Digital Activism and the Global Middle Class

This book examines the causes of a growing wave of digital activism across developing countries, arguing that it is driven by social change, rather than technological advancement alone.

Autorentext

Lukas Schlogl is a social scientist at the University of Vienna, Austria. His research focuses on the politics of technological change.

Inhalt

List of Figures, List of Tables, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations and Acronyms, 1. Introduction, 2. The Mobile Middle: Rise of an Aspiring Class, 3. From Traditional Values to Digital Self-Expression, 4. Socioeconomic Origins of Digital Activism, 5. From Twitter Fame to Public Shame: How a Social Media Storm Saved Indonesia's
Democracy, 6. Clash of the Hashtags: Post-/Materialist Partisanship in Social Media, 7. Digital Activism between Precarity and Prosperity, 8. Generation Hashtag: Middle-Class Struggles in the Digital Sphere, Annex, Index