ISBN:
9780415943208
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (320 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Cyberactivism : Online Activism in Theory and Practice
DDC:
303.48/33
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This collection examines the growing importance of online activism. The contributors show how online activists have not only incorporated recent technology as a tool for change, but also how they have changed the meaning of activism, what community means, and how they conceive of collective identity and democratic change
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I CYBER-SOCIAL MOVEMENTS EMERGING ONLINE; 1. Internet Protests, from Text to Web; 2. Indymedia.org: A New Communications Commons; 3. Classifying Forms of Online Activism: The Case of Cyberprotests against the World Bank; 4. The Radicalization of Zeke Spier: How the Internet Contributes to Civic Engagement and New Forms of Social Capital; PART II THEORIZING ONLINE ACTIVISM; 5. Democracy, New Social Movements, and the Internet: A Habermasian Analysis; 6. Comparing Collective Identity in Online and Offline Feminist Activists
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Mapping Networks of Support for the Zapatista Movement: Applying Social-Networks Analysis to Study Contemporary Social Movements8. Identifying with Information: Citizen Empowerment, the Internet, and the Environmental Anti-Toxins Movement; PART III CAUTIONARY READINGS OF COMMUNITY, EMPOWERMENT, AND CAPITALISM ONLINE; 9. Wiring Human Rights Activism: Amnesty International and the Challenges of Information and Communication Technologies; 10. Ethnic Online Communities: Between Profit and Purpose
Description / Table of Contents:
11. Gay Media, Inc.: Media Structures, the New Gay Conglomerates, and Collective Sexual IdentitiesEpilogue: Current Directions and Future Questions; About the Contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
