Includes bibliographical references and index.

Protest technologies and media revolutions in the Longue Durée / Athina Karatzogianni, Ioanna Ferra, and Michael Schandorf ? Part I: From the Russian Revolution to Post-Soviet Digital Activism and the New Cold War ? Art as a form of social action in the Russian Avant-garde (1905-1930) / Maria Tsantsanoglou ? Secret police and public sphere. The East German State Security Service ('Stasi') between media control and public relations / Sebastian Haller ? The russian dream and Victor Pelevin's Generation "(SS": Ideology in pPost-Soviet Russia / Angelos Theocharis ? Soviet communicative control: some implications on digital activism in contemporary Russia / Ilya Kiriya ? A comparative cyberconflict analysis of digital activism across Post-Soviet Countries / Athina Karatzogianni, Galina Miazhevich, and Anastasia Denisova ? Dis/engagement in Post-Soviet communicative ecologies: Re-framing the ?Chinatown? Dissent Campaign in Belarus / Galina Miazhevich ? Media in tooth and claw: ecologies of post-truth suasion in total (Culture) War / Michael Schandorf Part II: The Road to Occupy and its Influence ? Creating the collective: social media, the occupy movement and its constitution as a collective actor Anastasia Kavada ? Ground the drones: direct action and media activism / Kevin Howley ? Beyond social media determinism? How artists reshape the organization of Social Movements Alberto Cossu OPEN ACCESS ? The city is a work of art and everyone is an artist": collaborative protest art, participation and space reproduction at the 2014 Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement. / Georgios Patsiaouras ? A comparative study of the Delhi Nirbhaya Protests and the Occupy Nigeria Movement: evaluating uses of ICTs and Social Media / Adrija Dey and Shola Olabode ? From classical syndicalism to Spain's 15-M Movement / Cristina Flesher Fominaya ? The trials and tribulations of social media and transnational labour solidarity / Torsten Geelan and Andy Hodder ? The online communication strategies of a small-scale social movement: the case of the Greek ?Do Not Pay? Social Movement / Stamatis Poulakidakos, Anastasia Veneti, and Maria Rovisco ? The EU Referendums in the Twittersphere: #Grexit, #Brexit and the #Catalanreferendum / Ioanna Ferra and Dennis Nguyen -- The Geeks of the Squares: Agency, Control and Surveillance in Protest Movement Mediation Technologies / Athina Karatzogianni and Michael Schandorf.

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