Culture and Politics in the Information Age: A New Politics? (Transnationalism)

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Summary: New social movements under network society
Review: This book is a collection of papers presented in a conference. The question writers pose in this book is about the relationship between new social movements and IT. IT has revolutionized the communication thereby reshaped forms of political mobilization, protest. For example, protests on Ceatle, Rome, etc against globalization took the form of multinational movements. It was possible by internet to mobilize, organize on a global scale. Moreover, IT enabled social movements to take global agenda like global warming, GMO, and globalization.
In sum, papers in this book examines the interation between social movements and IT in respect to identity, strategy, and mobilization of social movements