[Commlist] new book: The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions

We would like to announce a recent publication from Cornell University 
Press, which we hope will be of interest.

*The Future of Change***

How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions

*Ray Brescia***

*_https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501748110/the-future-of-change/ 
<https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781501748110/the-future-of-change/>_**__*

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*CSLS2020*

In /The Future of Change/, Ray Brescia identifies a series of “social 
innovation moments” in American history. Through these moments—during 
which social movements have embraced advances in communications 
technologies—he illuminates the complicated, dangerous, innovative, and 
exciting relationship between these technologies, social movements, and 
social change. Brescia shows that, almost without fail, developments in 
how we communicate shape social movements, just as those movements 
change the very technologies themselves.*__*

 From the printing press to the television, social movements have 
leveraged communications technologies to advance change. In this moment 
of rapidly evolving communications, it’s imperative to assess the role 
that the Internet, mobile devices, and social media can play in 
promoting social justice. But first we must look to the past, to 
examples of movements throughout American history that successfully 
harnessed communications technology, thus facilitating positive social 
change. Such movements embraced new communications technologies to help 
organize their communities; to form grassroots networks in order to 
facilitate face-to-face interactions; and to promote positive, inclusive 
messaging that stressed their participants’ shared dignity and humanity. 
Using the past as prologue, /The Future of Change/provides effective 
lessons in the use of communications technology so that we can have the 
best communicative tools at our disposal—both now and in the future.*__*

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*Ray Brescia*is the Hon. Harold R. Tyler Chair in Law & Technology and a 
Professor of Law at Albany Law School. Before, he was a lawyer and 
community organizer in New York City, working in Harlem, Washington 
Heights, the South Bronx, and Chinatown to promote housing rights, 
worker rights, and economic development. He has held positions at the 
Urban Justice Center, the New Haven Legal Assistance Association, and 
the Legal Aid Society of New York, where he was a Skadden Fellow, and as 
a law clerk to the Hon. Constance Baker Motley, United States District 
Court Judge. Follow him on Twitter @rbrescia.*__*

*Cornell University Press**| April 2020 | 240pp | 9781501748110 | HB | 
£22.99**

*Price subject to change.

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