[ecrea] New Media and Public Activism book

New Media and Public Activism: Neoliberalism, the State and Radical 
Protest in the Public Sphere (Policy Press, 2014)

By

John Michael Roberts, Sociology and Communications, Brunel University, 
London.



The Arab Spring, chat forums, political leaders tweeting, online 
petitions, and protestors in the Occupy Movement, new media public 
spheres have without doubt radically altered social and political 
activism in society. But to what extent is this new activist public 
sphere stifled by the neoliberal economy and workfare state? Have we in 
fact become transformed into subjects of online consumption and orderly 
surveillance, rather than committed social and political campaigners? In 
this highly topical book, John Michael Roberts employs a political 
economy perspective to explore the relationship between financial 
neoliberal capitalism and digital publics. He assesses the extent to 
which they provide new forms of radical protest in civil society and 
offers an indispensable guide to understanding the relationship between 
the state, new media activism and neoliberal practices.



Contents

1. Introducing New Media and Public Activism

2. Creative Digital Capitalism? Exploitation, Information and Finance

3. Neoliberalism and New Public Management: The Rise of the Competent 
Public Sphere

4. E-Democracy and Public Deliberation in the Competent Public Sphere

5. Social Media and the Neoliberal Subject

6. Zoning Public Space 1: Hybrid Surveillance and State Power

7. Zoning Public Space 2: Gentrification, Community Publics and CCTV

8. Global Social Movements: Beyond the Competent Public Sphere?

9. Conclusion: The Occupy Movement, Community Activism and 'Incompetent' 
Public Spheres.



For more information please go to, 
http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781447308218&;

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