[liberationtech] Liberated Technologies: Social Movements & Their Technologies

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From: Stefania Milan <stefania.milan at utoronto.ca>

*Apologies for cross-posting. Please help spread the word*

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 in particular on 
internet activism, and/or social movement communication. 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 an historical grounding to the current efforts by social 
movement activists around the world to organize autonomously.

Abstract.
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 considerable discount, as 
follows (for books bought by individuals and only through www.palgrave.com):
- 20% if you are based in North America (code XP356ED)
- 50% if you are based in Europe, South and Central America, Africa, Asia, 
Australia... basically everyone else (code WSMATT2013a)
The instructions can be found on http://stefaniamilan.net/book

Hope you'll like it!
Stefania

Stefania Milan, PhD
Data J Lab / Citizen Lab
stefaniamilan.net @annliffey
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