Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies

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Dr. Elisabetta Ferrari

Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge

Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies

Dr. Elisabetta Ferrari

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University of California Press
03 March 2025

Media studies; Social discrimination; Political structure & processes; Political activism; Impact of science & technology on society

Activists utilize 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 ""activist 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 movement: 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.

By: Dr. Elisabetta Ferrari
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9780520402027
ISBN 10: 0520402022
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 03 March 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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