基本説明
Highlights how online networking offers potential for new forms of activist mobilizing, repertoires, participatory democracy, direct action, fundaraising, and civic engagement.
Full Description
This book highlights how online networking offers potential for new forms of activist mobilizing, repertoires, participatory democracy, direct action, fundraising, and civic engagement. It calls for a re-conceptualization of some of the main tenets of contentious and electoral politics, which were originally constructed to describe and analyze face-to-face forms of mobilization, in order to more accurately analyze contemporary forms of protest, electoral processes, and civil society organizing.
Contents
Introduction 1. Overview of Social Movement Theories and a Proposed Synthesis 2. Students Against Sweatshops and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Anti-Nike Campaign 3. Contentious Politics, Cyberactivism, and Electoral Reform: The Reemergence of the Peace Movement Post 9-11 4. MoveOn.org and the Digital Revolution 5. The 2008 Presidential Election and Youth Activism: Digital Technologies as Grassroots Empowerment or Elite Control? Conclusion
