Wired and Mobilizing: Social Movements, New Technology, and Electoral Politics

by Carty; Victoria

• ISBN13: 9780415880701
• ISBN10: 041588070X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-07-06
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book highlights how online networking offers potential for new forms of activist mobilizing, repertoires, participatory democracy, direct action, fundraising, and civic engagement. It calls for a re-conceptualization of some of the main tenets of contentious and electoral politics, which were originally constructed to describe and analyze face-to-face forms of mobilization, in order to more accurately analyze contemporary forms of protest, electoral processes, and civil society organizing.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgment	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Overview of Social Movement Theories and a Proposed Synthesis	p. 7
Students Against Sweatshops and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Anti-Nike Campaign	p. 20
Contentious Politics, Cyberactivism, and Electoral Reform: The Reemergence of the Peace Movement Post 9-11	p. 41
MoveOn.org and the Digital Revolution	p. 57
The 2008 US Presidential Election and Youth Activism: Digital Technologies as Grassroots Empowerment or Elite Control?	p. 74
Conclusion	p. 90
References	p. 93
Index	p. 109
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