Review of Social Movements and Their Technologies: Wiring Social Change. (original) (raw)

While somewhat neglectful of the politics embedded within the development of new communicative technologies, Social Movements and Their Technologies opens up new conversations regarding the socio-cultural embeddness of contemporary social movements by providing a useful overview of the relationship between social movements and ‘liberating technologies’ that demystifies the communications infrastructures that have made possible some of the major protest events of the past 15 years. To do so, author Stefania Milan centres her analyses around what she terms ‘emancipatory communication practices’ (ECPs), repertoires of collective action and social organisation that seek to create alternatives by challenging existing media and communications infrastructures.