Description
Book SynopsisBegins 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.
Trade Review"Makes an original contribution through the depth of the empirical case studies of Cyber Left organization. . . . I cannot think of another book that puts so much of the story of the U.S. left's experiments with the creation of an 'electronic fabric of struggle' within a single volume. . . . The author's knowledge, thoughtfulness, and political passion is evident."--Nick Dyer-Witheford, author of
Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games"Combining the passion of an activist and the reasoned arguments of a scholar, Wolfson wonderfully details the emergence of the Cyber Left. In
Digital Rebellion he not only celebrates its political potential but also, and more importantly, provides a lucid critique of the forms it has taken thus far."--Michael Hardt, co-author of
Declaration and
Empire"A major contribution. . . . Eminently readable,
Digital Rebellion is a mixture of reporting and theory all designed to move beyond the horizontal-vertical duality and achieve a synthesis that draws from the best of both worlds."--
Counterpunch"The first book to chart the intellectual and technological history of the Indymedia network and to place that history within the theoretical debate about social movement organization and politics. This is an important chapter in contemporary social movement activism and Todd Wolfson does an excellent job charting the rise of the Independent Media Center and the theoretical implications of this model for left political organizing."--Andy Opel, author of
Preempting Dissent: The Politics of an Inevitable Future
