Multiple Engagements and Network Bridging in Contentious Politics : Digital Media Use of Protest Participants

IF 1.3 2区社会学 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

Mobilization Pub Date : 2011-09-01 DOI:10.17813/MAIQ.16.3.B0780274322458WK

S. Walgrave, W. Bennett, J. V. Laer, Christian Breunig

引用次数: 104

Abstract

†Based on three series of protest surveys across nations, issues, and time, this study examines to what extent the use of digital media permits activists to sustain multiple engagements in different protest events and different movement organizations. We find that digital media use stimulates multiple activisms. Through information and communication technologies (ICTs), activists can maintain multiple engagements and manage weak ties with diverse protest and movement communities. The data also suggest that these multiple engagements and overlapping activisms effectively provide linkages to and integration within social movement networks. Core activists who are closely linked to protest organizations rely more on ICTs to manage their multiple commitments. Even activists less closely tied to core protest organizations can link to more diverse communities through Internet use. These basic patterns systematically hold across nations, across issues, and across time.

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争议性政治中的多重参与和网络桥梁:抗议参与者的数字媒体使用

†基于跨国家、议题和时间的三个系列抗议调查，本研究考察了数字媒体的使用在多大程度上允许活动家在不同的抗议事件和不同的运动组织中维持多重参与。我们发现数字媒体的使用激发了多种活动。通过信息和通信技术(ict)，活动人士可以保持多种参与，并管理与各种抗议和运动社区的薄弱联系。数据还表明，这些多重参与和重叠的活动有效地提供了与社会运动网络的联系和整合。与抗议组织关系密切的核心活动人士更多地依靠信息通信技术来管理他们的多重承诺。即使是与核心抗议组织联系不那么紧密的活动人士，也可以通过互联网与更多样化的社区建立联系。这些基本模式系统地适用于不同的国家、不同的问题和不同的时代。

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Mobilization SOCIOLOGY-

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3.80

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期刊介绍： Mobilization: An International Quarterly is the premier journal of research specializing in social movements, protests, insurgencies, revolutions, and other forms of contentious politics. Mobilization was first published in 1996 to fill the need for a scholarly review of research that focused exclusively with social movements, protest and collective action. Mobilization is fully peer-reviewed and widely indexed. A 2003 study, when Mobilization was published semiannually, showed that its citation index rate was 1.286, which placed it among the top ten sociology journals. Today, Mobilization is published four times a year, in March, June, September, and December. The editorial board is composed of thirty internationally recognized scholars from political science, sociology and social psychology. The goal of Mobilization is to provide a forum for global, scholarly dialogue. It is currently distributed to the top international research libraries and read by the most engaged scholars in the field. We hope that through its wide distribution, different research strategies and theoretical/conceptual approaches will be shared among the global community of social movement scholars, encouraging a collaborative process that will further the development of a cumulative social science.