中图分类法:	C912.3 版次：
著者:	Earl, Jennifer,
题名:	Digitally enabled social change : [ activism in the Internet age /] / ,
出版发行:	出版地： Cambridge, Mass. : 出版社： MIT Press, 出版日期： c2011.
载体形态:	viii, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
内容提要:	Much attention has been paid in recent years to the emergence of "Internet activism," but scholars and pundits disagree about whether online political activity is different in kind from more traditional forms of activism. Does the global reach and blazing speed of the Internet affect the essential character or dynamics of online political protest? In this book the authors examine key characteristics of Web activism and investigate their impacts on organizing and participation. They argue that the Web offers two key affordances relevant to activism: sharply reduced costs for creating, organizing, and participating in protest; and the decreased need for activists to be physically together in order to act together. A rally can be organized and demonstrators recruited entirely online, without the cost of printing and mailing; an activist can create an online petition in minutes and gather e-signatures from coast to coast using only her laptop. Drawing on evidence from samples of online pe