Description
Book SynopsisIn The Future of Change, Ray Brescia identifies a series of social innovation moments in American history. Through these momentsduring which social movements have embraced advances in communications technologieshe illuminates the complicated, dangerous, innovative, and exciting relationship between these technologies, social movements, and social change. Brescia shows that, almost without fail, developments in how we communicate shape social movements, just as those movements change the very technologies themselves.
From the printing press to the television, social movements have leveraged communications technologies to advance change. In this moment of rapidly evolving communications, it''s imperative to assess the role that the Internet, mobile devices, and social media can play in promoting social justice. But first we must look to the past, to examples of movements throughout American history that successfully harnessed communications technology, thus facilitating p
Trade Review
Brescia offers an impressive overview of 'social innovation moments. in American history. The final result is a successful articulation of a progressive message.
* Choice *
[In] The Future of Change, Brescia provides a highly useful framework for future activists, one that enjoins them to embrace new technologies but not to presume their use alone to be sufficient to enact progressive change.
* TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
1. Medium
2. Network
3. Message
4. The Great Divide
5. Digital Organizing
6. Amending the Violence against Women Act
7. Marriage Equality in Maine
8. A Living Wage in Long Beach
9. Putting the Matrix to Work
