How the internet shapes collective actions / Sandy Schumann

Bib ID:
8661580
Format:
Book
Author:
Schumann, Sandy, author
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Description:
  • Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
  • ©2015
  • 1 online resource (viii, 74 pages.) :
ISBN:
  • 9781137440006
  • 1137440007
Invalid ISBN:
  • 1137439998
  • 9781137439994
Series:
  • Palgrave pivot.
  • Palgrave studies in cyberpsychology.
Full contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. How the Internet Promotes Self-organized Collective Actions
  • Towards a definition of collective actions
  • Group-brokered collective actions
  • Crowd-enabled collective actions
  • Take home message
  • 2. How Internet Use Incites Offline Collective Actions
  • Using the Internet to access information
  • Empowerment, knowledge, and interest
  • Identity formation and agenda setting
  • From information to (inter)actions
  • Weak ties
  • Forming, strengthening, and politicizing group identities
  • Take home message
  • 3. The Internet as a Platform for Online Collective Actions
  • Patterns of Internet-based collective actions
  • The challenge or opportunity of slacktivism
  • Take home message
  • 4. How Cause-related, Advocacy, and Social Movement Organizations Use the Internet to Promote Collective Actions
  • Digital mobilizing practices
  • The supporters' perspective
  • Take home message
  • 5. How the Internet Shapes Collective Actions in the Future
  • Conclusion
  • Outlook.
Notes:
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Description based on print version record.
Reproduction:
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
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