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Title: Technology and Resistance

Technology and Resistance

Digital Communications and New Coalitions around the World

by Ann De Vaney (Volume editor) Stephen Gance (Volume editor) Yan Ma (Volume editor)
©2000 Textbook X, 182 Pages
Media and Communication
Series: Counterpoints, Volume 59

Summary

What happens when the means of communication, often centralized, become diffused? What happens when coalitions in South Africa, Malawi, China, Russia, Turkey, Burma, El Salvador, and the United States utilize electronic technologies to seek enfranchisement? This book describes such creative uses by emergent democratic movements and other cultural alliances seeking solidarity in these countries. It investigates the way the strange confluence of technological language and radical social change opens new discursive terrain. Unusual fissures and interstices appear; some auger well for the distribution of political power and the promotion of free speech, while unfortunately some open gaps within old hierarchies implicit in capitalistic discourses of technology.

Details

Pages
X, 182
Publication Year
2000
ISBN (Softcover)
9780820437958
Language
English
Keywords
Democratic movement Solidarity Social change Political power Electronic technology
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., Oxford, Wien, 2000. X, 182 pp., ill.
Product Safety
Peter Lang Group AG

Biographical notes

Ann De Vaney (Volume editor) Stephen Gance (Volume editor) Yan Ma (Volume editor)

The Editors: Ann De Vaney is Professor Emerita of Educational Communications and Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Visiting Professor in the Department of Education, University of California, Irvine. Her work explores the intersections of education, technology, and social/cultural issues. One of her latest texts is Watching Channel One: The Convergence of Students, Technology, and Private Business. Stephen Gance received his B.S. in mathematics and M.S. in computer science from the University of Colorado in Boulder. He is currently a doctoral student in the Educational Communications and Technology Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Curriculum and Instruction. Yan Ma is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island. Her work focuses on critical and cultural analysis of technologies and information systems in library science and education.

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