[Air-l] Internet Activism & Advocacy

Fri May 18 03:14:07 PDT 2007

Below is a compilation of sources that I received from folks here.  It's
a bit unorthodox, but I list the entries in chronological order, from
oldest to most recent. 

Thanks very much to all who sent me citations these last two weeks.

** member credits at bottom of this email **

Myers, D.J. (1994). Communication technology and social movements:
contributions of computer networks to activism. Social Science Computer
Review 12 (2), 250-260.

Hill, K.A. & Hughes, J.E. (1997). Computer mediated communication: the
USENET and political communities. Political Communications 14, 3-27.

Davis, R. (1999). The web of politics: The Internet's impact on the
American political system. New York: Oxford University Press.

Ferdinand, P. (2000).  The Internet, democracy, and democratization,
Portland, OR: Frank Cass.

McConnell, S. (2000).  A champion in our midst: Lessons learned from the

impacts of NGOs' use of the Internet. Electronic Journal on Information 
Systems in Developing Countries, 2(5), 1-15.

Wilhelm, A. (2000). Democracy in the Digital Age. New York and 
London: Routledge.

Abbott, J. P. (2001).  Democracy at internet.asia? The Challenges to the 
Emancipatory Potential of the Net: Lessons from China and Malaysia.
Third World Quarterly, 22(1), 99-114.

Armond, P. (2001). Netwar in the emerald city: WTO protest strategy
and tactics. In J. Arquilla, and D. Ronfeldt (Eds.), Networks and
netwars (pp. 201-238). Santa Monica, CA: Rand.

Camacho, K. (2001).  The Internet: A tool for social change? Elements
of a necessary discussion. The Project Evaluation of the Social Impact
of the Internet in Central America: The Case of Civil Society
Organisation.  Mexico: FLASCO.

Warkentin, C. (2001).  Reshaping World Politics. NGOs, the Internet, and

Global Civil Society, Boston: Rowman & Littlefield.

Hick, S. & J. McNutt (Eds.), (2002)  Advocacy, Activism and the
Internet. 
Community Organization and Social Policy, Chicago: Lyceum Books.

Hill, D. T. & K. Sen (2002).  Netizens in combat: Conflict on the
Internet in Indonesia. Asian Studies Review, 26(2).

Jordan, T. (2002). Activism! Direct Action, Hactivism
and the Future of Society. London: Reaktion Books.

Langman, L., & D. Morris (2002). Internet
mediation: A theory  of alternative globalization
movements.  In M. Gurstein & S. Finquelievich (eds.),
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on
Community Informatics. Montreal, Canada, October 8,
2002.

Lim, M. (2002).  Cyber-civic Space. From Panopticon to Pandemonium? 
International Development and Planning Review, 24(4), 383-400.

Myers, D. J. (2002).  Social Activism through Computer Networks, in
Computing in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Burton, O. V., (Ed.):
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books/burton/ch06.html

(2003).  From Real to Virtual (and Back again): The Internet and
Public Sphere in Indonesia. In K.C. Ho, R. Kluver & K. Yang (Eds.) Asia
Encounters the Internet. 113-128. London: Routledge.

(2003).  The Internet, Social Networks and Reform in Indonesia. In N. 
Couldry & J. Curran (Eds.) Contesting Media Power. Alternative Media
in a Networked World 273-288. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield.

(2003).  Transnational Civil Society and the Internet in an
Unregulated Capitalist World System: A Utopian Dream? Response to
Surman & Reilly's Appropriating the Internet for Social Change.
Report. Geneva: Social Science Research Council (SSRC), IT Governance
and the Politics of Civil Society Research Network.

Bennett, W. L. (2003).  New Media Power: the Internet and Global
Activism. In N. Couldry & J. Curran (Eds.) Contesting Media Power.
London: Rowman and Littlefield.

Diani, M., & D. McAdam (Eds.), (2003). Social movements and networks:
Relational approaches to collective action. New York: Oxford
University Press.

McCaughey, M., & M. D. Ayers (Eds.), (2003).  Cyberactivism: Online
Activism in Theory and Practice.  New York: Routledge.

