[Air-L] new book - Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist imaginaries and the politics of digital technologies

[Elisabetta Ferrari]

Hello Air-Listers,

I’m happy to announce that my book "Appropriate, negotiate, challenge:
Activist imaginaries and the politics of digital technologies" is out today
from University of California Press.

>From the back cover:

Activists use digital technologies to communicate, coordinate, and organize
for social change. But these big corporate digital platforms are also used
to spread disinformation, racism, and abuse. Appropriate, Negotiate,
Challenge investigates the relationship between activism and technology,
focusing on how activists think and talk about technology’s role in social
change and what this tells us about the politics of digital technologies.

Researching movements in Italy, Hungary, and the United States, Elisabetta
Ferrari examines how leftist activists construct technological imaginaries
that appropriate, negotiate, and challenge Silicon Valley’s vision of
technology. She argues that these imaginaries reflect and shape the
politics of social movements: they matter for how activists think about
their political possibilities. Ultimately, Ferrari centers the political
and imaginative work that activists need to perform in order to navigate
the politics of mainstream digital technologies.

"A fresh and innovative approach to connecting technological imaginaries
with social movements. Elisabetta Ferrari uses canonical influences to
reinvent how we approach the question of mobilization. This book is a
compelling and inspiring take on how mobilization becomes digitally
remediated."—Zizi Papacharissi, author of After Democracy: Imagining Our
Political Future

"A timely book that renews and deepens discussions on digital technologies
and social justice activism. Moving beyond hype around social media,
Ferrari skillfully offers empirically rich and conceptually rigorous
insights on activists' imaginaries as well as the value of media
technologies for activism and possibilities for creating change. A
must-read for everyone interested in media and social movements."—Tina
Askanius, Professor in Media and Communication Studies, Malmö University

"Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge is bold and imaginative scholarship.
Ferrari provides fresh perspectives and rich data, illustrating how
activist movements grapple with and ultimately make sense of the digital
technologies they deploy. You will learn a lot from this book."—David
Karpf, author of The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of
American Political Advocacy

Elisabetta Ferrari is an AIAS-AUFF Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of
Advanced Studies at Aarhus University in Denmark.

www.ucpress.edu/books/appropriate-negotiate-challenge/


All my best,
Elisabetta


Elisabetta Ferrari, Ph.D.
AIAS-AUFF Fellow
Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University

eferrari at aias.au.dk
https://elisabettaferrariphd.com/
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