{"product_id":"digital-rebellion-todd-wolfson-9780252038846","title":"Digital Rebellion: The Birth of the Cyber Left","description":"\u003ci\u003eDigital Rebellion\u003c\/i\u003e examines the impact of new media and communication technologies on the spatial, strategic, and organizational fabric of social movements. \u003cp\u003eTodd 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelding 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Todd Wolfson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252038843\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252038846\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Illinois Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2015","brand":"Todd Wolfson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086443098367,"sku":"9780252038846","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a7c9880e-7fef-4395-8729-ef0a398709dd.jpg?v=1769094698","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/digital-rebellion-todd-wolfson-9780252038846","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}