| Critique of "liberation technology" paradigm Information1 #598960 "Extensive literature has emerged on the political function of new communication technologies...while drawing on this literature, we hope to temper its recalcitrant investment in the counter-hegemonic potential of social media..it was only later that scholars began to consider..the ways they have been employed by dictators & police states as public relations..tools for tracking..as means of counter-insurgency. A critique of the enduring liberation tehcnology paradigm frames our analysis" (p11) |
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