The Revolution That Wasn’t : : How Digital Activism Favors Conservatives / / Jen Schradie.

In this counterintuitive study of digital democracy, Jen Schradie shows how the web has become another weapon in the arsenal of the powerful, and a potent weapon for conservative activists. Rather than leveling the playing field, the internet has tilted it in favor of the Right, where only the most...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: The False Promise of Digital Activism
  • Introduction: Public Unions, Patriots, and the Battle for the Internet
  • Chapter One. The Great Class Wedge and the Internet’s Hidden Costs
  • Chapter Two. Bureaucracy’s Revenge and the Organization of Digital Activism
  • Chapter Three. The Right’s Digital Evangelism and Its Boots on the Ground
  • Chapter Four. The Left’s Radical Fairness and Its Muted Online Bullhorn
  • Conclusion: The Digital Activism Gap’s Threat to Democracy
  • Methodological Appendix
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index