Looks interesting, but not enough to pay $85 (or $66 with the NA discount, but maybe plus shipping!) for.. Maybe you need to find a more "disruptive" publisher!
Best Regards | Cordiales Saludos | Grato, Andrés L. Pacheco Sanfuentes <[email protected]> +1 (817) 271-9619 On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 2:38 AM, stefi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of > list guidelines will get you moderated: > https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, > change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at > [email protected]. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
