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The notion of "the problematic" has changed its meaning within the history of power and knowledge since the early 20th century, leading up to today's performative, neocybernetic fascination with generalized management ideas and technocratic models of science. This book explores central scenes, conceptual elaborations, and practical affiliations of what historically has been called "the problem" or "the problematic". By way of considering modes of problematization as modes of inhabitation, intervention, and transformation the contributions map its current conceptual-political uses as well as onto-epistemological challenges. Thus, "problematization" is positioned as a critical concept that links, often in intricate ways, several currents from speculative philosophy to the formation of interdisciplinary fields. The "problematic", as it turns out, has been the source of change in philosophy and the sciences all along.
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• Introduction, Lina Dencik and Oliver Leistert /
• 1. Promise and Practice in Studies of Social Media and Movements. Sebastian Haunss / Part I: Algorithmic Control and Visibility /
• 2. The Revolution Will Not Be Liked: On the Systemic Constraints of Corporate Social Media Platforms for Protests, Oliver Leistert /
• 3. Mobilizing in Times of Social Media: From a Politics of Identity to a Politics of Visibility, Stefania Milan / Part II: Temporal Alienation and Redefining Spaces /
• 4. Social Media, Immediacy and the Time for Democracy: Critical Reflections on Social Media as 'Temporalising Practices', Veronica Barassi /
• 5. "This Space Belongs to Us!": Protest Spaces in Times of Accelerating Capitalism, Anne Kaun / Part III: Surveillance, Censorship and Political Economy /
• 6. Social Media Censorship, Privatised Regulation, and New Restrictions to Protest and Dissent, Arne Hintz /
• 7. Social Media Protest in Context: Surveillance, Information / Management, and Neoliberal Governance in Canada, Joanna Redden /
• 8. Preempting Dissent: From Participatory Policing to Collaborative Filmmaking, Greg Elmer / Part IV: Dissent and Fragmentation From Within /
• 9. The Struggle Within: Discord, Conflict and Paranoia in Social Media Protest, Emiliano Trere /
• 10. Social Media and the 2013 Protests in Brazil: The Contradictory Nature of Political Mobilization in the Digital Era, Mauro P. Porto and Joao Brant / Part V: Myths and Organisational Trajectories /
• 11. Social Media and the 'New Authenticity' of Protest. Lina Dencik /
• 12. Network Cultures and the Architecture of Decision. Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter / Notes on Contributors.
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• Introduction, Lina Dencik and Oliver Leistert / Part I: Discourses of Protest /
• 1. Social Media and Social Movements: Promise and Practice, Sebastian Haunss /
• 2. Social Media and the 'New Authenticity' of Protest, Lina Dencik / Part II: Protest Dynamics and Temporalities /
• 3. Social Movements and Collective Identity in Times of Social Media: From a politics of identity to a politics of visibility, Stefania Milan /
• 4. The Struggle Within: Unfolding discord, conflict and paranoia in contemporary activists' social media practices, Emiliano Trere /
• 5. Social Media and the 2013 Protests in Brazil: Class bias and agenda fragmentation in online political mobilizations, Mauro P. Porto and Joao Brant /
• 6. Regimes of Time: Media practices of the dispossessed, Anne Kaun /
• 7. Internet Time and the Time for Democracy: Critical reflections on social media as 'temporalising practices', Veronica Barassi / Part III: Censorship, Surveillance, and Policing of Protests /
• 8. Social Media Censorship, Privatized Regulation and New Restrictions of Protest and Dissent, Arne Hintz /
• 9. The Revolution Will Not Be Liked: On the systemic limits of protests and political campaigns on commercial social media platforms, Oliver Leistert /
• 10. Predictive Policing, Social Media Analysis and Preventing Protest: The future is here, Joanna Redden /
• 11. Mobilizing Protest Media: From the hand-held to the documentary, Greg Elmer /
• 12. The Politics of Organized Networks: The art of collective coordination, Geert Lovink.
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Commercial social media platforms have become integral to contemporary forms of protests. They are intensely used by advocacy groups, non-governmental organisations, social movements and other political actors who increasingly integrate social media platforms into broader practices of organizing and campaigning. But, aside from the many advantages of extensive mobilization opportunities at low cost, what are the implications of social media corporations being involved in these grassroots movements? This book takes a much-needed critical approach to the relationship between social media and protest. Highlighting key issues and concerns in contemporary forms of social media activism, including questions of censorship, surveillance, individualism, and temporality, the book combines contributions from some of the most active scholars in the field today. Advancing both conceptual and empirical work on social media and protest, and with a range of different angles, the book provides a fresh and challenging outlook on a very topical debate.
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