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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Jessica Lucia Beyer |
ISBN: | 9780199330768 019933076X 9780199330751 0199330751 |
OCLC Number: | 900443223 |
Notes: | 40023929647 |
Description: | xvi, 197 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Online communities and political mobilization -- Anonymous : carnival to mobilization -- The pirate bay : contribution to mobilization -- World of warcraft : cooperation without mobilization -- Ign.com : conversation without mobilization -- Expect them -- Appendix : research methodology |
Series Title: | Oxford studies in digital politics |
Responsibility: | Jessica L. Beyer |
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In Expect Us, Beyer's remarkably rich empirical research on online spaces and groups turns conventional thinking about what generates protest on its head. Most social movement scholars assume that close, personal, and long-term relationships are necessary for high-cost activism. But Beyer shows that online, anonymous spaces can actually be far more supportive of high-cost activism and that online spaces that facilitate close, personal relationships actuallydecrease the likelihood of activism. Contrary to many scholars' assumptions that entertainment-based media uses are corrosive to political participation, Beyer shows that a large amount of political talk and notable political action can develop from entertainment-focused spaces. This book is a must read forscholars of online activism and contemporary activism more generally. Expect Us should radically change how we think about the origins of protest in a networked society. * Jennifer Earl, Prof. of Sociology, Univ. of Arizona * Read more...


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