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A review of the book "Social Movements and the Collective Identity of the Star Trek Fandom: Boldly Going Where No Fans Have Gone Before," by David G. LoConto, is presented.

A review of the book "Building Global Labor Solidarity: Lessons from the Philippines, South Africa, Northwestern Europe, and the United States," by Kim Scipes, is presented.

Regarding anti-Olympic activism, it is called for increased efforts to establish a global movement of anti-Olympic groups and strategic engagement with Olympic athletes. Indeed, this relates to what [6] dubs the "mega-event syndrome", as an idea which explains why mega-events tend to involve, I inter alia i , the overpromising of benefits (or "legacies"), the underestimation of event costs and public debt. The latter may be the reason why, over the past decades, global cities have become increasingly reluctant towards bidding for sport mega-events' hosting rights and the related costs, demands and risks that arrive with any successful Olympic hosting rights bid. [Extracted from the article]

Thompson, John B Book Wars: The Digital Revolution in Publishing. The book begins with the groping responses to the new digital technologies by old-style trade publishers and would-be challengers to the old publishing models and traditional book formats. [Extracted from the article]

The authors also note that digital activism gave rise to celebrity activists, which risk de-centering actual movement leadership while at the same time reflecting the mainstream media's fundamental misunderstanding of social movements. Jackson, Bailey, and Foucault Welles roundly reject the idea that #HashtagActivism is "merely" slacktivism. [Extracted from the article]

But Hardt and Negri also overlook something that organization scholars have been stressing for years: the relationship between strategy and history (see, e.g., [7]). The socialization thesis found in Hardt and Negri pervades much of academic Marxism today, including within critical management studies. Second, even if Hardt and Negri's socialization thesis were empirically sound, it still runs the risk of historical inevitability. [Extracted from the article]

In her book, Kucinskas answers these questions with a thorough and critical examination of the contemplative movement, an elite social movement centered on silent prayer and personal spiritual development. Kucinskas also acknowledges that Buddhism is infused into the broader American cultures through social movements - the process within which people challenge an established authority through collective and communal efforts - but that this completive movement is initiated and sustained by elites. [Extracted from the article]