Information Politics, Protests, and Human Rights in the Digital Age
Published on 9. June 2016
Book
Hardback
326 pages
978-1-107-14076-9 (ISBN)
Description
We live in a highly complex and evolving world that requires a fuller and deeper understanding of how modern technological tools, ideas, practices, and institutions interact, and how different societies adjust themselves to emerging realities of the digital age. This book conveys such issues with a fresh perspective and in a systematic and coherent way. While many studies have explained in depth the change in the aftermath of the unrests and uprisings throughout the world, they rarely mentioned the need for constructing new human rights norms and standards. This edited collection provides a balanced conceptual framework to demonstrate not only the power of autonomous communication networks but also their limits and the increasing setbacks they encounter in different contexts.
Reviews / Votes
'Information Politics, Protests, and Human Rights in the Digital Age, edited by Mahmood Monishipouri, takes on a different approach in dealing with the question of how modern technologies impact societies, as well as how societies adjust to deal with the emerging realities and moral implications of the digital age.' Dina Mansour-Ille, Human Rights ReviewMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
3 Halftones, unspecified; 3 Halftones, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
624 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-107-14076-9 (9781107140769)
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Person
Mahmood Monshipouri is Professor of International Relations at San Francisco State University. He is also a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
Content
Foreword: reflections on protests and human rights in the digital world David P. Forsythe; 1. Introduction: protests and human rights in context Mahmood Monshipouri; Part I. Framing the Digital Impact: Information Society, Activism, and Human Rights: 2. Social movements in the digital age Jack Barry; 3. What does human rights look like? The visual culture of aid, advocacy, and activism Joel R. Pruce; 4. Activism, the internet, and the struggle for human rights: youth movements in Tunisia and Egypt Mahmood Monshipouri, Jonathon Whooley and Dina A. Ibrahim; Part II. Digital Dissidence and Grassroots Politics: 5. Grassroots sanctions: a new tool for domestic and transnational resistance for Palestine Shane Wesbrock, Mahmood Monshipouri and Jess Ghannam; 6. Social media, Kyiv's Euromaidan, and demands for sovereignty in Eastern Ukraine Bryon J. Moraski; 7. Networks of protests in Latin America Juanita Darling; Part III. Network Politics and Social Change: 8. Iran's Green movement, social media and the exposure of human rights violations Elham Gheytanchi; 9. Social media and the politics of protest and control: Turkey during and after the Gezi Park protests Ihsan Dagi; 10. Social media and transformation of Indian politics in the 2014 elections Sanjoy Banerjee; 11. Promises to keep: the basic law, the 'umbrella movement' and democratic reform in Hong Kong Michael Davis; 12. The quest for human rights in the digital age: how it has changed and the struggle ahead Mahmood Monshipouri and Shadi Mokhtari.