Category: Collective Action
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Why do (some) political protest mobilisations succeed?
Mobilisation paths are difficult to predict because they depend on the right alignment of conditions…
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Online collective action and policy change: shifting contentious politics in policy processes
The Internet can facilitate the involvement of social movements in policymaking processes, but also constitute…
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Online collective action and policy change: new special issue from Policy and Internet
The internet has provided citizens with a greater capacity for coordination and mobilisation, which can…
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Did Libyan crisis mapping create usable military intelligence?
While many people continued to contribute conventional humanitarian information to the map, the sudden shift…
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Papers on Policy, Activism, Government and Representation: New Issue of Policy and Internet
Investigating the relationship between Internet-based applications and data and the policy process.
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Preserving the digital record of major natural disasters: the CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive project
The Internet can be hugely useful to coordinate disaster relief efforts, or to help rebuild…
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Slicing digital data: methodological challenges in computational social science
Small changes in individual actions can have large effects at the aggregate level; this opens…
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Last 2010 issue of Policy and Internet just published (2,4)
We are pleased to present seven articles, all of which focus on a substantive public…