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.
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"Many people regard the present as a lull in political activism, certainly from the Left, although the Tea Party movement suggests that right-wing social movements are alive and well. This book challenges that assumption and suggests that the focus for organization has shifted to the Internet." -Highly Recommended in CHOICE. Review by Y. R. Magrass, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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Verlagsort
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Illustrationen
2 s/w Abbildungen, 2 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 3 s/w Tabellen
3 Tables, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 7 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-415-81103-3 (9780415811033)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Victoria Carty is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Chapman University.
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Chapman University, USA
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
