Michael D. Ayers / Martha McCaughey (eds.)

Cyberactivism

Online Activism in Theory and Practice
Herausgeber: Mccaughey, Martha; Ayers, Michael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 164mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780415943192
• ISBN-10: 0415943191
• Artikelnr.: 21731718

Autorenporträt

Martha McCaughey is Associate Professor and Director of Women's Studies in the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Tech. Mike Ayers is a doctorial student in Sociology at the New School for Social Research.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Introduction Cyber-Social Movements Emerging Online 1.
Internet Protests, from Text to Web 2. Indymedia.org: A New Communication
Commons 3. Classifying Forms of Online Activism: the Case of Cyberprotests
Against the World Bank 4. The Radicalization of Zek Speir: How the Internet
Contributes to Civic Engagement and New Forms of Social Capital Theorizing
Online Activism 5. Democracy, New Social Movements, and the Internet: A
Habermasian Analysis 6. Comparing Collective Identity in Onlien and Offline
Feminist Acivists 7. Mapping Networks of Support for Zapatista Movement:
Applying Social Networks Analysis to Study Cotemporary Social Movements 8.
Identifying with Information: Citizen Empowerment, the Internet, and the
Environmental Anti-Toxins Movement 9. Wiring human-Rights Activism: Amnesty
International and the Challenges of Information and Communication
Technologies 10. Ethic Online Communities: Between Profit and Purpose 11.
Gay Media, Inc.: Media Structures, The New Gay conglomerates, and
Collective Sexual Identities Epilogue Current Directions and Future
Questions Subject: Philosophy; General Interest; History; Cultural Studies