Digital Activism and the Global Middle Class: Generation Hashtag by Lukas Schlogl (9781000603026)

Description - Digital Activism and the Global Middle Class: Generation Hashtag by Lukas Schlogl

This book examines the causes of a growing wave of digital activism across developing countries, arguing that it is driven by social change, rather than technological advancement alone
Beginning with an investigation into the modernisation of ‘middle-income countries’ and its ramifications for political culture, the book examines large-scale social media protest during political controversies in Indonesia
It departs from a narrow ‘digital divide’ framing whereby Internet access produces Internet activism and introduces the concepts of ‘digital self-expression’ and of ‘middle-class struggles’ to capture the value-stratified nature of political engagement in the online sphere
Drawing on a blend of ‘big-data’ text analyses, representative opinion research and socioeconomic household analyses, a rich picture of the determinants of digital activism emerges
This truly cross-disciplinary book will appeal particularly to students and scholars in Political Science, Sociology, International Development, and Communication, but also to anyone eager to learn about political activism, social transformation, and new media from a global perspective

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