• Foreword by Chip Heath, author of Made to Stick and Switch. Preface. Introduction: Why Reading This Book Is Worth the Investment. The Dragonfly Body The System That Keeps It Airborne. Wing
• 1: Focus: How to Hatch a Goal That Will Make an Impact. Wing
• 2: Grab Attention: How to Stick Out in an Overcrowded, Overmessaged, Noisy World. Wing
• 3: Engage: How to Make People Connect with Your Goal. Wing
• 4: Take Action: How to Empower Others, Enable Them and Cultivate a Movement. Onward and Upward You re Flying! Now What? Afterword by Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality. Notes. The Dragonfly Ecosystem. About the Authors. Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Proven strategies for harnessing the power of social media to drive social change Many books teach the mechanics of using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to compete in business. But no book addresses how to harness the incredible power of social media to make a difference. The Dragonfly Effect shows you how to tap social media and consumer psychological insights to achieve a single, concrete goal. Named for the only insect that is able to move in any direction when its four wings are working in concert, this book * Reveals the four "wings" of the Dragonfly Effect-and how they work together to produce colossal results * Features original case studies of global organizations like the Gap, Starbucks, Kiva, Nike, eBay, Facebook; and start-ups like Groupon and COOKPAD, showing how they achieve social good and customer loyalty * Leverage the power of design thinking and psychological research with practical strategies * Reveals how everyday people achieve unprecedented results-whether finding an almost impossible bone marrow match for a friend, raising millions for cancer research, or electing the current president of the United States The Dragonfly Effect shows that you don't need money or power to inspire seismic change.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Foreword by Chip Heath, author of Made to Stick and Switch. Preface. Introduction: Why Reading This Book Is Worth the Investment. The Dragonfly Body The System That Keeps It Airborne. Wing
• 1: Focus: How to Hatch a Goal That Will Make an Impact. Wing
• 2: Grab Attention: How to Stick Out in an Overcrowded, Overmessaged, Noisy World. Wing
• 3: Engage: How to Make People Connect with Your Goal. Wing
• 4: Take Action: How to Empower Others, Enable Them and Cultivate a Movement. Onward and Upward You re Flying! Now What? Afterword by Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality. Notes. The Dragonfly Ecosystem. About the Authors. Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Proven strategies for harnessing the power of social media to drive social change Many books teach the mechanics of using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to compete in business. But no book addresses how to harness the incredible power of social media to make a difference. The Dragonfly Effect shows you how to tap social media and consumer psychological insights to achieve a single, concrete goal. Named for the only insect that is able to move in any direction when its four wings are working in concert, this book * Reveals the four "wings" of the Dragonfly Effect-and how they work together to produce colossal results * Features original case studies of global organizations like the Gap, Starbucks, Kiva, Nike, eBay, Facebook; and start-ups like Groupon and COOKPAD, showing how they achieve social good and customer loyalty * Leverage the power of design thinking and psychological research with practical strategies * Reveals how everyday people achieve unprecedented results-whether finding an almost impossible bone marrow match for a friend, raising millions for cancer research, or electing the current president of the United States The Dragonfly Effect shows that you don't need money or power to inspire seismic change.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Foreword by Chip Heath, author of Made to Stick and Switch. Preface. Introduction: Why Reading This Book Is Worth the Investment. The Dragonfly Body The System That Keeps It Airborne. Wing
• 1: Focus: How to Hatch a Goal That Will Make an Impact. Wing
• 2: Grab Attention: How to Stick Out in an Overcrowded, Overmessaged, Noisy World. Wing
• 3: Engage: How to Make People Connect with Your Goal. Wing
