Bibliograph

Expect us, online communities and political mobilization, Jessica L. Beyer

Type

Label

Expect us, online communities and political mobilization, Jessica L. Beyer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Expect us

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

882260612

Responsibility statement

Jessica L. Beyer

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Sub title

online communities and political mobilization

Summary

'Expect Us' focuses on four online communities - Anonymous (4chan.org), The Pirate Bay, World of Warcraft, and the IGN.com posting boards. In all of these members engaged deeply with political issues in a range of ways. However, only two of the communities mobilised politically. If political behaviour occurred on all four communities, why did only two of these sites foster political mobilisation among their participants? Using ethnographic methods, Beyer argues that key structural features about the birthplaces of the four communities shaped the type of political behaviour that emerged from each

Target audience

specialized

Classification