Dissent and Social Media: The Role of Social Media in Facilitating Cultural Change

The book considers the role social media platforms play in facilitating dissent as a function of cultural, and associated hegemonic, transformation. In this context, social media is one of the locations of dissenting practices used to interrogate and potentially change the dominant cultural discourse, and, therefore, our experience of everyday life. Dominant cultural discourse is both created and maintained in established social institutions such as the linguistic, educational, legal, polit...