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02982aam a2200397 i 4500 001 3414A6626B5611E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160826010517 008 140724s2014 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014025909 020 $a 1137308257 020 $a 9781137308252 035 $a (OCoLC)881655823 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d UKMGB $d CHVBK $d OCLCQ $d SILO 050 00 $a HM851 B478 2014 100 1 $a Bessant, Judith, $e author. 245 10 $a Democracy bytes : $b new media, new politics and generational change / $c Judith Bessant. 264 1 $a Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2014. 300 $a ix, 322 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "This study is about new media, young people, the crisis of democracy and political renewal. It addresses a mixture of traditional and new questions: What is the political? How do we understand politics in a 'network age'? Can we talk sensibly about the concept of generation and generational change? Does democracy have a future? This book presents an optimistic assessment of how digital media supports new and distinctive forms of politics. Four case studies are offered: one of performance art and protest in Russia, another investigates new media campaigns to defend the rights to freedom of speech and copyright in America, one enquires into indigenous art and cartoons as politics in outback Australia and the last explores new forms of student action in schools and the university"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 8 $a Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Politics In the Age of the Digital -- 3. How The Light Gets In: Change and Continuity -- 4. Change and Generation -- 5. Coming of Age in a Digital Neo-liberal World: Generation and Politics -- 6. A Heuristic or Guiding Framework -- PART II: CASE STUDIES: IDENTIFYING POLITICAL CHANGE AND GENERATIONS -- 7. Democratic Renewal, Pussy Riot and Flash Gigs in the Kremlin -- 8. The Graduate's Future and Neoliberal Education: New Generation Politics on the Campus -- 9. The Stop Online Piracy Act Case -- 10. The Digital, Indigenous Art and Politics -- 11. Conclusion. 650 0 $a Digital media $x Political aspects. 650 0 $a Information technology $x Political aspects. 650 0 $a Information society $x Political aspects. 650 0 $a Political participation $x Technological innovations. 650 0 $a Democracy. 650 0 $a Digital media $x Political aspects $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Information technology $x Political aspects $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Information society $x Political aspects $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Political participation $x Technological innovations $v Case studies. 650 0 $a Democracy $v Case studies. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826103438.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3414A6626B5611E69AFE1DDBDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search