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  • Youth, Transitions and Social Justice

    Researching Spaces of Social Action

    Series series Spaces and Practices of Justice
    This book considers young people’s conceptions and experiences of social justice through key transitions in their lives. It examines the factors shaping and constraining young people’s actions for a fairer society in a time when real world and virtual social spaces have become fragmented.Considering questions of race, gender and class the collection includes globally diverse research perspectives, ... Read more

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  • Cyberprotest

    New Media, Citizens and Social Movements

    Ever since the anti-globalisation protests in Seattle in 1999 the adoption of new information and communications technologies (ICTs) by social movement activists has offered the prospect for the development of global cyberprotest. The Internet with its transnational many-to-many communication facility offers a revolutionary potential for social movements to go online and circumvent the 'official' ... Read more

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  • The Networked Young Citizen

    Social Media, Political Participation and Civic Engagement

    Series series Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society
    The future engagement of young citizens from a wide range of socio-economic, ethnic and cultural backgrounds in democratic politics remains a crucial concern for academics, policy-makers, civics teachers and youth workers around the world. At a time when the negative relationship between socio-economic inequality and levels of political participation is compounded by high youth unemployment or ... Read more

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  • Digital Democracy

    Discourse and Decision Making in the Information Age

    Digital Democracy considers how technological developments might combine with underlying social, economic and political conditions to produce new vehicles for democratic practice.The growth of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet, alongside growing concerns about the failure of advanced societies to live up to the democratic idea, has produced much interest in ... Read more

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  • Community Informatics

    Shaping Computer-Mediated Social Networks

    Community groups, social support networks, voluntary agencies and government organisations are all actively exploring the potential of the new information and communication technologies to bring about democratic development and renewal. A rich variety of social experiments in what has become known as Community Informatics is now beginning to provide useful research findings and exciting examples ... Read more

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  • Digital Academe

    New Media in Higher Education and Learning

    This book responds to an ever-increasing call from educators, policy makers, journalists, parents and the public at large for analysis that cuts through the hype surrounding the information revolution to address key issues associated with new media in higher education and learning. This collection is of value to those who are seeking a critical, non-commercial exposition of both the enormous ... Read more

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  • The Governance of Cyberspace

    Politics, Technology and Global Restructuring

    Edited by Brian D Loader ...
    Issues of surveillance, control and privacy in relation to the internet are coming to the fore as a result of state concern with security, crime and economic advantage. Through an exploration of emerging debates regarding the possible desirability, form and agencies responsible for the regulation of the internet and an analysis of issues of surveillance, control, rights and privacy, The Governance ... Read more

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  • Cyberspace Divide

    Equality, Agency and Policy in the Information Society

    Edited by Brian D Loader ...
    The dramatic advances in computer and telecommunications technologies such as the Internet, virtual reality, smart cards or multimedia applications are increasingly regarded as ushering in a new form of society: the information society. Politicians, policy makers and business gurus are all encouraging us to join the information superhighway at the nearest junction or risk being excluded from the ... Read more

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  • Cyberculture: The Key Concepts

    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    The only A-Z guide available on this subject, this book provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the fast-changing and increasingly important world of cyberculture. Its clear and accessible entries cover aspects ranging from the technical to the theoretical, and from movies to the everyday, including:artificial intelligencecyberfeminismcyberpunkelectronic governmentgamesHTMLJavanetiquette ... Read more

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  • Social Media and Democracy

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    Edited by Brian D. Loader, Dan Mercea ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Political Communication
    This book critically investigates the complex interaction between social media and contemporary democratic politics, and provides a grounded analysis of the emerging importance of Social media in civic engagement.Social media applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, have increasingly been adopted by politicians, political activists and social movements as a means to engage, organize ... Read more

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  • Cybercrime

    Law enforcement, security and surveillance in the information age

    Cybercrime focuses on the growing concern about the use of electronic communication for criminal activities and the appropriateness of the countermeasures that are being adopted by law enforcement agencies, security services and legislators to address such anxieties. Fuelled by sensational media headlines and news coverage which has done much to encourage the belief that technologies like the ... Read more

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  • Young Citizens in the Digital Age

    Political Engagement, Young People and New Media

    Edited by Brian D. Loader ...
    A social anxiety currently pervades the political classes of the western world, arising from the perception that young people have become disaffected with liberal democratic politics. Voter turnout among 18-25 year olds continues to be lower than other age groups and they are less likely to join political parties. This is not, however, proof that young people are not interested in politics per se ... Read more

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