Social Media, Politics and the State: Protests, Revolutions, Riots, Crime and Policing in the Age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube (Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 113879824X ISBN 13: 9781138798243

Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by social media scholars who explore the connection of social media with revolutions, uprising, protests, power and counter-power, hacktivism, the state, policing and surveillance. It shows how collective action and state power are related and conflict as two dialectical sides of social media power, and how power and counter-power are distributed in this dialectic. Theoretically focused and empirically rigorous research considers the two-sided contradictory nature of power in relation to social media and politics. Chapters cover social media in the context of phenomena such as contemporary revolutions in Egypt and other countries, populism 2.0, anti-austerity protests, the fascist movement in Greece's crisis, Anonymous and police surveillance.

About this title

About the Author

Daniel Trottier is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Social and Digital Media at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI) at University of Westminster.

Christian Fuchs is Professor of Social Media at the University of Westminster.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113879824X
• ISBN 13: 9781138798243
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Trottier Daniel