Information Politics, Protests, and Human Rights in the Digital Age

Herausgeber: Monshipouri, Mahmood

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

We live in a highly complex and evolving world that requires a fuller and deeper understanding of how modern technological tools, ideas, practices, and institutions interact, and how different societies adjust themselves to emerging realities of the digital age. This book conveys such issues with a fresh perspective and in a systematic and coherent way. While many studies have explained in depth the change in the aftermath of the unrests and uprisings throughout the world, they rarely mentioned the need for constructing new human rights norms and standards. This edited collection provides a balanced conceptual framework to demonstrate not only the power of autonomous communication networks but also their limits and the increasing setbacks they encounter in different contexts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781107140769
• ISBN-10: 1107140765
• Artikelnr.: 44273182

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: reflections on protests and human rights in the digital world
David P. Forsythe; 1. Introduction: protests and human rights in context
Mahmood Monshipouri; Part I. Framing the Digital Impact: Information
Society, Activism, and Human Rights: 2. Social movements in the digital age
Jack Barry; 3. What does human rights look like? The visual culture of aid,
advocacy, and activism Joel R. Pruce; 4. Activism, the internet, and the
struggle for human rights: youth movements in Tunisia and Egypt Mahmood
Monshipouri, Jonathon Whooley and Dina A. Ibrahim; Part II. Digital
Dissidence and Grassroots Politics: 5. Grassroots sanctions: a new tool for
domestic and transnational resistance for Palestine Shane Wesbrock, Mahmood
Monshipouri and Jess Ghannam; 6. Social media, Kyiv's Euromaidan, and
demands for sovereignty in Eastern Ukraine Bryon J. Moraski; 7. Networks of
protests in Latin America Juanita Darling; Part III. Network Politics and
Social Change: 8. Iran's Green movement, social media and the exposure of
human rights violations Elham Gheytanchi; 9. Social media and the politics
of protest and control: Turkey during and after the Gezi Park protests
Ihsan Dagi; 10. Social media and transformation of Indian politics in the
2014 elections Sanjoy Banerjee; 11. Promises to keep: the basic law, the
'umbrella movement' and democratic reform in Hong Kong Michael Davis; 12.
The quest for human rights in the digital age: how it has changed and the
struggle ahead Mahmood Monshipouri and Shadi Mokhtari.