Expect us :: online communities and political mobilization /

People use online social forums for all sorts of reasons, including political conversations, regardless of the site's main purpose. In Expect Us, Jessica L. Beyer looks at political consciousness and action in four communities, each born out of chaotic online social spaces that millions of indi...

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1. Verfasser: Beyer, Jessica Lucia
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Schriftenreihe:Oxford studies in digital politics.
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Zusammenfassung:People use online social forums for all sorts of reasons, including political conversations, regardless of the site's main purpose. In Expect Us, Jessica L. Beyer looks at political consciousness and action in four communities, each born out of chaotic online social spaces that millions of individuals enter, spend time in, and exit moment by moment: Anonymous (4chan), IGN, World of Warcraft, and The Pirate Bay. None of these sites began as places for political organization per se, but visitors to each have used them as places for political engagement to one degree or another. Beyer explains the puzzling emergence of political engagement in these disparate social spaces and offers reasons for their varied capacity to generate political activism. Her comparative ethnography of these four online communities demonstrates that the technological organization of space itself has a strong role in determining the possibility of political mobilization. Overall, she shows that political mobilization rises when a site provides high levels of anonymity, low levels of formal regulation, and minimal access to small-group interaction. Furthermore, her findings reveal that young people are more politically involved than much of the civic engagement literature suggests.
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199330775
0199330778
9780199395026
0199395020

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