Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age

by Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport

Book Overview

An investigation into how specific Web technologies can change the dynamics of organizing and participating in political and social protest. 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. Does the global reach and blazing speed of the Internet affect the essential character or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262015102
• ISBN13: 9780262015103
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"