Information Politics, Protests, and Human Rights in the Digital Age [Paperback]

This edited collection offers a fresh perspective on how a quiet digital revolution from below spreads throughout the world.This edited collection provides a balanced conceptual framework to demonstrate not only the power of autonomous communication networks, but also their limits and the increasing setbacks they encounter in different contexts from diverse parts of the world.This edited collection provides a balanced conceptual framework to demonstrate not only the power of autonomous communication networks, but also their limits and the increasing setbacks they encounter in different contexts from diverse parts of the world.We live in a highly complex and evolving world that requires a fuller and deeper understanding of how modern technological tools, ideas, practices, and institutions interact, and how different societies adjust themselves to emerging realities of the digital age. This book conveys such issues with a fresh perspective and in a systematic and coherent way. While many studies have explained in depth the change in the aftermath of the unrests and uprisings throughout the world, they rarely mentioned the need for constructing new human rights norms and standards. This edited collection provides a balanced conceptual framework to demonstrate not only the power of autonomous communication networks but also their limits and the increasing setbacks they encounter in different contexts.Foreword: reflections on protests and human rights in the digital world David P. Forsythe; 1. Introduction: protests and human rights in context Mahmood Monshipouri; Part I. Framing the Digital Impact: Information Society, Activism, and Human Rights: 2. Social movements in the digital age Jack Barry; 3. What does human rights look like? The visual culture of aid, advocacy, and activism Joel R. Pruce; 4. Activism, the internet, and the struggle for human rights: youth movements in Tunisia and Egypt Mahmood Monshipouri, Jonathon Whooley and Dina A. Ibrahim; Part II. Digital Dl#®