Next Generation Netroots: Realignment and the Rise of the Internet Left - Softcover

Kerbel, Matthew; Bowers, Christopher J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138652482 ISBN 13: 9781138652484

Publisher: Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

From the early demise of Trent Lott at the hands of bloggers to the agonized scream of Howard Dean; from Daily Kos and the blogosphere to the rise of Twitter and Facebook, politics and new media have co-existed and evolved in rapid succession. Here, an academic and practitioner team up to consider how new and old media technologies mix with combustible politics to determine, in real time, the shape of the emerging political order. Our political moment shares with other realigning periods the sense that political parties are failing to address the public interest. In an era defined by the collapse of the political center, extreme income inequality, rapidly changing demography, and new methods of communicating and organizing, a second-generation online progressive movement fueled by email and social media is coming into its own.

In this highly readable text, the authors – one a scholar of Internet politics, the other a leading voice of the first generation netroots – draw on unique data and on-the-ground experience to answer key questions at the core of our tumultuous politics: How has Internet activism changed in form and function? How have the left and right changed with it? How does this affect American political power?

About this title

About the Author

Matthew R. Kerbel is Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at Villanova University.

Christopher J. Bowers is the Senior Campaign Director for Daily Kos and an experienced consultant for a wide range of campaigns and organizations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1138652482
• ISBN 13: 9781138652484
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 170