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Digitally Enabled Social Change Activism in the Internet Age

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ISBN-10: 0262525062

ISBN-13: 9780262525060

Edition: 2011

Authors: Jennifer Earl, Katrina Kimport, Kirsten A. Foot, Victor Kaptelinin, Bonnie A. Nardi

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Much attention has been paid in recent years to the emergence of "Internetactivism," but scholars and pundits disagree about whether online political activity isdifferent in kind from more traditional forms of activism. Does the global reach and blazing speedof the Internet affect the essential character or dynamics of online political protest? InDigitally Enabled Social Change, Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport examine keycharacteristics of web activism and investigate their impacts on organizing andparticipation.Earl and Kimport argue that the web offers two key affordancesrelevant to activism: sharply reduced costs for creating, organizing, and participating in protest;and the decreased…    
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Book details

List price: $24.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/16/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
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.

Kirsten A. Foot is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University ofWashington.

Victor Kaptelinin is Professor in the Department of Informatics at Ume� University, Sweden, and Professor in the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is coeditor of Beyond the Desktop Metaphor: Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments (MIT Press, 2007).

Bonnie Nardi is Professor in the Department of Informatics in the School of Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.