How the Internet Shapes Collective Actions
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 a
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137440006.0001
Palgrave Studies in Cyberpsychology Series Editor: Jens Binder, Nottingham Trent University, UK Titles include Sandy Schumann HOW THE INTERNET SHAPES COLLECTIVE ACTIONS John Waterworth and Giuseppe Riva FEELING PRESENT IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD AND COMPUTERMEDIATED ENVIRONMENTS Christian Happ and André Melzer EMPATHY AND VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137440006.0001
How the Internet Shapes Collective Actions Sandy Schumann University of Oxford, UK Wiener-Anspach Foundation, Belgium Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
DOI: 10.1057/9781137440006.0001
© Sandy Schumann 2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-43999-4
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction Scope
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