TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greg Elmer
AU  - Ganaele Langlois
AU  - Fenwick McKelvey
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - The Permanent Campaign
T2  - New Media, New Politics
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1109149
N2  - From the social media-based 2008 Obama election campaign to the civic protest and political revolutions of the 2011 Arab Spring, the past few years have been marked by a widespread and complex shift in the political landscape, as the rise of participatory platforms – such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and blogs – have multiplied the venues for political communication and activism.  This book explores the emergence of a permanent campaign – the need for constant readiness – on networked communication platforms, focusing on political moments, crises and elections in Canada, the U.S.A., and Australia. The book chapters investigate the proliferation of new political actors and communicators: political bloggers, advocacy groups, diverse publics, and political party staff as they engage in political maneuvers across participatory platforms. With in-depth analyses of some of the most well-known participatory media today, this book offers a critical assessment of the constant efforts at managing the plurality of voices that characterize contemporary politics.
KW  - civic protest, political revolutions, activism
LA  - English
ER  -