TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gerbaudo,Paolo
TI  - Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism 
SN  - 9781849648004
PB  - Pluto Press
KW  - Social Science / Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social sciences
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - Tweets and the Streets analyses the culture of the new protest movements of the 21st century. From the Arab Spring to the 'indignados' protests in Spain and the Occupy movement, Paolo Gerbaudo examines the relationship between the rise of social media and the emergence of new forms of protest. Gerbaudo argues that activists' use of Twitter and Facebook does not fit with the image of a 'cyberspace' detached from physical reality. Instead, social media is used as part of a project of re-appropriation of public space, which involves the assembling of different groups around 'occupied' places such as Cairo's Tahrir Square or New York's Zuccotti Park. An exciting and invigorating journey through the new politics of dissent, Tweets and the Streets points both to the creative possibilities and to the risks of political evanescence which new media brings to the contemporary protest experience
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/6b1959ff-fdff-45bf-9825-5fa6f9c3ae6c
ER  -