After a Facebook rebellion in Egypt and Twitter protests in Turkey, the internet has been proclaimed as a globe-shifting, revolutionizing force that can incite complex social phenomena such as collective actions. This book critically assesses this claim and highlights how internet use can shape mobilizing processes to foster collective actions.

Autorentext

Sandy Schumann is Affiliated Researcher at Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and Visiting Post-doctoral Researcher at the Oxford Centre for the Study of Intergroup Conflict, University of Oxford, UK. Her work explores the relation between digital practices and offline behavior, focusing in particular on dynamics of collective actions, as well as radicalization processes on the internet and the benefits of computer-mediated intergroup contact.

Inhalt
Introduction 1. How the Internet Promotes Self-organized Collective Actions 2. How Internet Use Incites Offline Collective Actions 3. The Internet as a Platform for Online Collective Actions 4. How Cause-related, Advocacy, and Social Movement Organizations Use the Internet to Promote Collective Actions 5. How the Internet Shapes Collective Actions in the Future