Imagined Networks. Media and the Organisation Metaphors of Collective Actions

This chapter, by Marco Binotto and Federica Ferrari, intends to analyse this identity practice, the link between the image of the networks as illustration and prefiguration of horizontal, de-centered, fragmented movements and the ideological contour of a society built around this metaphor. It also aims to define the connection that exists between communication technologies used to build organisational forms of contemporary social movements, and the configuration that shapes these collective actions.