Digitally enabled social change: activism in the Internet age

✍ Scribed by Earl, Jennifer;Kimport, Katrina

Publisher: MIT Press
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 267
Series: Acting with technology
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

An investigation into how specific Web technologies can change the dynamics of organizing and participating in political and social protest.

Much attention has been paid in recent years to the emergence of "Internet activism," but scholars and pundits disagree about whether online political activity is different in kind from more traditional forms of activism. Does the global reach and blazing speed of the Internet affect the essential character or dynamics of online political protest? InDigitally Enabled Social Change, Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport examine key characteristics of web activism and investigate their impacts on organizing and participation.

Earl and Kimport argue that the web offers two key affordances relevant to activism: sharply reduced costs for creating, organizing, and participating in protest; and the decreased need for activists to be physically together in order to act together. Drawing on evidence from samples of online petitions, boycotts, and letter-writing and e-mailing campaigns, Earl and Kimport show that the more these affordances are leveraged, the more transformative the changes to organizing and participating in protest.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
I......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 12
2 Where We Have Been and Where We Are Headed......Page 30
3 The Look and Feel of E-tactics and Their Web Sites......Page 52
II Leveraging Low Costs Online......Page 72
4 Taking Action on the Cheap......Page 74
5 Making Action on the Cheap......Page 108
III From Copresence to Coordination......Page 130
6 Being Together versus Working Together......Page 132
7 From Power in Numbers to Power Laws......Page 156
IV......Page 184
8 A New Digital Repertoire of Contention?......Page 186
9 Conclusion......Page 202
Methodological Appendix......Page 216
Notes......Page 232
Glossary......Page 242
References......Page 244
Index......Page 260

✦ Subjects

Social Issues;Activism

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