1st Edition
Wired and Mobilizing Social Movements, New Technology, and Electoral Politics
Introduction 1. Overview of Social Movement Theories and a Proposed Synthesis 2. Students Against Sweatshops and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Anti-Nike Campaign 3. Contentious Politics, Cyberactivism, and Electoral Reform: The Reemergence of the Peace Movement Post 9-11 4. MoveOn.org and the Digital Revolution 5. The 2008 Presidential Election and Youth Activism: Digital Technologies as Grassroots Empowerment or Elite Control? Conclusion
Biography
Victoria Carty is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Chapman University.
"Many people regard the present as a lull in political activism, certainly from the Left, although the Tea Party movement suggests that right-wing social movements are alive and well. This book challenges that assumption and suggests that the focus for organization has shifted to the Internet." —Highly Recommended in CHOICE. Review by Y. R. Magrass, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
