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6. The Public Sphere and Network Democracy: The Arab Spring, WikiLeaks and the Edward Snowden Revelations

verfasst von : Petros Iosifidis, Mark Wheeler

Erschienen in: Public Spheres and Mediated Social Networks in the Western Context and Beyond

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

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For many Internet advocates, social media provide an electronic agora to allow a variety of issues to be raised, framed and effectively debated. However, a debate has emerged as to whether the social media are truly a force capable of reconfiguring power relations in terms of economic, political and social organisation. With the fallout from the Arab Spring and online whistle-blowing, difficult questions have arisen—not least of which is whether information technologies have been more effective in mobilising voices of protest than in effecting sustainable democratic change.

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Titel: The Public Sphere and Network Democracy: The Arab Spring, WikiLeaks and the Edward Snowden Revelations
verfasst von: Petros Iosifidis
Mark Wheeler
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Buch: Public Spheres and Mediated Social Networks in the Western Context and Beyond
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-41029-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-41030-6

Copyright-Jahr: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-41030-6_6