Academic observers and public intellectuals frequently criticize mass email action alerts as
“slacktivism” or “clicktivism,” arguing that the lowered transaction costs of the medium …

Within this article, I explore how consumer activists use the petition site Change. org to
successfully resist and challenge corporate business practices. Bringing together literature …

This article explores the role of social media platforms in transnational activism by
examining the case of Avaaz. org, an international advocacy organization aiming to bring …

Research on internet politics has found that digital media have contributed to a hybridization
of the organizational practices of parties, movements and interest groups. Little attention …

This discussion paper looks at the current historical momentum and potential future
development of civil society and youth leadership for a systemic transformation to a …

This article considers the emergence of large-scale “commons-based peer production”
projects such as Wikipedia. org from an institutional development perspective. The argument …

This dissertation examines the effectiveness of nonprofit advocacy on social media. With
nationwide data on homelessness nonprofits in the United States, this is the first to examine …

This article assesses the relationship between the use of Facebook and the development of
social movements by focusing on the case study of the Italian movement Popolo …

This paper considers the emergence of large-scale “commonsbased peer production”
projects such as Wikipedia. org from an institutional development perspective in order to …

I examine how the progressive organization MoveOn. org uses the internet to organize
citizens for both online and offline activism. The data are drawn from four years of online and …