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Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age

Author: Manuel Castells

Polity, Cambridge, 2012, pp. 200

Well known theorist of global networks examines the mass uprisings across the world in 2011, giving account of events in ‘Arab Spring’ and the reaction to the bank collapse and austerity policies in the west in Iceland, Spain, Greece and the USA, and stressing the causal role of the internet.