This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of
contemporary digital activism. The author deconstructs the reductionism of the literature on …

Inspired by a call to Occupy Wall Street circulated by the Canadian magazine Adbusters, the
Occupy movement began on 17 September 2011 when activists occupied Zuccotti Park in …

Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present
stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy. Yet, at the same …

" The revolution will be Twittered!" declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted
in Iran in June 2009. Yet for all the talk about the democratizing power of the Internet …

The extensive use of social media for protest purposes was a distinctive feature of the recent
protest events in Spain, Greece, and the United States. Like the Occupy Wall Street …

This article seeks to open dialogue about the utility of resource mobilization theory in
explaining social movements and their impact by exploring the use of social media in the …

The Zapatista uprising, which started in 1994, and the 'Battle of Seattle'in 1999 are but two
iconic examples that are so often used to illustrate how the internet has shaped and is …

Con un lenguaje claro, ameno y accesible, la obra de Donatella della Porta y Mario Diani
sigue siendo, hoy por hoy, una referencia obligada para los investigadores, además de un …

Good metaphors may be essential to social science. By putting" the polysemous properties
of language in the foreground," they facilitate what Richard Harvey Brown calls the" genre …

This article explores how social media acted as a catalyst for protest mobilization during the
Tunisian revolution in late 2010 and early 2011. Using evidence from protests we argue that …