Clicking the captives free : digital activism in the anti-human trafficking movement
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation features three papers examining the use of digital activism within the anti-human trafficking movement. The first paper analyzes activists' web presence and strategies using quantitative web data and qualitative interview data, seeking specifically to understand how activists navigate the tension between structure and agency in a social space where norms have not yet been fully codified. The second paper uses data from interviews with activists to analyze how emotion work is done online, including personalizing statistics to generate moral shock and telling survivor stories to demonstrate efficacy and create hope for social change. The third paper contributes to the fields of social movement studies and digital activism by identifying three types of online goals that are well-suited to digital activism, namely user engagement, fundraising, and individual changes of behavior such as ethical purchasing decisions.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Gong, Rachel |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. |
| Primary advisor | McAdam, Doug |
| Thesis advisor | McAdam, Doug |
| Thesis advisor | Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- |
| Thesis advisor | Parigi, Paolo, 1973- |
| Advisor | Jiménez, Tomás R. (Tomás Roberto), 1975- |
| Advisor | Parigi, Paolo, 1973- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Rachel Gong. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Rachel Hui Ngee Gong
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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