Digitally Enabled Social Change

Author: Jennifer Earl
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0262015102
Publisher: The MIT Press
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Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age (Acting with Technology)

Much attention has been paid in recent years to the emergence of "Internet activism," but scholars and pundits disagree about whether online political activity is different in kind from more traditional forms of activism. Search and download computer ebooks Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age (Acting with Technology) for free.
Much attention has been paid in recent years to the emergence of "Internetactivism," but scholars and pundits disagree about whether online political activity isdifferent in kind from more traditional forms of activism. Does the global reach and blazing speedof the Internet affect the essential character or dynamics of online political protest? In Digitally Enabled Social Change , Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport examine keycharacteristics of web activism and investigate their impacts on organizing andparticipation. Earl and Kimport argue that the web offers two key affordancesrelevant to activism: sharply reduced costs for creating, organizing, and participating in protest;and the decreased need for activists to be physically together in order to act together. Drawing onevidence from samples of online petitions, boycotts, and letter-writing and e-mailing campaigns,Earl and Kimport show that the more these affordances are leveraged, the more transformative thechanges to organizing and participating in protest.. Download Digitally Enabled Social Change computer ebooks
Does the global reach and blazing speed of the Internet affect the essential character or dynamics of online political protest? In Digitally Enabled Social Change, Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport examine key characteristics of web activism and investigate their impacts on organizing and participation.Earl and Kimport argue that the web offers two key affordances relevant to activism: sharply reduced costs for creating, organizing, and participating in protest; and the decreased need for activists to be physically together

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author jennifer earl author katrina kimport format hardback language english publication year 01 04 2011 series acting with technology s subject politics government subject 2 politics general reference title digitally enabled social change activism in the internet age author earl jennifer kimport katrina publisher mit pr publication date mar 31 2011 pages 258 binding hardcover edition 1 st dimensions 6 25 wx 9 50 hx 1 00 d isbn 0262015102 subject computers internet general description an inves

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Earl and Kimport argue that the web offers two key affordances relevant to activism: sharply reduced costs for creating, organizing, and participating in protest; and the decreased need for activists to be physically together