Digital Activism and the Global Middle Class

Generation Hashtag

Lukas Schlogl (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-03723-3 (ISBN)

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This book examines the causes of a growing wave of digital activism across developing countries, arguing that it is driven by social change, rather than technological advancement alone. Beginning with an investigation into the modernization of ‘middle-income countries’ and its ramifications for political culture, the book examines large-scale social media protest during political controversies in Indonesia.

The book connects empirical evidence to classic theories of value change and political behaviour. It departs from a narrow ‘digital divide’ framing whereby Internet access produces Internet activism. It introduces the concepts of ‘digital self-expression’ and of ‘middle-class struggles’ to capture the value-stratified nature of political engagement in the online sphere. Drawing on a blend of ‘big-data’ text analyses, representative opinion research, and socioeconomic household analyses, a rich picture of the determinants of digital activism emerges.

This truly cross-disciplinary book will appeal particularly to students and scholars in Political Science, Sociology, International Development, and Communication, but also to anyone eager to learn about political activism, social transformation, and new media from a global perspective.

Lukas Schlogl is a social scientist at the University of Vienna, Austria. His research focuses on the politics of technological change.

List of Figures, List of Tables, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations and Acronyms, 1. Introduction, 2. The Mobile Middle: Rise of an Aspiring Class, 3. From Traditional Values to Digital Self-Expression, 4. Socioeconomic Origins of Digital Activism, 5. From Twitter Fame to Public Shame: How a Social Media Storm Saved Indonesia’s
Democracy, 6. Clash of the Hashtags: Post-/Materialist Partisanship in Social Media, 7. Digital Activism between Precarity and Prosperity, 8. Generation Hashtag: Middle-Class Struggles in the Digital Sphere, Annex, Index

Erscheinungsdatum	23.05.2022
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia
Zusatzinfo	13 Tables, black and white; 16 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 18 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	1-032-03723-7 / 1032037237
ISBN-13	978-1-032-03723-3 / 9781032037233
Zustand	Neuware