This article reviews the main findings of a three-year empirical study that examined the
possible contribution of computer-mediated communication (CMC) to participation in offline …

Advances in technology increasingly empowered citizens to become active seekers and
even co-producers of e-government information and services rather than being only passive …

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 …

This paper examines the evolution of citizen coproduction in the age of social media, web
2.0 interactivity, and ubiquitous connectivity. The paper first discusses the re-emergence of …

An emerging research agenda focuses on social media's influence on political activism.
Specific attention has recently been paid to digital social movement organizing and action …

Over the last four decades, new modes of communication have redefined people's
engagement with media: media audiences are now also makers, influencers, followers …

Early conceptions of digital democracy as a virtual public sphere or civic commons have
been replaced by a new technological optimism for democratic renewal based upon the …

The framing question for this chapter is: How have both the new participatory turn and
individualisation changed, and how do organisations and movements mobilise participants …

The great thinkers who influenced the contemporary field of political communication were
preoccupied with understanding the political, social, psychological, and economic …

This essay aims to “materialize” organizational communication in three senses. First, we
seek to make the field of study bearing this name more tangible for North American …