[Commlist] new book: Appropriate, negotiate, challenge: Activist imaginaries and the politics of digital technologies

New book announcement

Appropriate, negotiate, challenge: Activist imaginaries and the politics 
of digital technologies
Elisabetta Ferrari
University of California Press

_www.ucpress.edu/books/appropriate-negotiate-challenge/

 From the back cover:
Activists use digital technologies to communicate, coordinate, and 
organize for social change. But these big corporate digital platforms 
are also used to spread disinformation, racism, and abuse. /Appropriate, 
Negotiate, Challenge/ investigates the relationship between activism and 
technology, focusing on how activists think and talk about technology’s 
role in social change and what this tells us about the politics of 
digital technologies.
Researching movements in Italy, Hungary, and the United States, 
Elisabetta Ferrari examines how leftist activists construct 
technological imaginaries that appropriate, negotiate, and challenge 
Silicon Valley’s vision of technology. She argues that these imaginaries 
reflect and shape the politics of social movements: they matter for how 
activists think about their political possibilities. Ultimately, Ferrari 
centers the political and imaginative work that activists need to 
perform in order to navigate the politics of mainstream digital 
technologies.
"A fresh and innovative approach to connecting technological imaginaries 
with social movements. Elisabetta Ferrari uses canonical influences to 
reinvent how we approach the question of mobilization. This book is a 
compelling and inspiring take on how mobilization becomes digitally 
remediated."—/Zizi Papacharissi, author of After Democracy: Imagining 
Our Political Future/
"A timely book that renews and deepens discussions on digital 
technologies and social justice activism. Moving beyond hype around 
social media, Ferrari skillfully offers empirically rich and 
conceptually rigorous insights on activists' imaginaries as well as the 
value of media technologies for activism and possibilities for creating 
change. A must-read for everyone interested in media and social 
movements."—/Tina Askanius, Professor in Media and Communication 
Studies, Malmö University/
"Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge is bold and imaginative scholarship. 
Ferrari provides fresh perspectives and rich data, illustrating how 
activist movements grapple with and ultimately make sense of the digital 
technologies they deploy. You will learn a lot from this book."—/David 
Karpf, author of The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of 
American Political Advocacy/
*Elisabetta Ferrari* is an AIAS-AUFF Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of 
Advanced Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark.
_www.ucpress.edu/books/appropriate-negotiate-challenge/ 
<http://www.ucpress.edu/books/appropriate-negotiate-challenge/>_




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