@article{743763,
      recid = {743763},
      author = {Wolfson, Todd,},
      title = {Digital rebellion the birth of the cyber left /  [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (249 pages) :},
      abstract = {"Digital Rebellion examines the impact of new media and  communication technologies on the spatial, strategic, and  organizational fabric of social movements. Todd Wolfson  begins with the rise of the Zapatistas in the mid-1990s,  and how aspects of the movement--network organizational  structure, participatory democratic governance, and the use  of communication tools as a binding agent--became essential  parts of Indymedia and all Cyber Left organizations. From  there he uses oral interviews and other rich ethnographic  data to chart the media-based think tanks and experiments  that continued the Cyber Left's evolution through the  Independent Media Center's birth around the 1999 WTO  protests in Seattle. After examining the historical  antecedents and rise of the global Indymedia network,  Wolfson melds virtual and traditional ethnographic practice  to explore the Cyber Left's cultural logic, mapping the  social, spatial and communicative structure of the  Indymedia network and detailing its operations on the  local, national and global level. He also looks at the  participatory democracy that governs global social  movements and the ways the movement's twin ideologies,  democracy and decentralization, have come into tension, and  how what he calls the switchboard of struggle conducts  stories of shared struggle from the hyper-local and  dispersed worldwide. As Wolfson shows, understanding the  intersection of Indymedia and the Global Social Justice  Movement illuminates their foundational role in the Occupy  struggle, Arab Spring uprising, and the other emergent  movements that have in recent years re-energized radical  politics. "--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/743763},
}