Category: Collective Action
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Can e-participation be improved? Lessons from two successful initiatives.
Many initiatives have been launched, but some of them fail and/or are abandoned, contributing to…
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Is crowdfunding at risk of being weaponized for extremist causes?
How do crowdfunding sites maintain their legitimacy as ‘open’ platforms while avoiding complicity with divisive,…
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Hate speech by political actors on X. The Spanish case.
Political agents utilize digital platforms as alternative venues to solidify their ideological stances, employing rhetorical…
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How useful are volunteer crisis-mappers in a humanitarian crisis?
Concerns have been raised about the quality of amateur mapping and data efforts, and the…
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Exploring the Ethics of Monitoring Online Extremism
Exploring the complexities of policing the web for extremist material, and its implications for security,…
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Controlling the crowd? Government and citizen interaction on emergency-response platforms
Government involvement in crowdsourcing efforts can actually be used to control and regulate volunteers from…
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Do Finland’s digitally crowdsourced laws show a way to resolve democracy’s “legitimacy crisis”?
Discussing the digitally crowdsourced law for same-sex marriage that was passed in Finland and analysing…
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Political polarisation on social media: do birds of a feather flock together on Twitter?
Twitter’s connections tend to be less about strong social relationships and more about connecting with…
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Don’t knock clickivism: it represents the political participation aspirations of the modern citizen
Is an action only ‘political’ if it takes place in the mainstream political arena; involving…
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Presenting the moral imperative: effective storytelling strategies by online campaigning organisations
Existing civil society focused organisations are also being challenged to fundamentally change their approach, to…
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Investigating the structure and connectivity of online global protest networks
The new networks of political protest, which harness these new online technologies are often described…
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The global fight over copyright control: Is David beating Goliath at his own game?
We stress the importance of digital environments for providing contenders of copyright reform with a…