How the Internet Shapes Collective Actions

2015. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-43999-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 74 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 259 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schumann, S.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Entwicklungsstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Sandy Schumann is Affiliated Researcher at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Visiting Post-doctoral Researcher at the Oxford Centre for the Study of Intergroup Conflict, University of Oxford, UK. Her work explores the relation between digital practices and offline behavior, focusing in particular on dynamics of collective actions, as well as radicalization processes on the internet and the benefits of computer-mediated intergroup contact.