• 4: Take Action: How to Empower Others, Enable Them and Cultivate a Movement. Onward and Upward You re Flying! Now What? Afterword by Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality. Notes. The Dragonfly Ecosystem. About the Authors. Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Proven strategies for harnessing the power of social media to drive social change Many books teach the mechanics of using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to compete in business. But no book addresses how to harness the incredible power of social media to make a difference. The Dragonfly Effect shows you how to tap social media and consumer psychological insights to achieve a single, concrete goal. Named for the only insect that is able to move in any direction when its four wings are working in concert, this book * Reveals the four "wings" of the Dragonfly Effect-and how they work together to produce colossal results * Features original case studies of global organizations like the Gap, Starbucks, Kiva, Nike, eBay, Facebook; and start-ups like Groupon and COOKPAD, showing how they achieve social good and customer loyalty * Leverage the power of design thinking and psychological research with practical strategies * Reveals how everyday people achieve unprecedented results-whether finding an almost impossible bone marrow match for a friend, raising millions for cancer research, or electing the current president of the United States The Dragonfly Effect shows that you don't need money or power to inspire seismic change.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Foreword by Chip Heath, author of Made to Stick and Switch. Preface. Introduction: Why Reading This Book Is Worth the Investment. The Dragonfly Body The System That Keeps It Airborne. Wing
• 1: Focus: How to Hatch a Goal That Will Make an Impact. Wing
• 2: Grab Attention: How to Stick Out in an Overcrowded, Overmessaged, Noisy World. Wing
• 3: Engage: How to Make People Connect with Your Goal. Wing
• 4: Take Action: How to Empower Others, Enable Them and Cultivate a Movement. Onward and Upward You re Flying! Now What? Afterword by Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality. Notes. The Dragonfly Ecosystem. About the Authors. Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Proven strategies for harnessing the power of social media to drive social change Many books teach the mechanics of using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to compete in business. But no book addresses how to harness the incredible power of social media to make a difference. The Dragonfly Effect shows you how to tap social media and consumer psychological insights to achieve a single, concrete goal. Named for the only insect that is able to move in any direction when its four wings are working in concert, this book * Reveals the four "wings" of the Dragonfly Effect-and how they work together to produce colossal results * Features original case studies of global organizations like the Gap, Starbucks, Kiva, Nike, eBay, Facebook; and start-ups like Groupon and COOKPAD, showing how they achieve social good and customer loyalty * Leverage the power of design thinking and psychological research with practical strategies * Reveals how everyday people achieve unprecedented results-whether finding an almost impossible bone marrow match for a friend, raising millions for cancer research, or electing the current president of the United States The Dragonfly Effect shows that you don't need money or power to inspire seismic change.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Foreword by Chip Heath, author of Made to Stick and Switch. Preface. Introduction: Why Reading This Book Is Worth the Investment. The Dragonfly Body The System That Keeps It Airborne. Wing
• 1: Focus: How to Hatch a Goal That Will Make an Impact. Wing
• 2: Grab Attention: How to Stick Out in an Overcrowded, Overmessaged, Noisy World. Wing
• 3: Engage: How to Make People Connect with Your Goal. Wing
• 4: Take Action: How to Empower Others, Enable Them and Cultivate a Movement. Onward and Upward You re Flying! Now What? Afterword by Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality. Notes. The Dragonfly Ecosystem. About the Authors. Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Proven strategies for harnessing the power of social media to drive social change Many books teach the mechanics of using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to compete in business. But no book addresses how to harness the incredible power of social media to make a difference. The Dragonfly Effect shows you how to tap social media and consumer psychological insights to achieve a single, concrete goal. Named for the only insect that is able to move in any direction when its four wings are working in concert, this book * Reveals the four "wings" of the Dragonfly Effect-and how they work together to produce colossal results * Features original case studies of global organizations like the Gap, Starbucks, Kiva, Nike, eBay, Facebook; and start-ups like Groupon and COOKPAD, showing how they achieve social good and customer loyalty * Leverage the power of design thinking and psychological research with practical strategies * Reveals how everyday people achieve unprecedented results-whether finding an almost impossible bone marrow match for a friend, raising millions for cancer research, or electing the current president of the United States The Dragonfly Effect shows that you don't need money or power to inspire seismic change.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

