Cyberactivism : online activism in theory and practice /

Cyberactivism : online activism in theory and practice / edited by Martha McCaughey and Michael D. Ayers. - New York : Routledge, 2003. - vii, 310 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Internet protests, from text to web / Laura J. Gurak and John Logie -- Indymedia.org : a new communications commons / Dorothy Kidd -- Classifying forms of online activism : the case of cyberprotests against the World Bank / Sandor Vegh -- The radicalization of Zeke Spier : how the Internet contributes to civic engagement and new forms of social capital / Larry Elin -- Democracy, new social movements, and the Internet : a Habermasian analysis / Lee Salter -- Comparing collective identity in online and offline feminist activists / Michael D. Ayers -- Mapping networks of support for the Zapatista movement : applying social-networks analysis to study contemporay social movements / Maria Garrido and Alexander Halavais -- Identifying with information : citizen empowerment, the Internet, and the environmental anti-toxins movement / Wyatt Galusky -- Wiring human rights activism : Amnesty International and the challenges of information and communication technologies / Joanne Lebert -- Ethnic online communities : between profit and purpose / Steven McLaine -- Gay Media, Inc. : media structures, the new gay conglomerates, and collective sexual identities / Joshua Gamson -- Epilogue : Current directions and future questions / David Silver.

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Social movements.
Protest movements.
Social action.
Internet--Social aspects.
Internet--Political aspects.
Activisme.
Internet.
Engagement.
Internet--Aspect social.
Internet--Aspect politique.
Mouvements sociaux.
Contestation.
Action sociale.

HM 851 / C994 2003

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