| Description |
1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Protest and social movements
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Protest and social movements.
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Note |
Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238) and index. |
| Contents |
Models of online-related activism -- Methods for investigating online-related, large-scale campaigns on the web -- Water commons : global movements and the Italian campaign against water privatization -- The web of water : a trace on the links structure -- Patterns of online communication during the referendum campaign -- The campaign for water on Facebook : perceptions and organizational models in a real-digital space of activism -- Reinterpreting the data : new theoretical perspectives and methodological proposals. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
This book focuses on the referendums against water privatisation in Italy and explores how activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote. Investigating the relationship between social movements and internet-related activism during complex campaigns, this book examines how a technological evolution-the increased relevance of social media platforms-affected in very different ways organisations with divergent characteristics, promoting at the same time decentralised communication practices, and new ways of coordinating dispersed communities of people. Matteo Cernison combines and adapts a wide set of methods, from social network analysis to digital ethnography, in order to explore in detail how digital activism and face-to-face initiatives interact and overlap. He argues that the geographical scale of actions, the role played by external media professionals, and the activists' perceptions of digital technologies are key elements that contribute in a significant way to shape the very different communication practices often described as online activism. |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Subject |
Privatization -- Italy.
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Privatization. |
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Italy. |
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Water-supply -- Italy.
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Water-supply. |
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Social media -- Political aspects.
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Social media -- Political aspects. |
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Social media. |
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Internet and activism -- Italy.
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Internet and activism. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books. .
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| Subject |
Social media. |
| Added Author |
Project Muse, distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9789462980068 9462980063 |
| ISBN |
9789048529193 |
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9048529190 |
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9789462980068 |
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9462980063 |
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