Wired and Mobilizing

Social Movements, New Technology, and Electoral Politics
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-415-88070-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 120 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carty, Victoria

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Victoria Carty is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Chapman University.