Digital, Political, Radical is a siren call to the field of media and
communications and the study of social and political movements. We must
put the politics of transformation at the very heart of our analyses to
meet the global challenges of gross inequality and ever-more
impoverished democracies.
Fenton makes an impassioned plea for re-invigorating critical research
on digital media such that it can be explanatory, practical and
normative. She dares us to be politically emboldened. She urges us to
seek out an emancipatory politics that aims to deepen our democratic
horizons. To ask: how can we do democracy better? What are the
conditions required to live together well? Then, what is the role of the
media and how can we reclaim media, power and politics for progressive
ends? Journeying through a range of protest and political movements,
Fenton debunks myths of digital media along the way and points us in the
direction of newly emergent politics of the Left.
Digital, Political, Radical contributes to political debate on
contemporary (re)configurations of radical progressive politics through
a consideration of how we experience (counter) politics in the digital
age and how this may influence our being political.
