1st Edition
Social Media Frenzies Digitalized Agitation and Social Change
By Diana Stypinska
Copyright 2026
110 Pages
by
Routledge
110 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the relation between agitation and social change in the digital context. Focusing on the phenomenon commonly referred to as social media storms, it conceptualizes digitalized agitation, reflecting upon its transformative potential and socio-political effects.
Situating its analysis within the occidental context, the book firstly elaborates on the modern... Read more
Introduction: Storming (the) Within – Agitation in the Digital Age 1. (Dis)Contents of Agitation 2. (Im)Moral Outrage: Unpacking Media Frenzies 3. Digital Agitation and (Re)Activism Conclusion: In the Glare of the Noisy Majorities
Biography
Diana Stypinska is Lecturer in Social Theory in the School of Political Science and Sociology at University of Galway. Her work traverses critical theory, continental philosophy, and critical sociology. She is the author of On the Genealogy of Critique: Or How We Have Become Decadently Indignant (2020) and Social Media, Truth and the Care of the Self: On the Digital Technologies of the Subject (2022).
