoted in Rucht, forthcoming).

George Monbiot proclaimed in the Guardian that "The people's movements being deployed against corporate power are perhaps the biggest, most widespread popular risings ever seen" (Redden, 2001, n.p.).

In short, whether we go shopping or make revolution on the Internet – and how the shopping trip or the revolution compares to its less virtual counterparts – are more the results of the human contexts in which the