• Preface
• Acknowledgment
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Information Centric Network (ICN)
• 3 Content Centric Network (CCN)
• 4 Future Aspects
• References
• Glossary.

This book introduces Content-Centric Networking (CCN), a networking paradigm that provides a simple and effective solution to the challenging demands of future wired and wireless communications. It provides an overview of the recent developments in the area of future internet technologies, bringing together the advancements that have been made in Information-Centric Networking (ICN) in general, with a focus on CCN. It begins with an introduction to the basics of CCN is followed by an overview of the current internet paradigm and its challenges. Next, an application perspective has been included, where the authors encompass the selected applications for CCN with recent refereed research and developments. These applications include Internet of Things (IoT), Smart Grid, Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs), and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The book is a useful reference source for practising researchers, and can be used as supporting material for undergraduate and graduate level courses in computer science and electrical engineering.

• Preface Introduction: The Black experience in cyberspace Guide to History Sites: Overview Best History Sites
• 1. General
• 2. Africa
• 3. Slave Trade
• 4. Slavery
• 5. Emancipation
• 6. Rural Life
• 7. Great Migrations
• 8. Urban Life
• 9. Deindustrialization Crisis
• 10. Information Society Guide to Society and Culture Sites: Overview
• 1. Family and Heritage
• 2. Health
• 3. Education
• 4. Food
• 5. Women
• 6. Politics and Civil Rights
• 7. Religion and the Church
• 8. Business
• 9. Labour
• 10. Science and Technology
• 11. Military
• 12. Law
• 13. Language and Literature
• 14. Music
• 15. Performing Arts
• 16. Visual and Applied Arts
• 17. Gays and Lesbians
• 18. Media
• 19. Sports
• 20. Internet communications.
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The World Wide Web is the greatest source of information used by students and teachers, media and library professionals, as well as the general public. There is so great a flow of information that it is necessary to have a tool for guiding one to the best and most reliable sources. This important new guide to the African American experience in cyberspace fills this need for people in all areas of Black Studies and Multiculturalism. There is no search engine list that can match the quality of sites to be found in this book. Alkalimat provides an easy to use directory to the very best websites that deal with the African American Experience. The first section covers every aspect of African American history, while a second section deals with a diverse set of topics covering society and culture. Each chapter has a brief essay, extensively annotation on the five best sites for each topic, and then a group of good sites and a short bibliography. This book is designed for a course at the high school or college level. This book should be kept near every home computer that people use to surf the web for Black content. Most people have found out that the major corporations and governments have been the dominant uploaders of information into cyberspace. This volume is different because it is a serious introduction to the full democratic use of the web. These websites will introduce people to the people who are serious about ending the digital divide because they are busy uploading information about the most excluded and marginalized people, the African American community. Many of these sites are being established by Black Studies academic programmes, as well as community based organizations and institutions.
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• Vorwort
• Einleitung : das Ende der Unsichtbarkeit
• Identitätsspiele mit Kamera : das moderne Selbst in einer Ökonomie der Aufmerksamkeit
• Ein zeitgenössisches Gesellschaftsspiel : der Massenwettbewerb um soziale Identität
• Warum wir digitale Selbstporträts verschicken : die Blitzkarriere des Seine
• Wobei Menschen überall zuschauen sollen : kleines Panoptikum der Zeigelust
• Wie auch die Kulturprominenz das mediale Identitätsspiel genießt : Sphären der gehobenen Aufmerksamkeitsökonomie
• Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen : Authentizität als Edelware der Medienwelt
• Neugier : auf der Suche nach dem Menschen hinter der Medienfigur
