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  • The Immigration Crisis in Europe and the U.S.-Mexico Border in the New Era of Heightened Nativism

    by Victoria Carty ...
    In The Immigration Crisis in Europe and the U.S.-Mexico Border in the New Era of Heightened Nativism, Victoria Cartycompares the immigration crises in the European Union and the United States. Beginning in 2014, the Arab Spring upheavals and failed states in Northern Africa and the Middle East overwhelmed many European countries which the European Union system was not prepared for. In the Americas ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Social Movements and New Technology

    by Victoria Carty ...
    The emergence of new communication technologies (such as the Internet and social media networking sites and platforms) has strongly affected social movement activism. In this compelling and timely book, Victoria Carty examines these movements and their uses of digital technologies within the context of social movement theory and history.With an accessible and unique mix of theory and real-world ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Wired and Mobilizing

    Social Movements, New Technology, and Electoral Politics

    by Victoria Carty ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    This book highlights how online networking offers potential for new forms of activist mobilizing, repertoires, participatory democracy, direct action, fundraising, and civic engagement. It calls for a re-conceptualization of some of the main tenets of contentious and electoral politics, which were originally constructed to describe and analyze face-to-face forms of mobilization, in order to more ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Scholars and Southern Californian Immigrants in Dialogue

    New Conversations in Public Sociology

    by Harold D. Baker, Ivy A. M. Cargile, Chris Haynes, Patricia Huerta Medina, Karina Macias, Alexandra Noble, Adrian D. Pantoja, Jennifer L. Merolla, Rev. Edward Poettgen, Rev. Alexandra Salvatierra, Caitlin Patler ...
    Immigration has been a contested issue for decades. This distinctive volume of essays on Southern Californian immigration is inspired by Michael Burawoy’s call for academic consideration to be more open and accessible to people in what he calls “public sociology.” The essays in Scholars and Southern Californian Immigrants in Dialogue: New Conversations in Public Sociology bridge the gap between ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

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  • Twitter and Tear Gas

    The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

    by Zeynep Tufekci ...
    A firsthand account and incisive analysis of modern protest, revealing internet-fueled social movements’ greatest strengths and frequent challengesTo understand a thwarted Turkish coup, an anti–Wall Street encampment, and a packed Tahrir Square, we must first comprehend the power and the weaknesses of using new technologies to mobilize large numbers of people. An incisive observer, writer, and ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Disruptive Power

    The Crisis of the State in the Digital Age

    by Taylor Owen ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Anonymous. WikiLeaks. The Syrian Electronic Army. Edward Snowden. Bitcoin. The Arab Spring. Digital communication technologies have thrust the calculus of global political power into a period of unprecedented complexity. In every aspect of international affairs, digitally enabled actors are changing the way the world works and disrupting the institutions that once held a monopoly on power. No area ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • By Any Media Necessary

    The New Youth Activism

    by Henry Jenkins, Sangita Shresthova, Liana Gamber-Thompson, Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Arely Zimmerman ...
    Series Book 3 - Connected Youth and Digital Futures
    The participatory politics and civic engagement of youth in the digital ageThere is a widespread perception that the foundations of American democracy are dysfunctional, public trust in core institutions is eroding, and little is likely to emerge from traditional politics that will shift those conditions. Youth are often seen as emblematic of this crisis—frequently represented as uninterested in ... Read more

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  • The Future of 24-Hour News

    New Directions, New Challenges

    Edited by Stephen Cushion, Richard Sambrook ...
    Over the last 30 years 24-hour television news channels have reshaped the practice and culture of journalism. But the arrival of new content and social media platforms over recent years has challenged their power and authority, with fast-changing technologies accelerating the speed of news delivery and reshaping audience behaviour. Following on from The Rise of 24-Hour News Television: Global ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Liberation Technology

    Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy

    Edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner ...
    Series series A Journal of Democracy Book
    The revolutions sweeping the Middle East provide dramatic evidence of the role that technology plays in mobilizing citizen protest and upending seemingly invulnerable authoritarian regimes. A grainy cell phone video of a Tunisian street vendor’s self-immolation helped spark the massive protests that toppled longtime ruler Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, and Egypt’s “Facebook revolution” forced the ruling ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Democracy's Fourth Wave?

    Digital Media and the Arab Spring

    by Philip N. Howard, Muzammil M. Hussain ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Digital Politics
    Did digital media really "cause" the Arab Spring, or is it an important factor of the story behind what might become democracy's fourth wave? An unlikely network of citizens used digital media to start a cascade of social protest that ultimately toppled four of the world's most entrenched dictators. Howard and Hussain find that the complex causal recipe includes several economic, political and ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Citizen Journalism

    Global Perspectives- Volume 2

    Edited by Stuart Allan, Einar Thorsen ...
    Series Book 14 - Global Crises and the Media
    The second volume of Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives seeks to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, namely by: Offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2008, including the use of social media in crisis reporting; Providing a new set of case studies highlighting important instances of citizen reporting of crisis events in a complementary range ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Middle Power in the Middle East

    Canada’s Foreign and Defence Policies in a Changing Region

    Edited by Thomas Juneau, Bessma Momani ...
    The Middle East has not, historically, been a first-order priority for Canadian foreign and defence policy. Most major Canadian decisions on the Middle East have come about through ad hoc decision-making rather than strategic necessity. Balancing international obligations with domestic goals, Canadian relations with this region try to find a balance between meeting alliance obligations and keeping ... Read more

    $25.99 USD