How the internet and online interaction strengthen social movements
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- In recent years, it has become increasingly apparent that the internet and online interaction plays a role in the mobilization of social movement participants and in potential movement success. Social movement scholars have long debated whether such technological affordances enable similar or different mechanisms compared to traditional offline "in person" social movements and what this means for outcomes. These three papers that serve as dissertation chapters broadly seek to understand how the internet strengthens and influences contemporary social movements. Here I show how computer technologies augment and change traditional pathways for social movement emergence, specifically highlighting these key differences: 1. Secrecy and pseudonymity enabled by social computing platforms can increase trust between online activists and serve as a movement resource; 2. Tie formation over the internet widens the potential pool of activists and reach of movement activity; and 3: Activists can use social media to spread visual matter such as photographs and videos that encourage greater bystander support through more effective framing. I use the case of LGBT military inclusion in the United States from research conducted between 2009 and 2019 of social movement tactics and mobilization among LGBT military service members working to repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and transgender exclusion laws in the recent social movements for LGBT military inclusion. The contributions provide deeper understanding for how contemporary social movements are created, maintained, and changed in an era of online connectivity, showing the power that new computer technologies can have on society.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Sheng, Jeffrey T |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
| Thesis advisor | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
| Thesis advisor | Granovetter, Mark S |
| Thesis advisor | Jiménez, Tómas R. (Tómas Roberto), 1975- |
| Thesis advisor | Soule, Sarah Anne, 1967- |
| Degree committee member | Granovetter, Mark S |
| Degree committee member | Jiménez, Tómas R. (Tómas Roberto), 1975- |
| Degree committee member | Soule, Sarah Anne, 1967- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jeffrey T. Sheng. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/ch671jq4294 |
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- © 2021 by Jeffrey T. Sheng
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