Beyond Slacktivism Political Participation on Social Media
Beyond Slacktivism examines how routine social media use shapes political participation. Many commentators have argued that activism has been compromised by “slacktivism,” a pejorative term that refers to supposedly inauthentic, low-threshold forms of eng
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Winner of the American Political Science Association Information Technology and Politics Section Best Dissertation Award, 2017
Beyond Slacktivism Political Participation on Social Media
James Dennis
Interest Groups, Advocacy and Democracy Series Series Editor Darren Halpin Research School of Social Sciences Australian National University Canberra, Australia
The study of interest groups and their role in political life has undergone somewhat of a renaissance in recent years. Long standing scholarly themes such as interest groups influence mobilization, formation, and ‘bias’, are being addressed using new and novel data sets and methods. There are also new and exciting themes, such as the role of ICTs in enabling collective action and the growth of global advocacy networks, are being added. Contemporary debates about the role of commercial lobbyists and professionalized interest representation are also highly salient. Together, they draw an ever larger and broader constituency to the study of interest groups and advocacy. This series seeks to capture both new generation studies addressing long standing themes in new ways and innovate scholarship posing new and challenging questions that emerge in a rapidly changing world. The series encourages contributions from political science (but also abutting disciplines such as economics, law, history, international relations and sociology) that speak to these themes. It welcomes work undertaken at the level of sub-national, national and supra-national political systems, and particularly encourages comparative or longitudinal studies. The series is open to diverse methodologies and theoretical approaches. The book series will sit alongside and complement the Interest Groups & Advocacy journal. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14850
James Dennis
Beyond Slacktivism Political Participation on Social Media
James Dennis Film, Media and Communication University of Portsmouth Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK
Interest Groups, Advocacy and Democracy Series ISBN 978-3-030-00843-7 ISBN 978-3-030-00844-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00844-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018956584 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and re
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