Digital Rebellion examines the impact of new media and communication technologies on the spatial, strategic, and organizational fabric of social movements.
Todd Wolfson reveals how aspects of the mid-1990s Zapatistas movement--network organizational structure, participatory democratic governance, and the use of communication tools as a binding agent--became essential parts of Indymedia and other Cyber Left organizations. From there he uses oral interviews and other rich ethnographic data to chart the media-based think tanks and experiments that continued the Cyber Left's evolution through the Independent Media Center's birth around the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle.
Melding virtual and traditional ethnographic practice to explore the Cyber Left's cultural logic, Wolfson maps the social, spatial and communicative structure of the Indymedia network and details its operations on the local, national and global level. He looks at the participatory democracy that governs global social movements and the ways democracy and decentralization have come into tension, and how "the switchboard of struggle" conducts stories from the hyper-local and disperses them worldwide. As he shows, understanding the intersection of Indymedia and the Global Social Justice Movement illuminates their foundational role in the Occupy struggle and other emergent movements that have re-energized radical politics.
"The first book to chart the intellectual and technological history of the Indymedia network and to place that history within the theoretical debate about social movement organization and politics. This is an important chapter in contemporary social movement activism and Todd Wolfson does an excellent job charting the rise of the Independent Media Center and the theoretical implications of this model for left political organizing."--Andy Opel, author of Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future
"Combining the passion of an activist and the reasoned arguments of a scholar, Wolfson wonderfully details the emergence of the Cyber Left. In Digital Rebellion he not only celebrates its political potential but also, and more importantly, provides a lucid critique of the forms it has taken thus far."--Michael Hardt, co-author of Declaration and Empire
"Makes an original contribution through the depth of the empirical case studies of Cyber Left organization. . . . I cannot think of another book that puts so much of the story of the U.S. left's experiments with the creation of an 'electronic fabric of struggle' within a single volume. . . . The author's knowledge, thoughtfulness, and political passion is evident." --Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games
A trained socio-cultural anthropologist, Todd Wolfson is currently an assistant professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University. He is also a community organizer and in 2006 cofounded the Media Mobilizing Project in Philadelphia.
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评分这本书给我带来的体验,是一种智识上的冒险,也是一次心灵的探索。作者的文字充满了力量,它不仅仅是在传递信息,更是在唤醒一种意识,一种对当下时代深刻的理解和反思。
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评分我被作者对细节的关注所折服。很多时候,那些被我们忽略的微小之处,往往蕴含着最核心的逻辑。作者就像一位侦探,在海量的信息碎片中,抽丝剥茧,找到那些最关键的线索,并将其串联起来,形成一个完整且令人信服的图景。这种严谨的论证过程,让我对书中所提出的观点深信不疑。
评分这不仅仅是一本书,更像是一次对话,一次作者与读者之间,关于我们所处时代最核心议题的深入交流。它让我看到了一个我们每天都在经历,却鲜有人能如此清晰地剖析的“新世界”。
评分读完这本书,我感到一种前所未有的清晰。很多之前萦绕在我脑海中的困惑,在作者的引导下,都找到了解答的方向。这是一种思想的启迪,更是一种认知的重塑。我开始更加审慎地对待我与数字世界的关系,也更加珍视我作为个体的独立思考能力。
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评分我尤其欣赏作者在处理复杂议题时所展现出的平衡性。他并没有采取一边倒的批判态度,而是呈现了数字技术所带来的便利与挑战并存的现实。这种客观公正的视角,使得这本书更具说服力,也更能引起不同立场读者的共鸣。
评分这本书给我带来的最大震撼,并非是对某个具体事件的披露,而是它所引发的更深层次的思考。它让我重新审视了“数字”这个词的含义,它不再仅仅是代码和数据,而是一种全新的语言,一种全新的生存模式,甚至是一种新的权力结构。而“反叛”也并非意味着破坏,而可能是一种对既有规则的质疑,一种对个体价值的坚守。
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