Victoria Carty

Wired and Mobilizing

Social Movements, New Technology, and Electoral Politics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 159mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 329g
• ISBN-13: 9780415880701
• ISBN-10: 041588070X
• Artikelnr.: 31080878

Autorenporträt

Victoria Carty is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Chapman University.

Inhaltsangabe

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