系列：亚洲数字媒体和文化的Routledge研究
这本书探讨了发展中国家日益高涨的数字行动主义浪潮的原因，认为它是由社会变革驱动的，而不仅仅是技术进步。本书从调查“中等收入国家”的现代化及其对政治文化的影响开始，考察了印度尼西亚政治争议期间的大规模社交媒体抗议活动。
这本书将经验证据与价值变化和政治行为的经典理论联系起来。它脱离了一个狭窄的“数字鸿沟”框架，即互联网接入产生互联网行动主义。它引入了“数字自我表达”和“中产阶级斗争”的概念，以捕捉网络领域政治参与的价值分层性质。借助“大数据”文本分析、代表性意见研究和社会经济家庭分析的结合，数字行动主义的决定因素呈现出丰富的画面。
这本真正跨学科的书将特别吸引政治学、社会学、国际发展和传播学的学生和学者，也吸引渴望从全球角度了解政治行动主义、社会转型和新媒体的任何人。
Digital Activism and the Global Middle Class: Generation Hashtag
Series: Routledge Research in Digital Media and Culture in Asia
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 modernization of ‘middle-income countries’ and its ramifications for political culture, the book examines large-scale social media protest during political controversies in Indonesia.
The book connects empirical evidence to classic theories of value change and political behaviour. It departs from a narrow ‘digital divide’ framing whereby Internet access produces Internet activism. It 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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