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Michael Y. Dartnell, Insurgency Online: Web Activism and Global Conflict (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2006)
WHAT IS MEANT by the claim that politics increasingly speaks with an "Internet accent"? The title of Dartnell's book provides a good indication of the answer. According to Dartnell we are entering an era in which the Internet is becoming the media of choice, if not necessity, for marginalized non-state actors challenging the historical grip that states have had on the media and publicity. The results are potentially immense. States, claims Dartnell, are increasingly losing their control over their borders, territories, and identities.
Theoretically speaking the implications are also significant. This is particularly true of international relations realist theory which argues that "states and the principle of sovereignty shape the international system and provide a structure to contain the chaos of human diversity." (13) Today, Dartnell contends we are entering a post-realist era in which non-state actors are, by means of the World Wide Web (www), able to produce and distribute information, thus providing a means of independently shaping public... |
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