[Air-l] SMS and cell phone research

[richard.ling at telenor.com]

Hi,

There is a booking coming out from MIT press edited by James Katz that has, as I recall, a paper on mobile activism.  I am not sure when that is coming out.

I have also written a paper where I look at mobile telephony vis-à-vis social protest using Gamson's analysis of the strategies of social protest.  The paper is at:

http://www.richardling.com/papers/2000_impact_on_four_institutions.pdf

Rich Ling


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From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Redante Asuncion-Reed
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2007 12:06 AM
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Subject: [Air-l] SMS and cell phone research

Hello all

I am a graduate student in the American University School of Communications. I am doing my master's theses on the use of cell phones and sms messaging in activism, particularly in Africa by an NGO called FAHAMU.

The broad question I seek to explore is if the use of social media technology by social activist organizations have made them more effective in their work? FAHAMU's use of cell phones and sms activism will be my case study to narrow it down to manageable size.

I have a lot of Internet websites and a set of mass market books I will use:

Momentum by Allison Fine
Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell

What I lack are scholarly and academic research to give me a theoretical framework to work with.I have been scanning Prof. Barry Wellman's web site and sense that some of his research on social networks and the Internet might be applicable but I can't identify a particular paper or book yet that is right for my research.

Can I ask the advice of the list members on what books, journal articles, and other scholarly sources might be helpful for my research?

Regards,
Redante






 
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