Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies
Activists use digital technologies to communicate, coordinate, and organize for social change. But these big corporate digital platforms are also used to spread disinformation, racism, and abuse. Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge investigates the relationship between activism and technology, focusing on how activists think and talk about technology’s role in social change and what this tells us about the politics of digital technologies.
 
Researching movements in Italy, Hungary, and the United States, Elisabetta Ferrari examines how leftist activists construct technological imaginaries that appropriate, negotiate, and challenge Silicon Valley’s vision of technology. She argues that these imaginaries reflect and shape the politics of social movements: they matter for how activists think about their political possibilities. Ultimately, Ferrari centers the political and imaginative work that activists need to perform in order to navigate the politics of mainstream digital technologies.
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Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies
Activists use digital technologies to communicate, coordinate, and organize for social change. But these big corporate digital platforms are also used to spread disinformation, racism, and abuse. Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge investigates the relationship between activism and technology, focusing on how activists think and talk about technology’s role in social change and what this tells us about the politics of digital technologies.
 
Researching movements in Italy, Hungary, and the United States, Elisabetta Ferrari examines how leftist activists construct technological imaginaries that appropriate, negotiate, and challenge Silicon Valley’s vision of technology. She argues that these imaginaries reflect and shape the politics of social movements: they matter for how activists think about their political possibilities. Ultimately, Ferrari centers the political and imaginative work that activists need to perform in order to navigate the politics of mainstream digital technologies.
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Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies

Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies

by Elisabetta Ferrari
Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies

Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies

by Elisabetta Ferrari

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Activists use digital technologies to communicate, coordinate, and organize for social change. But these big corporate digital platforms are also used to spread disinformation, racism, and abuse. Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge investigates the relationship between activism and technology, focusing on how activists think and talk about technology’s role in social change and what this tells us about the politics of digital technologies.
 
Researching movements in Italy, Hungary, and the United States, Elisabetta Ferrari examines how leftist activists construct technological imaginaries that appropriate, negotiate, and challenge Silicon Valley’s vision of technology. She argues that these imaginaries reflect and shape the politics of social movements: they matter for how activists think about their political possibilities. Ultimately, Ferrari centers the political and imaginative work that activists need to perform in order to navigate the politics of mainstream digital technologies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520402041
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/19/2024
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 244
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Elisabetta Ferrari is an AIAS-AUFF Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark.

Table of Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 

1. Introduction 
2. Technological Imaginaries and the Universal Ambitions of Silicon Valley 
3. The Symbolic Power of Mundane Modernity: The Imaginary of Appropriation of the 
    Hungarian Internet Tax Protests 
4. Fighting the System with the Tools of the System: LUMe’s Imaginary of Negotiation 
5. Organizing Where People Are: Philly Socialists’ Imaginary of Negotiation 
6. Conclusion 

Methodological Appendix 
Notes 
References 
Index
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