Revolt and Hope through Social Media

  • Teodora Lj. Ilić University of Priština with temporary Head Office in Kosovska Mitrovica, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Kosovska Mitrovica (Serbia)
Keywords: Manuel Castells, social movements, social media, “Internet revolutions”, Arab Spring

Abstract


This paper reviews Castells’s book Networks of Outrage and Hope – Social Movements in the Internet Age which reaffirms the power of new social movements, pointing to their promotion in virtual space and concluding, on the basis of it, about their spontaneity, nonviolence and democracy as inherent characteristics, which can be problematized.

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Published
2021/01/14
Section
Opinion Reviews