Meikle, G. (2003).  Indymedia and the new net news. M/C: A Journal of
Media and Culture 6(2). Retrieved December 10, 2005 from
http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0304/02-feature.php

Park, H.W. & Thelwall, M. (2003). Hyperlink analysis:
Between networks and  indicators, Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication, 8(4): 
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol8/issue4/park.html

Park, H.W. (2003). What is hyperlink network
analysis?: New method for  the   study of social
structure on the Web. Connections, 25(1), 49-61.
http://www.insna.org/Connections-Web/Volume25-1/7.Hyperlink.pdf

Pickerill, J. (2003). Cyberprotest: Environmental activism online.
Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Surman, M. & K. Reilly (2003, November).  Appropriating the internet
for social change: Towards the strategic use of networked technologies
by transnational civil society organizations. Version 1.0. Social
Science Research Council. Retrieved December 14, 2005 from:
http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic.

(2004).  Informational Terrains of Identity and Political Power: The 
Internet in Indonesia. Indonesian Journal of Social and Cultural 
Anthropology, 27(73), 1-11.

Brainard, L.A. & J. M. Brinkerhoff (2004). Lost in cyberspace: Shedding
light on the dark matter of grassroots organizations. Nonprofit and
voluntary sector quarterly. 33 (3), 32S-52S.

Samuel, A. (2004).  Hacktivsim and the Future of Political
Participation,  Thesis presented to the Department of Government in
partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy in the subject of Political Science:
http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/dissertation/pdfs/Samuel-Hacktivism-entire.pdf

Sey, A., & M. Castells (2004).  From Media Politics to Networked
Politics: The Internet and the Political Process. In M. Castells (Ed.)
The Network Society: A cross-Cultural Perspective 363-381. Cheltenham:
Edward Elgar.

Thelwall, M. and L. Vaughn. (2004).  Special Issue on Webometrics.
JASIST, 55(14).

van de Donk, W., Loader, B., Nixon, P., & D. Rucht (Eds.), (2004). 
Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and social movements.  New York:
Routledge.

(2005).  Islamic Radicalism and Anti Americanism in Indonesia: The
Role of the Internet, Washington DC: East West Center.

(2005).  The Internet in Indonesia's New Democracy, London and New
York: Routledge.

de Jong, W., Shaw, M., & N. Stammer (Eds.), (2005).  Global Media,
Global Activism.  United Kingdom: Pluto Press.

Davis, R. (2005).  Politics On-line: Blogs, chat rooms and discussion
Groups in American democracy. New York: Routledge.

Hara, N., & Z. C. Estrada  (2005).  Analyzing the mobilization of
grassroots activities via the Internet: A case study.  Journal of
Information Science, 31(6), 503-514.  Also published in
FirstMonday, 8(12). 
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/hara/index.html

Schneider, S. M., & K. A. Foot  (2005).  Web sphere analysis: an
approach to studying online action. In
Hine, C. (Ed.), Virtual Methods: Issues in social research on the
internet (pp. 157-170). Oxford: Berg
Publishers.

(2006).  Cyber-Urban Activism and the Political Change in Indonesia. 
EastBound, 1(1), http://www.eastbound.info/journal/2006-1/.

Garrett, R. K. (2006).  Protest in an Information Society: A Review of
Literature on Social Movements and New ICTs. Information,
Communication and Society, 9(2), 202-224.

Pickard, V. W. (2006).  United yet autonomous: Indymedia and the
struggle to sustain a radical democratic network. Media Culture &
Society, 28, 315-336.

Shumate, M., & J. Pike (2006).  Trouble in a geographically
distributed virtual network organization: Organizing 
tensions in continental direct action network. Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(3), article 8. 
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue3/shumate.html

Hara, N., & Shachaf, P. (in press). Online peace movement
organizations: A comparative analysis. In I. Chen & T. Kidd (Eds.).
Social information technology: Connection society and cultural issues.
Hershey, PA: Idea Group.  Preprint is available at:
http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~nhara/paper/HaraShachaf-peace.pdf

Some other helpful links:

http://www.policymagic.org/electron2.htm

http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/blogs/

http://www.merlyna.org/pubs

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