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AbstractThis article explores the contention that social movements are a significant social force transforming societies through their engagement with new media, such as the Internet, Web 2.0, and digital communications, which are seen as capable of facilitating new power structures. Utilizing della Porta and Diani's framework, it considers how new media technologies may be shaping the structure, identity, opportunity, and protest dimensions of social movements. It concludes by suggesting that new media does offer important opportunities for cost‐effective networking, interpretive framing, mobilization, and repertoires of protest action. However, their adoption does not represent the creation of entirely new virtual social movements but rather a new means of providing existing social movement organisations, local activist networks, and street‐level protest with a trans‐national capacity to collaborate, share information, and communicate with a wider audience. Such new media‐enabled social action is both more congruent with a politics of identity but may also increasingly be competing within a media environment saturated by user‐generated content.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on the contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I Artifacts -- 1 The hearth of darkness: living within occult infrastructures -- 2 Mobile media artifacts: genealogies, haptic visualities, and speculative gestures -- 3 Digital embodiment and financial infrastructures -- 4 Ubiquity -- 5 Interfaces and affordances -- 6 Hacking -- 7 (Big) data and algorithms: looking for meaningful patterns -- 8 Archive Fever revisited: algorithmic archons and the ordering of social media -- Part II Practices -- 9 The practice of identity: development, expression, performance, form -- 10 Our digital social life -- 11 Digital literacies in a wireless world -- 12 Family practices and digital technology -- 13 Youth, algorithms, and the problem of political data -- 14 What remains of digital democracy? Contemporary political cleavages and democratic practices -- 15 Journalism's digital publics: researching the "visual citizen" -- 16 News curation, war, and conflict -- 17 Information, technology, and work: proletarianization, precarity, piecework -- 18 Automated surveillance -- Part III Arrangements -- 19 Deep mediatization: media institutions' changing relations to the social -- 20 Fluid hybridity: organizational form and formlessness in the digital age -- 21 All the lonely people? The continuing lament about the loss of community -- 22 Distracted by technologies and captured by the public sphere -- 23 Social movements, communication, and media -- 24 Governance and regulation -- 25 Property and the construction of the information economy: a neo-Polanyian ontology -- 26 Globalization and post-globalization -- 27 Toward a sustainable information society: a global political economy perspective -- Index.

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