Aoir'ers- here is some info on my new co-edited volume, due in february. Routledge is offering a discount if ordered before 3/30, direct from them. Am proud to say this collection features some very nice contributions from fellow Aoir'ers. Email me privately if you would like a .pdf form to print and fill out for ordering, or distribute to others. best, mike ayers. Cyberactivism Online Activism in Theory and Practice Routledge Press, New York, NY Edited by Martha McCaughey and Michael D. Ayers Cyberactivism is a timely collection of essays examining the growing importance of online activism. The contributors show how online activists have not only incorporated recent technology as a tool for change, but also how they have changed the meaning of activism, what community means, and how they conceive of collective identity and democratic change. Topics addressed range from the Zapatista movement's use of the web to promote their cause globally to the establishment of alternative media sources like indymedia.org to the direct action of "hacktivists" who disrupt commercial computer networks. Cyberactivism is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding the impact of the Internet on politics today. 6 x 9 : 336 pp Routledge 20% Discount expires 3/30/03 Hb: 0-415-91232-6: US: $85.00 US SALE: $68.00 [Can. $128.00 Can. SALE: $102.00] Pb: 0-415-91233-4: US: $19.95 US SALE: $15.95 [Can. $29.95 Can. SALE: $23.95] Table of Contents Introduction Martha McCaughey and Michael D. Ayers I. Cyber-Social Movements Emerging Online 1. Internet Protests, from Text to Web Laura J. Gurak and John Logie 2. Indymedia.org: A New Communication Commons Dorothy Kidd 3. Classifying Forms of Online Activism: The Case of Cyberprotests Against the World Bank Sandor Vegh 4. The Radicalization of Zeke Speir: How the Internet Contributes to Civic Engagement and New Forms of Social Capital Theorizing Online Activism Larry Elin II. Theorizing Online Activism 5. Democracy, New Social Movements, and the Internet: A Habermasian Analysis Lee Salter 6. Comparing Collective Identity in Onlien and Offline Feminist Acivists Michael D. Ayers 7. Mapping Networks of Support for Zapatista Movement: Applying Social Networks Analysis to Study Cotemporary Social Movements Maria Garrido and Alexander Halavais 8. Identifying with Information: Citizen Empowerment, the Internet, and the Environmental Anti-Toxins Movement Wyatt Galusky III. Cautionary Readings of Community, Empowerment, and Capitalism Online 9. Wiring Human-Rights Activism: Amnesty International and the Challenges of Information and Communication Technologies Joanne Lebert 10. Ethic Online Communities: Between Profit and Purpose Steven McLaine 11. Gay Media, Inc.: Media Structures, The New Gay conglomerates, and Collective Sexual Identities Joshua Gamson Epilogue: Current Directions and Future Questions David Silver Routledge 29 West 35th St New York, NY 10001 EXAMINATION COPIES Taylor & Francis offers a 90-day approval period to academics. The book will be accompanied by an invoice dated 90 days from the time we process your order. If you adopt 10 or more copies of the title for your course, the examination copy is yours free. Return the invoice with the course information and purchase order number provided by your bookstore. If you wish to keep the book, but do not wish to adopt it, please pay the amount shown on the invoice, or return the book to us and the invoice will be canceled. To receive an examination copy please send your request to the following address: Taylor & Francis Customer Service Group, Att:SG, 7625 Empire Drive, Florence, KY 41042. Please allow up to four weeks for delivery. 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