<p>Preface 2015 ix</p> <p>Acknowledgments 2012 xiv</p> <p>Opening: Networking Minds, Creating Meaning, Contesting Power 1</p> <p>Prelude to Revolution: Where it All Started 20</p> <p>Tunisia: “The Revolution of Liberty and Dignity” 22</p> <p>Iceland’s Kitchenware Revolution: From financial collapse to crowdsourcing a new (failed) constitution 31</p> <p>Southern wind, northern wind: Cross-cultural levers of social change 45</p> <p>The Egyptian Revolution 54</p> <p>Space of flows and space of places in the Egyptian Revolution 57</p> <p>State’s response to an Internet-facilitated revolution: The great disconnection 62</p> <p>Who were the protesters, and what was the protest? 67</p> <p>Women in revolution 71</p> <p>The Islamic question 74</p> <p>“The revolution will continue” 77</p> <p>Understanding the Egyptian Revolution 79</p> <p>Dignity, Violence, Geopolitics: The Arab Uprising and Its Demise 95</p> <p>Violence and the state 99</p> <p>A digital revolution? 105</p> <p>Post-Scriptum 2014 109</p> <p>A Rhizomatic Revolution: Indignadas in Spain 113</p> <p>A self-mediated movement 119</p> <p>What did/do the indignadas want? 125</p> <p>The discourse of the movement 128</p> <p>Reinventing democracy in practice: An assemblyled, leaderless movement 131</p> <p>From deliberation to action: The question of violence 136</p> <p>A political movement against the political system 139</p> <p>A rhizomatic revolution 143</p> <p>Occupy Wall Street: Harvesting the Salt of the Earth 159</p> <p>The outrage, the thunder, the spark 159</p> <p>The prairie on fire 165</p> <p>A networked movement 174</p> <p>Direct democracy in practice 181</p> <p>A non-demand movement: “The process is the message” 187</p> <p>Violence against a non-violent movement 191</p> <p>What did the movement achieve? 194</p> <p>The salt of the Earth 200</p> <p>Networked Social Movements: A Global Trend? 220</p> <p>Overview 220</p> <p>The clash between old and new Turkey, Gezi Park, June 2013 227</p> <p>Challenging the development model, denouncing political corruption: Brazil, 2013–14 230</p> <p>Beyond neoliberalism: Student movement in Chile, 2011–13 237</p> <p>Undoing the media-state complex: Mexico’s #YoSoy132 239</p> <p>Networked social movements and social protests 242</p> <p>Changing the World in the Network Society 246</p> <p>Networked social movements: An emerging pattern 249</p> <p>Internet and the culture of autonomy 256</p> <p>Networked social movements and reform politics: An impossible love? 262</p> <p>Networked Social Movements and Political Change 272</p> <p>Overview 272</p> <p>Crisis of legitimacy and political change: A global perspective 274</p> <p>Challenging the failure of Italian parliamentary democracy from the inside: Beppe Grillo and his<br />Five Stars Movement 277</p> <p>The effects of networked social movements on the political system 284</p> <p>Occupying minds, not the state: Post-Occupy blues in the US 284</p> <p>The streets, the Presidenta, and the would-be Presidenta: Popular protests and presidential<br />elections in Brazil 286</p> <p>The political schizophrenia of Turkish society: Secular movements and Islamist politics 294</p> <p>Reinventing politics, upsetting bipartisan hegemony: Podemos in Spain 296</p> <p>Levers of political change? 308</p> <p>Beyond Outrage, Hope: The Life and Death of Networked Social Movements 314</p> <p>Appendix to Changing the World in the Network Society 317</p> <p>Public opinion in selected countries toward Occupy and similar movements 317</p> <p>Attitudes of citizens toward governments, political and financial institutions in the United States,<br />European Union, and the world at large 318</p> <p>Preface 2015</p>