Dear Liberationtech list
**Apologies for cross-posting**
I am happy to announce the release of my book Social Movements and Their
Technologies. Wiring Social Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).
The book might be of interest to those of you working on internet activism and
dissent networking, social movement communication, communication for
development. It is based on an unprecedented body of qualitative data built
over the years by interviewing radical techies and hacktivists typically very
difficult to reach. It offers also a historical grounding to the current
efforts by activists around the world to organize autonomously in the field of
communication infrastructure.
Blurb
Social Movements and Their Technologies. Wiring Social Change explores the
interplay between social movements and their "liberated technologies". It
analyzes the rise of low-power radio stations and radical internet projects
("emancipatory communication practices") as a political subject, focusing on
the sociological and cultural processes at play. It provides an overview of the
relationship between social movements and technology and investigates what is
behind the communication infrastructure that made possible the main protest
events of the past 15 years. In doing so, Stefania Milan illustrates how
contemporary social movements organize in order to create autonomous
alternatives to communication systems and network and how they contribute to
change the way people communicate in daily life, as well as try to change
communication policy from the grassroots.
You can find out more on http://stefaniamilan.net/book (including the table of
contents and the proofs of chapter 1).
If you buy by the end of January, there is a discount of 20% in you are based
in the United States, and 50% for everyone else (for books bought by
individuals and only through www.palgrave.com). You can find flyers and
discount codes on http://stefaniamilan.net/book
Hope you like it!
Stefania
Stefania Milan, PhD
Data J Lab / Citizen Lab
stefaniamilan.net @annliffey--
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