This study is about new media, the crisis of democracy and political renewal. It asks: What is the political? How can we understand politics in a network age? Can we talk sensibly about generational change? Analysing four international case studies, this book gives an optimistic assessment of how digital media supports new forms of politics

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Judith Bessant is Professor at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia.

Inhalt

1. Introduction 2. Politics In the Age of the Digital 3. How The Light Gets In: Change and Continuity 4. Change and Generation 5. Coming of Age in a Digital Neo-liberal World: Generation and Politics 6. A Heuristic or Guiding Framework PART II: CASE STUDIES: IDENTIFYING POLITICAL CHANGE AND GENERATIONS 7. Democratic Renewal, Pussy Riot and Flash Gigs in the Kremlin 8. The Graduate's Future and Neoliberal Education: New Generation Politics on the Campus 9. The Stop Online Piracy Act Case 10. The Digital, Indigenous Art and Politics 11. Conclusion