The New Generation of Political Advocacy Groups

Karpf, David

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“…Yet, these organizations are changing. Research on the changing landscape of civic organizations has shown that the way they interact with members, the kinds of requests for action that they make, and the very way they conceive of membership has become more fluid and more focused on timely events (Bimber 2003; Bimber et al 2012; Karpf 2012). These changes leave open questions about the causal effect of organizational behavior, particularly in modern civic organizations that are seeking to create online appeals for action that can have broader relational effects downstream (Han 2014).…”

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“…Study Population: The study was conducted among 118 new members. Like many modern civic organizations, the National Association of Doctors does not have formal application processes for joining; people can become “members” simply by taking action with the organization, such as attending an event, signing a petition, or visiting the website (Bimber et al 2012; Karpf 2012). These 118 people had “joined” the organization by signing the last petition the National Association of Doctors had distributed but had not yet signed the petition to oppose the proposed budget cuts.…”

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“…The intensive, face-to-face, ritualistic interactions of the past are gone (Schier 2000; Skocpol 2003). In its place are short, online interactions competing with numerous other stimuli in a crowded information environment for attention (Bimber et al 2012; Karpf 2012). Some studies have argued that organizations can shape these interactions in ways that have “beneficial internalities,” or downstream effects that help cultivate a longer-term relationship between the organization and the member, but not all organizations do so (Han 2014; Tufekci 2014).…”

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The Organizational Roots of Political Activism: Field Experiments on Creating a Relational Context

Han

2016

Am Polit Sci Rev

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This article examines the role that democratic organizations play in fostering political activism in America. Activists make democracy work by attending meetings, engaging others, trying to make their voice heard, and participating in myriad other ways. Yet, we still need a deeper understanding of what role organizations play in cultivating that activism. The article presents data from three field experiments showing that creating a relational organizational context makes targets more likely to sign petitions, recruit others, and attend meetings. The article argues that civic organizations can have a powerful impact on activism. In doing so, it introduces a new set of variables related to organizational context to consider in understanding the sources of participation. The article thus extends a burgeoning body of experimental research on the social bases of voter turnout by examining not only voting but other forms of activism that are increasingly common modes of citizen involvement in the twenty-first century.

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The Organizational Roots of Political Activism: Field Experiments on Creating a Relational Context

Han

2016

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“…Social media has been at the forefront of large collective political actions, including oppositional movements in Egypt, Occupy Wall Street, the Tea Party [127], and the Obama presidential campaign (which had 32 million Facebook friends, 22 million Twitter followers [128], and 300 million YouTube views [129], and digitally raised US $525 million) [127]. Social media can also heighten awareness, frame issues, develop/expand networks, and motivate Web-based and offline collective actions (eg, writing letters, organizing meet-ups, attending hearings/events, registering to vote, and sharing information [112,126,130-132]). For example, an organ donor registration effort by Facebook in 2012, yielded 13,054 new registrations in its first day (21.1 times more than an average day) [133].…”

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Engaging Moms on Teen Indoor Tanning Through Social Media: Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial

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BackgroundIndoor tanning elevates the risk for melanoma, which is now the most common cancer in US women aged 25-29. Public policies restricting access to indoor tanning by minors to reduce melanoma morbidity and mortality in teens are emerging. In the United States, the most common policy restricting indoor tanning in minors involves parents providing either written or in person consent for the minor to purchase a tanning visit. The effectiveness of this policy relies on parents being properly educated about the harms of indoor tanning to their children.ObjectiveThis randomized controlled trial will test the efficacy of a Facebook-delivered health communication intervention targeting mothers of teenage girls. The intervention will use health communication and behavioral modification strategies to reduce mothers’ permissiveness regarding their teenage daughters’ use of indoor tanning relative to an attention-control condition with the ultimate goal of reducing indoor tanning in both daughters and mothers.MethodsThe study is a 12-month randomized controlled trial comparing 2 conditions: an attention control Facebook private group where content will be relevant to teen health with 25% focused on prescription drug abuse, a topic unrelated to tanning; and the intervention condition will enter participants into a Facebook private group where 25% of the teen health content will be focused on indoor tanning. A cohort of 2000 mother-teen daughter dyads will be recruited to participate in this study. Only mothers will participate in the Facebook groups. Both mothers and daughters will complete measures at baseline, end of intervention (1-year) and 6 months post-intervention. Primary outcomes include mothers’ permissiveness regarding their teenage daughters’ use of indoor tanning, teenage daughters’ perception of their mothers’ permissiveness, and indoor tanning by both mothers and daughters.ResultsThe first dyad was enrolled on March 31, 2016, and we anticipate completing this study by October 2019.ConclusionsThis trial will deliver social media content grounded in theory and will test it in a randomized design with state-of-the-art measures. This will contribute much needed insights on how to employ social media for health behavior change and disease prevention both for indoor tanning and other health risk behaviors and inform future social media efforts by public health and health care organizations.ClinicalTrialClinicaltrials.gov NCT02835807; https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02835807 (Archived by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/6mDMICcCE).

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“…They tell us that social media sites help to shape public opinion (Mutz and Young 2011) and that social pressures exerted on Facebook can significantly alter voter turnout (Bond et al 2012). They show how social media are used in revolutions and political campaigns (Bimber 2014; Tufekci and Wilson 2012; Zhang et al 2010), as well as their effect on traditional forms of political activism (Bode 2012; Karpf 2012). But despite their diversity, all of these scholars approach social media primarily as a tool with which users transmit ideas; we have yet to fully engage with the political dynamics of the communities they form and to study how site architectures might invite or prevent certain kinds of political activity by creating different spaces.…”

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The Architecture of Political Spaces: Trolls, Digital Media, and Deweyan Democracy

Forestal

2017

Am Polit Sci Rev

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The problem of trolls exemplifies the challenges of building democratic communities in the digital environment of social media. Distinguishing trolls from activists can be difficult; democratic theorists have yet to adequately address how to prevent the former while remaining open to the latter. In this article, I outline a theory of democratic politics that takes space as a central element in shaping democratic interactions. Using the work of John Dewey, I draw out two key characteristics of democratic space: boundedness and flexibility. Using these criteria, I then evaluate Kinja, Gawker Media's commenting platform, both before and after trolls attacked the site in 2014. I find that in altering its boundaries to successfully protect against trolls, Kinja introduced a new problem: a lack of flexibility that continues to affect the possibility for democratic discourse on the platform. I conclude by suggesting how this theory of democratic space might shape future research.

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The New Generation of Political Advocacy Groups

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The Organizational Roots of Political Activism: Field Experiments on Creating a Relational Context

The Organizational Roots of Political Activism: Field Experiments on Creating a Relational Context

Engaging Moms on Teen Indoor Tanning Through Social Media: Protocol of a Randomized Controlled Trial

The Architecture of Political Spaces: Trolls, Digital Media, and Deweyan Democracy

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