How the Internet Shapes Collective Actions

著者名：Schumann, S.

Palgrave Pivot（2014/12/02発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781137439994
• eISBN：9781137440006

Description

After a Facebook rebellion in Egypt and Twitter protests in Turkey, the internet has been proclaimed as a globe-shifting, revolutionizing force that can incite complex social phenomena such as collective actions. This book critically assesses this claim and highlights how internet use can shape mobilizing processes to foster collective actions.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. How the Internet Promotes Self-organized Collective Actions 2. How Internet Use Incites Offline Collective Actions 3. The Internet as a Platform for Online Collective Actions 4. How Cause-related, Advocacy, and Social Movement Organizations Use the Internet to Promote Collective Actions 5. How the Internet Shapes Collective Actions in the Future