• Rätsel : die Botschaft des Mediums im submedialen Raum
• Geheimnis : Exkurs über Realität in der Gegenwartskunst
• Hoffnung : wer die Büchse der Pandora öffnet
• Der kategorische Imperativ der Mediengesellschaft : ich werde gesehen, also bin ich!
• Mentaler Kapitalismus : Bewirtschafte deine Persönlichkeit!
• Demokratisierung des medialen Narzissmus : die Kamera liebt dich!
• Einladung auf die Schaubühnen der Lebenswelt : zeig uns, wer du bist!
• Big brother als Big mother : die Lust an öffentlicher Selbstdarstellung
• Sichtbarkeit für alle : das interaktive Fernsehen bittet auf die Schaubühnen der Lebenswelt
• Ein Dreieck des Begehrens : das Medium zwischen Darsteller und Publikum
• Der Untergang des Abendlandes : Kulturkritik im Modus des Ressentiments
• Die Verteidigung eines Medienprivilegs : im Verachtungsdiskurs der Eliten
• Das Zwischenmenschliche wird interessant : die soziale Dramaturgie von "Big Brother"
• Beachtung oder Überwachung : ein Dilemma der neuen Medienwelt
• Unverfälschtes Gruppenleben : eine Wohngemeinschaft unter Beobachtung
• Die Geburt von Kultfiguren der Spaßgesellschaft : das Medium in Hebammenfunktion
• Ein echtes Abenteuer unter freiem Himmel : der exotische Reiz des "Dschungelcamps"
• Mediale Auffrischungskur unter Stress : ich war mal ein Star, holt mich hier raus
• Ausweitung der Zielgruppe : mit Alt-Achtundsechzigern das gebildete Publikum ködern
• Bilanzen im Urwaldkampf : eine narzisstische Gewinn- und Verlustrechnung
• Hoffen auf Umweltresonanz : die unbewusste Kehrseite des Narzissmus
• Zwischen Innen und Außen : die Scharnierfunktion des Unbewussten
• Vom Trieb zur Beziehung : die relationale Wende der modernen Psychoanalyse
• Das Unbewusste ist kein Rebell : sondern ein sozialer Konformist
• Die vernetzte Seele : der entwicklungspsychologische Abschied von der Monadentheorie
• Im Spiegel des Anderen : ein Beziehungsmodell des Narzissmus
• Ich werde gesehen, also bin ich : eine moderne Identitätsformel
• Zwischen Selbst und Welt vermitteln : die schöpferische Funktion des Narzissmus
• Den Anderen betrachten, wie er mich betrachtet : die narzisstische Urszene
• Angreifen vor Publikum : Gewalt als demonstrative Machtinszenierung
• Morden im Rampenlicht : ein grandioses Selbst läuft Amok
• Das Phantasma von Unbesiegbarkeit und Unsterblichkeit : der Columbine-Effekt
• Der Täter ist keine Marionette, an der andere ziehen : das Schulmassaker von Erfurt
• Allmacht, Vorphantasie, Nachruhm : die performative Selbsterschaffung im Gewaltakt
• Anpassungsverweigerung, Freiheitspathos, Mordlust : eine Blaupause sozialrebellischer Gewalt
• Weder von innen noch von außen : Vernichtungswut entsteht zwischen den Menschen
• Eine fatale Beziehungsstörung : soziale Metamorphosen des Todestriebs
• Ein großartiges Gefühl : von der Ursachenforschung zur Phänomenologie der Gewalt
• Täter, Opfer, Publikum : zur Dreiecksstruktur zeitgenössischer Gewalt
• Die Krieger des Guten : Über das Töten im Namen höherer Moral
• Gruppengewalt : wie unauffällige Menschen zu Massenmördern werden
• Kunstwerke des Bösen : zur medialen Inszenierung des religiösen Terrors
• Die Welt als Ganzheit : mentale Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen zwischen totalitären Massenbewegungen
• Eine Kultur der Niederlage und die Figur des radikalen Verlierers
• Verbindungen zur Welt knüpfen : die zeitgenössische Psyche als soziale Netzwerkerin
• Die menschliche Seele : ein kompliziertes Beziehungsorgan
• Damit das Ich nicht aus der Welt fällt : die Integrationsaufgabe der Psyche
• Soziale Resonanz : ein seelisches Bindemittel der ersten Stunde
• Sichtbarkeit gegen Unsichtbarkeit : eine Paradoxie des Seelenlebens
• Strukturwandel der Öffentlichkeit : die Flucht aus der sozialen Anonymität
• Kolonialisierung oder Befreiung : die Modernisierung der Lebenswelt
• Niedergang oder Fortschritt : wie das Neue verkannt wird
• Zwang oder Lust : das Bedürfnis nach Selbstdarstellung
• Entdeckung oder Erfindung : die Avantgarde der Internetpioniere
• Ein zeitgemäßer Persönlichkeitstyp : das exzentrische Selbst als moderner Sozialcharakter
• Eine Wende in der Generationendynamik : die Umkehrung des Ödipuskomplexes
• Ein Ende des seelischen Heldentums : auf dem Weg zur postheroischen Persönlichkeit
• Exzentrik im Profi-sport : Exkurs zur Modernisierung des Fußballs
• Aus sich herausgehen : um der Welt zu zeigen, was in einem steckt
• Literatur
• Nachwort
• Danksagung
• Personenregister
• Sachregister.

