How the Internet Shapes Collective Actions

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Introduction

   • Sandy Schumann

   Pages 1-11

3. How the Internet Promotes Self-organized Collective Actions

   • Sandy Schumann

   Pages 12-21

4. How Internet Use Incites Offline Collective Actions

   • Sandy Schumann

   Pages 22-36

5. The Internet as a Platform for Online Collective Actions

   • Sandy Schumann

   Pages 37-45

6. How Cause-related, Advocacy, and Social Movement Organizations Use the Internet to Promote Collective Actions

   • Sandy Schumann

   Pages 46-53

7. How the Internet Shapes Collective Actions in the Future

   • Sandy Schumann

   Pages 54-60

8. Back Matter

   Pages 61-74

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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.

• Internet
• social media
• Facebook
• Twitter
• collective action
• social change
• protest
• slacktivism
• clicktivism
• digital campaigns
• non-profit
• advocacy
• social movement
• organization
• Protest
• revolution

• University of Oxford, UK

  Sandy Schumann

• Wiener-Anspach Foundation, Belgium

  Sandy Schumann

• Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

  Sandy Schumann

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.

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