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Just published... New Media and Public Activism: Neoliberalism, the State and Radical Protest in the Public Sphere (Policy Press, 2014) By John Michael Roberts, Sociology and Communications, Brunel University, London. The Arab Spring, chat forums, political leaders tweeting, online petitions, and protestors in the Occupy Movement, new media public spheres have without doubt radically altered social and political activism in society. But to what extent is this new activist public sphere stifled by the neoliberal economy and workfare state? Have we in fact become transformed into subjects of online consumption and orderly surveillance, rather than committed social and political campaigners? In this highly topical book, John Michael Roberts employs a political economy perspective to explore the relationship between financial neoliberal capitalism and digital publics. He assesses the extent to which they provide new forms of radical protest in civil society and offers an indispensable guide to understanding the relationship between the state, new media activism and neoliberal practices. Contents 1. Introducing New Media and Public Activism 2. Creative Digital Capitalism? Exploitation, Information and Finance 3. Neoliberalism and New Public Management: The Rise of the Competent Public Sphere 4. E-Democracy and Public Deliberation in the Competent Public Sphere 5. Social Media and the Neoliberal Subject 6. Zoning Public Space 1: Hybrid Surveillance and State Power 7. Zoning Public Space 2: Gentrification, Community Publics and CCTV 8. Global Social Movements: Beyond the Competent Public Sphere? 9. Conclusion: The Occupy Movement, Community Activism and 'Incompetent' Public Spheres. For more information please go to, http://www.policypress.co.uk/display.asp?K=9781447308218& -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid “engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list.” For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------