Civil Society, Political Economy, and the Internet

Breslow, Harris

doi:10.4135/9781446250303.n12

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“…Similarly, Boyd (2005Boyd ( , 2008 underlines that it is an illusion to see technological structure determines practice, technology is not the initiator of any social movements, and it is the people who use technology to voice their opinion. Breslow (1997) notes that the Internet promotes a sense of sociality, but whether this translates into solidarity is a question mark, and the absence of solid commitment negates the true potential of the Internet as a public sphere (Castells, 2012).…”

Section: Internet As a Form Of New Public Sphere And Online Activismmentioning

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Online Environmental Activism: The Case of Iğneada Floodplain Forest

Menteş

2019

Sage Open

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The Internet has changed the ways and conditions of activism. Especially over the last three decades, online activism has been prevalently used for sharing information, connecting people, and mobilizing crowds to express their discontent. The Internet is often referred to as a new form of public sphere, which demonstrates many distinctive and advantageous features compared with traditional types of public spheres. By following public sphere theory, this study examines online activism in the context of environmental activism and aims to understand the potential of the Internet within online activism practices. The studied website “Save the Floodplain Forest” ( www.longozukoru.org ) is an environmentalist activist platform dedicated to saving the Iğneada floodplain forest. The study employed the five-dimensional content analysis scale developed by Kavada to evaluate and analyze the campaign website. The results exhibit inadequacies and point out the potential rooms for improvement for the campaign website.

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Section: Internet As a Form Of New Public Sphere And Online Activismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Online Environmental Activism: The Case of Iğneada Floodplain Forest

Menteş

2019

Sage Open

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“…The virtual community can accurately be construed as a platform for public discussions, particularly from a ‘public sphere’ perspective (Breslow :241; Lievrouw and Livingstone :66). Throughout history, the classical forum, the agora and public baths, the French literary salons, and the English coffee houses of the eighteenth century, have played the role of arenas for communicating information and articulating opinions about ‘things public’ (Habermas ).…”

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From ‘Imagined’ to ‘Virtual Communities’: Greek‐Turkish Encounters in Cyberspace

Theodorelis-Rigas

2013

Studies Ethnicity & National

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The pivotal role played by Computer-Mediated Communications (CMCs) as mobilization tools for social movements as diverse as the 'Arab Spring', the Iranian 'Green Revolution', and the 2008 Greek 'December Riots', has rekindled academic interest in the internet as a field of sociological research. Drawing on new media and nationalism studies, this article approaches a particular type of CMC as a 'virtual community'. By examining the context of post-1999 GreekTurkish reconciliation, it is argued that these virtual communities have offered significant breathing space for individuals who are ready to revisit, discuss, and negotiate the constitutive boundaries of modernity's 'imagined communities', and are therefore conducive to the Greek-Turkish rapprochement.

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“…In both cases, business was the first to embrace these technologies and take advantage of their capabilities. Television, for example, “was construed–as both a commodified communications apparatus…and a market” (Breslow, 1997, p. 237; see also Moran, 1994).…”

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On Utopias and Dystopias: Toward an Understanding of the Discourse Surrounding the Internet

Fisher

Wright

2006

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

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It is clear that the Internet has the capacity to change how individuals interact with others as well as increase access to information. Whether either one of these factors affects the social landscape has yet to be determined. This fact has not kept many from anticipating the effects of the technology on society. In this paper, we contextualize some of the main issues of discussion regarding the Internet, describing these positions in terms of utopian and dystopian perspectives. By resurrecting William Ogburn's theory of the cultural lag (1964), we present a framework for understanding the extreme responses to the technology. The lag suggests that the effects of a technology will not be apparent to social actors for some time after it is introduced to a society. As such, much of the discourse concerning the Internet is ideologically charged, filled as much with the hopes and fears of individual authors as with the reality of the medium's effects.

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Civil Society, Political Economy, and the Internet

Cited by 13 publications

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Online Environmental Activism: The Case of Iğneada Floodplain Forest

Online Environmental Activism: The Case of Iğneada Floodplain Forest

From ‘Imagined’ to ‘Virtual Communities’: Greek‐Turkish Encounters in Cyberspace

On Utopias and Dystopias: Toward an Understanding of the Discourse Surrounding the Internet

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