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.
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Internet -- Political aspects. Online social networks -- Political aspects. Social action. Social movements. Social change.