Digital activism decoded : the new mechanics of change / Mary Joyce, editor.
"The media has recently been abuzz with cases of citizens around the world using digital technologies to push for social and political change: from the use of Twitter to amplify protests in Iran and Moldova to the thousands of American non-profits creating Facebook accounts in the hopes of luri...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: How to think about digital activism / Mary Joyce
- Infrastructure: its transformations and effect on digital activism / Trebor Scholz
- Applications: picking the right one in a transient world / Dan Schultz and Andreas Jungherr
- Devices: the power of mobile phones / Brannon Cullum
- Economic and social factors: the digital (activism) divide / Katharine Brodock
- Political factors: digital activism in closed and open societies / Tom Glaisyer
- Activism transforms digital: the social movement perspective / Anastasia Kavada
- Digital transforms activism: the web ecology perspective / Tim Hwang
- Destructive activism: the double-edged sword of digital tactics / Steven Murdoch
- Measuring the success of digital campaigns / Dave Karpf
- The new casualties: prisons and persecution / Simon Columbus
- Digital politics as usual / Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
- The future of advocacy in a networked age / Sem Devillart and Brian Waniewski
- Conclusion: Building the future of digital activism / Mary Joyce
- Glossary / Talia Whyte and Mary Joyce.