Digital, Political, Radical is a siren call to the field of media and
communications and the study of social and political movements. We must put the
politics of transformation at the very heart of our analyses to meet the global
challenges of gross inequality and ever-more impoverished democracies.
Fenton makes an impassioned plea for re-invigorating critical research on
digital media such that it can be explanatory, practical and normative. She
dares us to be politically emboldened. She urges us to seek out an emancipatory
politics that aims to deepen our democratic horizons. To ask, how can we do
democracy better? What are the conditions required to