Insurgency Online: Web Activism and Global Conflict
Michael York Dartnell
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hardcover. Insurgency Online shows that online activism is a ripe, new territory for non-governmental actors to raise awareness and develop support around the world. Series: Digital Futures. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JPW; PDR; UDB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 420.
In Insurgency Online, Michael Dartnell focuses on a new form of conflict made possible by global communications. The Internet, Dartnell argues, is affecting extensive changes to the way politics are carried out, by inserting a range of non-state actors onto the global political stage. He demonstrates that Web activism raises issues about the organization of societies and the distribution of power and contends that the development of online activism has far-reaching social and political implications, with parallels to the influence of the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, and the radio.
Dartnell concentrates on Web activists who use the Net ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Digital Futures
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802087478
SKU
V9780802087478
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About Michael York Dartnell
Michael Y. Dartnell is an associate professor in the Department of History and Politics at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John.
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