• 1. Introduction: Infoglut and Clutter-Cutting
• 2. Intelligence Glut: Policing, Security, and Predictive Analytics
• 3. Emotional Glut: Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis
• 4. Future Glut: Marketocracy
• 5. Glut Instinct: Body Language and Visceral Literacy
• 6. Neuro-Glut: Marketing to the Brain
• 7. Theory Glut: From Critique to Conspiracy
• 8. Cutting Through the Glut: Knowledge Small Enough to Know.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Today, more mediated information is available to more people than at any other time in human history. New and revitalized sense-making strategies multiply in response to the challenges of "cutting through the clutter" of competing narratives and taming the avalanche of information. Data miners, "sentiment analysts, " and decision markets offer to help bodies of data "speak for themselves"-making sense of their own patterns so we don't have to. Neuromarketers and body language experts promise to peer behind people's words to see what their brains are really thinking and feeling. New forms of information processing promise to displace the need for expertise and even comprehension-at least for those with access to the data. Infoglut explores the connections between these wide-ranging sense-making strategies for an era of information overload and "big data, " and the new forms of control they enable. Andrejevic critiques the popular embrace of deconstructive debunkery, calling into question the post-truth, post-narrative, and post-comprehension politics it underwrites, and tracing a way beyond them.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)

This book looks at questions and answers pertaining to the organization, usage, and ownership of information in the Internet age-and the impact of shifting attitudes towards information ownership on creative endeavors.
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• Contents: Communicating Through the Internet - Social Networking - Online Presentation and Personal Branding - Social Norms - Misbehavior Online - Internet Relationships - Virtual Communities - The Interface Is the Marketplace - User-Generated Content and Remix Culture - Relationships and Social Capital - Social Issues and Social Networks - Social Network Generation.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This book won the Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction 2014. Technological changes have radically altered the ways in which people use visual images. One such impact has been the transformation of computer-mediated-communication (CMC) into social networking. With a focus on social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Second Life, and YouTube, this book describes the theoretical and historical background of computer-mediated communication alongside the cultural changes occurring with the introduction of digital media in society. Designed for students, this text introduces CMC terminology, methods for analyzing online exchanges, and theories on the relationship between CMC, social networks, and culture. By exploring both the meanings associated with CMC and social networks, and the relationship of CMC to culture, the goal of this text is to provide students with methods to better understand the socially-oriented world in which they live and to understand the characteristics that make social networks successful. There are special features including terms, examples, CMC theory, and suggestions for student exercises.
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• When supply and demand do not meet
• How the content preferences of journalists and consumers diverge: the gap in the United States, Western Europe, and Latin America
• The difference that politics makes: the gap during a presidential election and a national government crisis
• New wine in old bottles: how storytelling matters in the gap between the supply and demand of online news
• Reading what's interesting, sharing what's bizarre or useful, and discussing what's controversial: gaps in various forms of interaction with online news
• The meaning of the gap for media and democracy.

An analysis of divergent online news preferences of journalists and consumers and what this means for media and democracy in the digital age. The websites of major media organizations-CNN, USA Today, the Guardian, and others-provide the public with much of the online news they consume. But although a large proportion of the top stories these sites disseminate cover politics, international relations, and economics, users of these sites show a preference (as evidenced by the most viewed stories) for news about sports, crime, entertainment, and weather. In this book, Pablo Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein examine the divergence in preferences and consider its implications for the media industry and democratic life in the digital age. Drawing on analyses of more than 50,000 stories posted on twenty news sites in seven countries in North and South America and Western Europe, Boczkowski and Mitchelstein find that the gap in news preferences exists regardless of ideological orientation or national media culture, and that it is not affected by innovations in forms of storytelling, such as blogs and user-generated content on mainstream news sites. Drawing upon these findings, they explore the news gap's troubling consequences for the matrix that connects communication, technology, and politics in the digital age.
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• Identity : why do teens seem strange online?
• Privacy : why do youth share so publicly?
• Addiction : what makes teens obsessed with social media?
• Danger : are sexual predators lurking everywhere?
• Bullying : is social media amplifying meanness and cruelty?
• Inequality : can social media resolve social divisions?
• Literacy : are today's youth digital natives?
• Searching for a public of their own
• Appendix: Teen demographics.

