Digitally Enabled Social Change : Activism in the Internet Age.
Earl, Jennifer.
Digitally Enabled Social Change : Activism in the Internet Age. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (267 pages) - Acting with Technology Series . - Acting with Technology Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Where We Have Been and Where We Are Headed -- 3 The Look and Feel of E-tactics and Their Web Sites -- II Leveraging Low Costs Online -- 4 Taking Action on the Cheap -- 5 Making Action on the Cheap -- III From Copresence to Coordination -- 6 Being Together versus Working Together -- 7 From Power in Numbers to Power Laws -- IV -- 8 A New Digital Repertoire of Contention? -- 9 Conclusion -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
An investigation into how specific Web technologies can change the dynamics of organizing and participating in political and social protest.
9780262295352
Internet -- Political aspects.
Online social networks -- Political aspects.
Social action.
Social movements.
Social change.
Electronic books.
HM851 -- .E23 2011eb
303.48/40285
Digitally Enabled Social Change : Activism in the Internet Age. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (267 pages) - Acting with Technology Series . - Acting with Technology Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- I -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Where We Have Been and Where We Are Headed -- 3 The Look and Feel of E-tactics and Their Web Sites -- II Leveraging Low Costs Online -- 4 Taking Action on the Cheap -- 5 Making Action on the Cheap -- III From Copresence to Coordination -- 6 Being Together versus Working Together -- 7 From Power in Numbers to Power Laws -- IV -- 8 A New Digital Repertoire of Contention? -- 9 Conclusion -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
An investigation into how specific Web technologies can change the dynamics of organizing and participating in political and social protest.
9780262295352
Internet -- Political aspects.
Online social networks -- Political aspects.
Social action.
Social movements.
Social change.
Electronic books.
HM851 -- .E23 2011eb
303.48/40285