The Resource Expect us : online communities and political mobilization, Jessica L. Beyer
Expect us : online communities and political mobilization, Jessica L. Beyer
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- Summary
- People use online social forums for all sorts of reasons, including political conversations, regardless of the site's main purpose. But what leads some of these people to take their online political activity into the offline world of activism? In Expect Us, Jessica L. Beyer looks at political consciousness and action in four communities, each born out of chaotic online social spaces that millions of individuals enter, spend time in, and exit moment by moment: Anonymous (4chan), IGN, World of Warcraft, and The Pirate Bay. None of these sites began as places for political organization per se, but visitors to each have used them as places for political engagement to one degree or another. Beyer explains the puzzling emergence of political engagement in these disparate social spaces and offers reasons for their varied capacity to generate political activism. Her comparative ethnography of these four online communities demonstrates that the technological organization of space itself has a strong role in determining the possibility of political mobilization. Overall, she shows that political mobilization rises when a site provides high levels of anonymity, low levels of formal regulation, and minimal access to small-group interaction. Furthermore, her findings reveal that young people are more politically involved than much of the civic engagement literature suggests.--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvi, 197 pages
- Contents
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- Online communities and political mobilization
- Anonymous : carnival to mobilization
- The pirate bay : contribution to mobilization
- World of warcraft : cooperation without mobilization
- Ign.com : conversation without mobilization
- Expect them
- Appendix : research methodology
- Isbn
- 9780199330768
- Label
- Expect us : online communities and political mobilization
- Title
- Expect us
- Title remainder
- online communities and political mobilization
- Statement of responsibility
- Jessica L. Beyer
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- People use online social forums for all sorts of reasons, including political conversations, regardless of the site's main purpose. But what leads some of these people to take their online political activity into the offline world of activism? In Expect Us, Jessica L. Beyer looks at political consciousness and action in four communities, each born out of chaotic online social spaces that millions of individuals enter, spend time in, and exit moment by moment: Anonymous (4chan), IGN, World of Warcraft, and The Pirate Bay. None of these sites began as places for political organization per se, but visitors to each have used them as places for political engagement to one degree or another. Beyer explains the puzzling emergence of political engagement in these disparate social spaces and offers reasons for their varied capacity to generate political activism. Her comparative ethnography of these four online communities demonstrates that the technological organization of space itself has a strong role in determining the possibility of political mobilization. Overall, she shows that political mobilization rises when a site provides high levels of anonymity, low levels of formal regulation, and minimal access to small-group interaction. Furthermore, her findings reveal that young people are more politically involved than much of the civic engagement literature suggests.--
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- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Beyer, Jessica Lucia
- Dewey number
- 302.30285
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Oxford studies in digital politics
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Online social networks
- Social media
- Political participation
- Communication in politics
- Young adults
- Youth
- Label
- Expect us : online communities and political mobilization, Jessica L. Beyer
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Online communities and political mobilization -- Anonymous : carnival to mobilization -- The pirate bay : contribution to mobilization -- World of warcraft : cooperation without mobilization -- Ign.com : conversation without mobilization -- Expect them -- Appendix : research methodology
- Control code
- FIEb17592926
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xvi, 197 pages
- Isbn
- 9780199330768
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)876136488
- Label
- Expect us : online communities and political mobilization, Jessica L. Beyer
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Online communities and political mobilization -- Anonymous : carnival to mobilization -- The pirate bay : contribution to mobilization -- World of warcraft : cooperation without mobilization -- Ign.com : conversation without mobilization -- Expect them -- Appendix : research methodology
- Control code
- FIEb17592926
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- xvi, 197 pages
- Isbn
- 9780199330768
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)876136488
Subject
- Political participation -- Technological innovations
- Social media -- Political aspects
- Young adults -- Political activity
- Youth -- Political activity
- Communication in politics -- Technological innovations
- Online social networks -- Political aspects
Member of
- Oxford scholarship online
- Oxford scholarship online, Political Science module
- Oxford studies in digital politics
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