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Jeppesen (Lakehead Univ., Canada) dives into the online media ecosystem to explore a growing facet of its evolution and reach in the last 20 years: digital activism. Jeppesen highlights how social activists use digital technologies to pursue political goals and challenge some of today's most pernicious social ailments, including corrupt capitalism, racism, and gender oppression. Jeppesen's standpoint as an anarchist organizer and her use of participatory action research bolster her authorial voice and the evidence for her claims. Her intersectional analytical framework also aids Jeppesen in illustrating how various systems of oppression connect and how contemporary social movements attempt to disrupt them through digital technologies. This book offers keen insights into the ways that social movements deploy digital media strategically and the nature of the structural problems they seek to address. To this end, this book is a distinctive blend of critical analysis and participatory empirical research and makes a compelling case for engaged social activism through the various forms of media currently available. This book is a useful resource for social activists, community organizers, and media professionals and a must read for scholars and students in media studies, communications, critical cultural studies, and sociology. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and practitioners. --Wilfredo Alvarez, Utica University
Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
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