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Fuchs, Christian. 2012. Some reflections on Manuel Castells’ book
“Networks of outrage and hope. Social movements in the Internet age“.
tripleC - Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information
Society 10 (2): 775-797.
http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/459
Abstract: This paper provides critical reflections on Manuel Castells’
(2012) book Networks of Outrage and Hope. Social Movements in the
Internet Age that analyses the “nature and perspectives of networked
social movements” (p. 4) and gives special focus to the role of “social
media” in movements that emerged in 2011 in Tunisia, Iceland, Egypt,
Spain and the United States. I situate Castells’ book in an intellectual
discourse that focuses on the political implications of social media and
that has involved Clay Shirky, Malcom Gladwell and Evgeny Morozov. The
article also discusses the role of social theory and empirical research
in Castells’ book, presents as an alternative a theoretical model of the
relationship between social movements and the media, discusses the
implications that some empirical data that focus on social media in the
Egyptian revolution and the Occupy Wall Street movement have for
Castells’ approach, discusses how Castells positions himself towards
capitalism and compares his explanation of the crisis and his political
views to David Harvey’s approach.
Keywords: social movements, social media, Internet, protest, revolution,
occupation, Arab spring, 15-M, indignadas, indignados, Occupy Wall
Street, Manuel Castells, network, Networks of outrage and hope. Social
movements in the Internet age.
Section overview:
1. Introduction
2. Social Media and Politics: A Controversy between Clay Shirky, Malcom
Gladwell and Evgeny Morozov
3. Castells on Social Media in the Context of Protests and Revolutions:
The Dimension of Social Theory
4. Social Theory Recovered: A Model of the Relationship between Social
Movements and the Media
5. Castells on Social Media in the Context of Protests and Revolutions:
The Dimension of Empirical Research
6. Manuel Castells and David Harvey: The Question of Political Struggle
- For or against Capitalism?
7. Conclusion
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Prof. Christian Fuchs
Chair in Media and Communication Studies
Department of Informatics and Media
Uppsala University
Kyrkogrdsgatan 10
Box 513
751 20 Uppsala
Sweden
[email protected]
Tel +46 (0) 18 471 1019
http://fuchs.uti.at
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NetPolitics Blog: http://fuchs.uti.at/blog
Editor of tripleC: http://www.triple-c.se
Chair of ESA Research Network 18-Sociology of Communications and Media
Research
ICTs and Society Network: http://www.icts-and-society.net
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