Communicating Global Activism
@article{Bennett2003CommunicatingGA, title={Communicating Global Activism}, author={W. Lance Bennett}, journal={Information, Communication \& Society}, year={2003}, volume={6}, pages={143 - 168} }
Many observers doubt the capacity of digital media to change the political game. The rise of a transnational activism that is aimed beyond states and directly at corporations, trade and development regimes offers a fruitful area for understanding how communication practices can help create a new politics. The Internet is implicated in the new global activism far beyond merely reducing the costs of communication, or transcending the geographical and temporal barriers associated with other…
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