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"Social Media ermöglichen innovative Formen von medialen Techniken und sozialen Praktiken, die in bestehende Machtbeziehungen eingreifen können. Machtbeziehungen sind dem Foucaultschen Gouvernementalitätskonzept zufolge nicht hierarchisch oder einseitig aufgebaut, sondern entwickeln sich vielmehr dynamisch und netzwerkartig zwischen den beteiligten Akteur innen. Als Akteur innen können Menschen, Dinge, Natur oder beispielsweise auch verschiedene Denk- und Verhaltensmuster auftreten. Regierungsformen als Techniken der Selbst- oder Fremdregierung üben dabei eine Scharnierfunktion aus und wirken intermediär zwischen Macht- und Herrschaftsbeziehungen. Nachrichten und Statusinformationen via Text; Ton oder Bild vermitteln über das Social Web Wissen, das eine zentrale Rolle bei der Etablierung von Machtbeziehungen spielt und so neue Freiräume schaffen kann. Freiräume können dabei Möglichkeitsfelder für Partizipation und Gegenöffentlichkeiten (Wimmer 2008: 210) eröffnen." (Autorenreferat)

Introduces and defines the concept of social power and examines how it works in international politics. Including perspectives from the EU, the US, Middle East and China, this title features a range of case studies on culture and pop culture, media, public diplomacy and branding.

"Social and Political Power" published on by Oxford University Press.

There are two rival conceptions of power in modern sociopolitical thought. According to one, all social power reduces to power-over-others. According to another, the core notion is power-to-effect-outcomes, to which even power-over reduces. This article defends seven theses. First, agential social power consists in a relation between agent and outcomes (power-to). Second, not all social power reduces to power-over and, third, the contrary view stems from conflating power-over with a distinct notion: power-despite-resistance. Fourth, the widespread assumption that social power presupposes the capacity to overcome resistance is false: social power includes the capacity to effect outcomes with others' assistance. Fifth, power-with can be exercised via joint intentional action, strategic coordination and non-strategic coordination. Sixth, agential social power is best analysed as a capacity to effect outcomes, with the assistance of others, despite the resistance of yet others. Seventh, power-over and power-with are not mutually exclusive: each can ground the other.

To be of use the concept of citizenship must be taken out of its liberal history and retl?ought. The nationalistic context in which it has evolved is one associated ¡.vith a set ofinclusionary artd exclusionary practices based on a variety of Janns of sodal power. Citizenship has not been realised for excluded groups either through the false collectivism of social democratic welfare, or through the consumerist 'detnocracy'of the market. The state/market dichotomy is ill fact a false one. Neither exist as autonomous spheres but exist only as organisational principles with.ill the totality of social relations. These social relations must be situated in the context of underlying power based not only on property but on 'race'and gender as well. These pmver relations structure the spaces of the market and the state and thus limit the ectent to which either ean fic~f~f the ideal of citizenship. It is not, then, simply> to a set of legal reforms based on universalistic concept of rights that we should look in order to promote active citizenship, but to a 'dynamic' concept of need.

As economic stagnation freezes the globe; capitalism is increasingly questioned; war, revolution and political instability unsettles the Middle East; and President Obama's campaign for the Presidency looms, Volume 23 of Political Power and Social Theory reflects on these and related issues and whether the concept of "capitalism" should be problemat.

Technology is an increasingly important dimension of social life. This title discusses the impact of technology and science on our lives, exploring how power is demonstrated and reinforced by technological innovation