عنوان

Digital activism: Social movements in the digital age

Number

TL47842

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Digital activism: Social movements in the digital age

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Huseyin Cahit Nalbantoglu

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Rogers, Elisabeth Lodge

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Spalding University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

151

Text of Note

Committee members: Keeling, Deborah G.; Ozer, Murat

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-05859-8

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ed.D.

Discipline of degree

Education

Body granting the degree

Spalding University

Text preceding or following the note

2014

Text of Note

Technological developments in information and communication systems, particularly the emergence of the Internet, have radically changed social movement concepts and created a new form of social movements, which is digital activism. While it is sometimes an extremely innocent way of demanding social change, sometimes it becomes a dangerous form of criminal action. That is the reason digital activism needs to be addressed and scrutinized, particularly by the states and governments. It is important to understand how the social, political and technological factors - the target, sphere, digital resources and regime type - impact digital activism's outcome. From this perspective, the target of digital activism, the sphere of digital activism, and the regime type have been found to be important variables in determining the success of digital activism. The combination of the target of digital activism, digital activism sphere and the regime type were able to explain 7.2% (R² = .072) of the variation in digital activism success. In other words, there is about 93% of variation in digital activism success left to be explained by factors other than the target of digital activism, digital activism sphere and the regime type.

Political science; Sociology; Web Studies

Subject Term

Social sciences;Communication and the arts;Arab spring;Digital activism social movements digital age;Facebook success;Regime government;Target technology internet;Twitter

Khan, Saira

Rogers, Elisabeth Lodge

Subdivision

Education

Spalding University

Call Number

1561344722; 3629158

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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