Information politics, protests, and human rights in the digital age / [editor], Mahmood Monshipouri, San Francisco State University.
"We live in a highly complex and evolving world that requires a fuller and deeper understanding of how modern technological tools, ideas, practices, and institutions interact, and how different societies adjust themselves to emerging realities of the digital age. This book conveys such issues w...
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: Reflections on Protests and Human Rights in the Digital World / David P. Forsythe
- Introduction: Protests and Human Rights in Context / Mahmood Monshipouri
- Social Movements in the Digital Age / Jack Barry
- What Does Human Rights Look Like? The Visual Culture of Aid, Advocacy, and Activism / Joel R. Pruce
- Activism, the Internet, and the Struggle for Human Rights: Youth Movements in Tunisia and Egypt / Mahmood Monshipouri, Jonathon Whooley, and Dina A. Ibrahim
- Grassroots Sanctions: A New Tool for Domestic and Transnational Resistance for Palestine / Shane Wesbrock, Mahmood Monshipouri, and Jess Ghannam
- Social Media, Kyiv's Euromaidan, and Demands for Sovereignty in Eastern Ukraine / Bryon J. Moraski
- Networks of Protests in Latin America / Juanita Darling
- Iran's Green Movement, Social Media and the Exposure of Human Rights Violations / Elham Gheytanchi
- Social Media and the Politics of Protest and Control: Turkey During and After the Gezi Park Protests / Ihsan Dagi
- Social Media and Transformation of Indian Politics in the 2014 Elections / Sanjoy Banerjee
- Promises to Keep: The Basic Law, the "Umbrella Movement" and Democratic Reform in Hong Kong / Michael Davis
- Conclusion: The Quest for Human Rights in the Digital Age: How It Has Changed and the Struggle Ahead / Mahmood Monshipouri and Shadi Mokhtari.