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Author Earl, Jennifer, 1974-

Title Digitally enabled social change : activism in the Internet age / Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport.

Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2011.

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 UniM INTERNET Resource    AVAILABLE
Physical description 1 online resource (viii, 258 pages) : illustrations
Series Acting with technology
Acting with technology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Where we have been and where we are headed -- The look and feel of e-tactics and their Web sites -- Tacking action on the cheap: costs and participation -- Making action on the cheap: costs and organizing -- Being together versus working together : copresence in participation -- From power in numbers to power laws: copresence in organizing -- A new digital repertoire of contention?
Summary In this work, Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport examine key characteristics of Web activism and investigate their impacts on organizing and participation.
Other author Kimport, Katrina, 1978-
Subject Internet -- Political aspects.
Online social networks -- Political aspects.
Social action.
Social movements.
Social change.
INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies
ISBN 9780262295352 (electronic bk.)
0262295350 (electronic bk.)
128311903X
9781283119030
9780262015103 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0262015102
9780262525060
0262525062