The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics

by W. Lance Bennett and Alexandra Segerberg

Book Overview

The Logic of Connective Action explains the rise of a personalized digitally networked politics in which diverse individuals address the common problems of our times such as economic fairness and climate change. Rich case studies from the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany illustrate a theoretical framework for understanding how large-scale connective action is coordinated. In many of these mobilizations, communication operates as an organizational...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107642728
• ISBN13: 9781107642720
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"