Ebook: Digital, Political, Radical

"Fenton makes an impassioned plea for re-invigorating critical research on digital media such that it can be explanatory, practical and normative. She dares us to be politically emboldened. She urges us to seek out an emancipatory politics that aims to deepen our democratic horizons. To ask, how can we do democracy better? What are the conditions required to live together well? Then, what is the role of the media and how can we reclaim media, power and politics for progressive ends? Journeying through a range of protest and political movements, Fenton debunks myths of digital media along the way and points us in the direction of newly emergent politics of the Left."--Provided by publisher.;Introduction : Sowing the Seeds of Dissent -- Digital Activism : A New Means of and a New Meaning of Being Political -- Digital Media, Radical Politics and Counter Public Spheres -- Passion and Politics : Radical Politics and Mediated Subjects -- Radical Politics and Organisational Form in Theory and in Practice -- On Being Political and the Politics of Being -- Conclusion : Putting Politics Back in the Picture?