An essential read, written by a leading expert, for anyone who wants to understand young people's use of social media What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens' lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media. She explores tropes about identity, privacy, safety, danger, and bullying. Ultimately, boyd argues that society fails young people when paternalism and protectionism hinder teenagers' ability to become informed, thoughtful, and engaged citizens through their online interactions. Yet despite an environment of rampant fear-mongering, boyd finds that teens often find ways to engage and to develop a sense of identity. Boyd's conclusions are essential reading not only for parents, teachers, and others who work with teens but also for anyone interested in the impact of emerging technologies on society, culture, and commerce in years to come. Offering insights gleaned from more than a decade of original fieldwork interviewing teenagers across the United States, boyd concludes reassuringly that the kids are all right. At the same time, she acknowledges that coming to terms with life in a networked era is not easy or obvious. In a technologically mediated world, life is bound to be complicated.
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• Eine neue Ära der Manipulation
• Worst-Case-Scenario für die Demokratie
• Eine Typologie der Irreführung
• Soziale Medien als Drama-Maschine
• Der menschliche Drang zur Einseitigkeit
• Zersplitterte digitale Debatte
• Populisten kreieren Parallelrealitäten
• Leben wir im Informationskrieg?
• Russland : Vorteil durch Dissens
• Wie Falschmeldungen das Denken prägen
• Die gekaperte Wahl
• Düstere Werbeformen
• Wann Falschmeldungen strafbar werden
• Welches Netz möglich wäre
• Was jeder zur Aufklärung beitragen kann
• Festhalten an Fakten
• Anmerkungen.

• 0. Introduction
• 1. Phenomenology of whoness : identity, privacy, trust, and freedom
• 2. Digital ontology
• 3. Digital whoness in connection with privacy, publicness, and freedom
• 4. Intercultural aspects of digitally mediated whoness, privacy, and freedom
• 5. Cyberworld, privacy, and the EU
• 6. Brave new cyberworld.

The first aim is to provide well-articulated concepts by thinking through elementary phenomena of today's world, focusing on privacy and the digital, to clarify who we are in the cyberworld - hence a phenomenology of digital whoness. The second aim is to engage critically, hermeneutically with older and current literature on privacy, including in today's emerging cyberworld. Phenomenological results include concepts of i) self-identity through interplay with the world, ii) personal privacy in contradistinction to the privacy of private property, iii) the cyberworld as an artificial, digital dimension in order to discuss iv) what freedom in the cyberworld can mean, whilst not neglecting v) intercultural aspects and vi) the EU context.
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• Preface Introduction
• The Digital Impact of Social Movements
• Chapter 1
• Social Movement Theories
• Chapter 2
• New Digital Capabilities and Social Change
• Chapter 3
• MoveOn.org and the Tea Party
• Chapter 4
• Arab Spring
• Chapter 5
• The Occupy Wall Street Movement and its Precursors
• Chapter 6
• Occupy Student Debt and the Dreamers Conclusion
• The Digital Future of Social Movements References.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

The emergence of new communication technologies (such as the Internet and social media networking sites and platforms) has strongly affected social movement activism. In this compelling and timely book, Victoria Carty examines these movements and their uses of digital technologies within the context of social movement theory and history. With an accessible and unique mix of theory and real-world examples, Social Movements and New Technology takes readers on a tour through MoveOn and Tea Party e-mail campaigns, the hacktavist tactics of Anonymous, global online protests against rapists and rape culture, and the tweets and Facebook pages that accompanied uprisings across the Arab world, Europe, and the United States. In each case study, the reader is invited to examine the movement, organization, or protest and their use of digital tools through the lens of social movement theory. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter invite critical thinking, further reflection, and debate.
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• Overview of social movement theories and a proposed synthesis
• Students against sweatshops and corporate social responsibility: the anti-Nike campaign
• Contentious politics, cyberactivism, and electoral reform: the reemergence of the peace movement post 9-11
• Moveon.org and the digital revolution
• The 2008 US presidential election and youth activism: digital technologies as grassroots empowerment or elite control?

This book highlights how online networking offers potential for new forms of activist mobilizing, repertoires, participatory democracy, direct action, fundraising, and civic engagement. It calls for a re-conceptualization of some of the main tenets of contentious and electoral politics, which were originally constructed to describe and analyze face-to-face forms of mobilization, in order to more accurately analyze contemporary forms of protest, electoral processes, and civil society organizing.
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