Piotr Wciślik is Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has published extensively on the history of dissident political thought and dissident media, and is currently developing a data-driven approach in that area.

• Introduction: Dissident Imaginaries, Samizdat Social Media, and the Hirschman Question Part 1: Introducing Samizdat Social Media 1. Imaginaries and Practices of Samizdat Social Media 2. The Fate of Free Word Depends on Ourselves. The Origins of Dissident Social Media Activism Part 2: Solidarity Media Matters 3. Democracy as Oversight. The Trade Union and its Press 4. Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Trade Union Press between Social Media and Surrogate Mass Media 5. Indivisible are the Principles which Orient our Actions. Trade Union Press in Proceedings of Solidarity’s First National Congress Part 3: The Underground Society 6. Dissident Social Media during and after the Martial Law 7. Political Economy of Unlicensed Publishing Part 4: Lost in Transition 8. Crisis and Compromise 9. The Exceptional Moment of Dissident Politics 10. The Margin of Liberty Conclusion

Piotr Wciślik is Assistant Professor and Deputy Director of the Digital Humanities Centre at the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has published extensively on the history of dissident political thought and dissident media, and is currently developing a data-driven approach in that area.

• Introduction: Dissident Imaginaries, Samizdat Social Media, and the Hirschman Question Part 1: Introducing Samizdat Social Media 1. Imaginaries and Practices of Samizdat Social Media 2. The Fate of Free Word Depends on Ourselves. The Origins of Dissident Social Media Activism Part 2: Solidarity Media Matters 3. Democracy as Oversight. The Trade Union and its Press 4. Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes? Trade Union Press between Social Media and Surrogate Mass Media 5. Indivisible are the Principles which Orient our Actions. Trade Union Press in Proceedings of Solidarity’s First National Congress Part 3: The Underground Society 6. Dissident Social Media during and after the Martial Law 7. Political Economy of Unlicensed Publishing Part 4: Lost in Transition 8. Crisis and Compromise 9. The Exceptional Moment of Dissident Politics 10. The Margin of Liberty Conclusion