Digitally Enabled Social Change Activism in the Internet Age

Name: Digitally Enabled Social Change Activism in the Internet Age
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ISBN: 9780262015103

ISBN-10: 0262015102

ISBN-13: 9780262015103

Edition: 2011

Authors: Jennifer Earl, Katrina Kimport

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Much attention has been paid in recent years to the emergence of "Internet activism," but scholars and pundits disagree over 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? In Digitally 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…

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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/4/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

Katrina Kimport is Assistant Professor with ANSIRH, a program of the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco.



Acknowledgments






Introduction



Where We Have Been and Where We Are Headed



The Look and Feel of E-tactics and Their Web Sites



Leveraging Low Costs Online



Taking Action on the Cheap: Costs and Participation



Making Action on the Cheap: Costs and Organizing



From Copresence to Coordination



Being Together versus Working Together: Copresence in Participation



From Power in Numbers to Power Laws: Copresence in Organizing






A New Digital Repertoire of Contention?



Conclusion


Methodological Appendix


Notes


Glossary


References


Index