Challenging Codes: Collective Action in the Information Age
Abstract
In Challenging Codes Melucci brings an original perspective to research on collective action which both emphasizes the role of culture and makes telling connections with the experience of the individual in postmodern society. The focus is on the role of information in an age which knows both fragmentation and globalisation, building on the analysis of collective action familiar from the author's Nomads of the Present. Melucci addresses a wide range of contemporary issues, including political conflict and change, feminism, ecology, identity politics, power and inequality.
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Nguyen, T., Kaviani, D., & Salehi, N. (2025) · Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems · doi:10.1145/3706598.3714192 · Cited by 13 · see citing works
Calvo, D., Barbas, Á., & Haro-Barba, C. (2022) · Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies · doi:10.1080/14636204.2022.2107817 · Cited by 2 · see citing works
- Authors
- Melucci, A.
- Affiliations
- University of Milan (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Melucci, Alberto
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1996-09-12
- OpenAlex
- W947539452
- Cited by
- 1,976
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 37.81
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social and Cultural Studies
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Movements and Cultural Identity
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Keywords
- collective action, culture, information, postmodern society, fragmentation, globalization, political conflict, feminism, ecology, identity politics, power and inequality
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