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The Revolution That Wasn’t : How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives / Jen Schradie.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674240438
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23/1 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: The False Promise of Digital Activism -- Introduction: Public Unions, Patriots, and the Battle for the Internet -- Chapter One. The Great Class Wedge and the Internet’s Hidden Costs -- Chapter Two. Bureaucracy’s Revenge and the Organization of Digital Activism -- Chapter Three. The Right’s Digital Evangelism and Its Boots on the Ground -- Chapter Four. The Left’s Radical Fairness and Its Muted Online Bullhorn -- Conclusion: The Digital Activism Gap’s Threat to Democracy -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary: In this counterintuitive study of digital democracy, Jen Schradie shows how the web has become another weapon in the arsenal of the powerful, and a potent weapon for conservative activists. Rather than leveling the playing field, the internet has tilted it in favor of the Right, where only the most sophisticated and well-funded players can compete.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: The False Promise of Digital Activism -- Introduction: Public Unions, Patriots, and the Battle for the Internet -- Chapter One. The Great Class Wedge and the Internet’s Hidden Costs -- Chapter Two. Bureaucracy’s Revenge and the Organization of Digital Activism -- Chapter Three. The Right’s Digital Evangelism and Its Boots on the Ground -- Chapter Four. The Left’s Radical Fairness and Its Muted Online Bullhorn -- Conclusion: The Digital Activism Gap’s Threat to Democracy -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

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In this counterintuitive study of digital democracy, Jen Schradie shows how the web has become another weapon in the arsenal of the powerful, and a potent weapon for conservative activists. Rather than leveling the playing field, the internet has tilted it in favor of the Right, where only the most sophisticated and well-funded players can compete.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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