Interesting @NewYorker essay about why and how we protest in the context of new books on the topic--including mine. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/is-there-any-point-to-protesting …pic.twitter.com/sGcPAli0Pu
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Interesting @NewYorker essay about why and how we protest in the context of new books on the topic--including mine. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/is-there-any-point-to-protesting …pic.twitter.com/sGcPAli0Pu
Too often, discussions of protest reduce to false dilemmas: was it the people or the tech? ::roll eyes:: Did it achieve X: yes/no? ::sigh::
Protests and movements are not one single thing: they do many things in different temporal and political scales—some contradictory at times.
Protests in the digital era are a reconfiguration: they're not just slightly faster versions of old ones—though neither are they 100% novel.
Hence the title of my book: the power *and* fragility of networked protest—which, btw, has creative commons copy: http://www.twitterandteargas.org
(If you buy the book it helps my publisher have more creative commons books; I donate extra sales money—if there is any—to refugee support).
I tried to answer this question: why do some protest movements have the kind of impacts they do while others follow different trajectories?
What is it about a march/rally that gives it power to scare those in power—beyond the feelings of solidarity it engenders among marchers?
And how does the digital era and its affordances, platforms & algorithms interact with movement trajectories? Hard to have a single answer.
Which is why I wrote a whole book!
Always happy to see nuanced and complex discussions.
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