Here's some references that were posted earlier on this list, many with a SE Asian perspective, but there would be plenty here to get going with. This literature review would be particularly helpful (Garrett) and Jenny Pickerill has done much more recent work in this area. --- Marius Johannessen <marius80@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm about to write an assignment on e-activism for my master's degree, and
It would be kind of you to also share your findings back to this list for next person . . . . Cheers, Denise Garrett, R. K. (2006). Protest in an Information Society: A Review of Literature on Social Movements and New ICTs. Information, Communication and Society, 9(2), 202-224. van de Donk, W., Loader, B., Nixon, P., & D. Rucht (Eds.), (2004). Cyberprotest: New Media, Citizens and social movements. New York: Routledge. Pickerill, J. (2003). Cyberprotest: Environmental activism online. Manchester: Manchester University Press. Myers, D.J. (1994). Communication technology and social movements: contributions of computer networks to activism. Social Science Computer Review 12 (2), 250-260. Hill, K.A. & Hughes, J.E. (1997). Computer mediated communication: the USENET and political communities. Political Communications 14, 3-27. Davis, R. (1999). The web of politics: The Internet's impact on the American political system. New York: Oxford University Press. Ferdinand, P. (2000). The Internet, democracy, and democratization, Portland, OR: Frank Cass. McConnell, S. (2000). A champion in our midst: Lessons learned from the impacts of NGOs' use of the Internet. Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries, 2(5), 1-15. Wilhelm, A. (2000). Democracy in the Digital Age. New York and London: Routledge. Abbott, J. P. (2001). Democracy@internet.asia? The Challenges to the Emancipatory Potential of the Net: Lessons from China and Malaysia. Third World Quarterly, 22(1), 99-114. Armond, P. (2001). Netwar in the emerald city: WTO protest strategy and tactics. In J. Arquilla, and D. Ronfeldt (Eds.), Networks and netwars (pp. 201-238). Santa Monica, CA: Rand. Camacho, K. (2001). The Internet: A tool for social change? Elements of a necessary discussion. The Project Evaluation of the Social Impact of the Internet in Central America: The Case of Civil Society Organisation. Mexico: FLASCO. Warkentin, C. (2001). Reshaping World Politics. 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V., (Ed.): http://www.press.uillinois.edu/epub/books/burton/ch06.html (2003). From Real to Virtual (and Back again): The Internet and Public Sphere in Indonesia. In K.C. Ho, R. Kluver & K. Yang (Eds.) Asia Encounters the Internet. 113-128. London: Routledge. (2003). The Internet, Social Networks and Reform in Indonesia. In N. Couldry & J. Curran (Eds.) Contesting Media Power. Alternative Media in a Networked World 273-288. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield. (2003). Transnational Civil Society and the Internet in an Unregulated Capitalist World System: A Utopian Dream? Response to Surman & Reilly's Appropriating the Internet for Social Change. Report. Geneva: Social Science Research Council (SSRC), IT Governance and the Politics of Civil Society Research Network. Bennett, W. L. (2003). New Media Power: the Internet and Global Activism. In N. Couldry & J. Curran (Eds.) Contesting Media Power. London: Rowman and Littlefield. Diani, M., & D. McAdam (Eds.), (2003). 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Social Science Research Council. Retrieved December 14, 2005 from: http://www.ssrc.org/programs/itic. (2004). Informational Terrains of Identity and Political Power: The Internet in Indonesia. Indonesian Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 27(73), 1-11. Brainard, L.A. & J. M. Brinkerhoff (2004). Lost in cyberspace: Shedding light on the dark matter of grassroots organizations. Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly. 33 (3), 32S-52S. Samuel, A. (2004). Hacktivsim and the Future of Political Participation, Thesis presented to the Department of Government in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject of Political Science: http://www.alexandrasamuel.com/dissertation/pdfs/Samuel-Hacktivism-entire.pd... Sey, A., & M. Castells (2004). From Media Politics to Networked Politics: The Internet and the Political Process. In M. Castells (Ed.) The Network Society: A cross-Cultural Perspective 363-381. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Thelwall, M. and L. Vaughn. (2004). Special Issue on Webometrics. JASIST, 55(14). (2005). Islamic Radicalism and Anti Americanism in Indonesia: The Role of the Internet, Washington DC: East West Center. (2005). The Internet in Indonesia's New Democracy, London and New York: Routledge. de Jong, W., Shaw, M., & N. Stammer (Eds.), (2005). Global Media, Global Activism. United Kingdom: Pluto Press. Davis, R. (2005). Politics On-line: Blogs, chat rooms and discussion Groups in American democracy. New York: Routledge. Hara, N., & Z. C. Estrada (2005). Analyzing the mobilization of grassroots activities via the Internet: A case study. Journal of Information Science, 31(6), 503-514. Also published in FirstMonday, 8(12). http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/hara/index.html Schneider, S. M., & K. A. Foot (2005). Web sphere analysis: an approach to studying online action. In Hine, C. (Ed.), Virtual Methods: Issues in social research on the internet (pp. 157-170). Oxford: Berg Publishers. (2006). Cyber-Urban Activism and the Political Change in Indonesia. EastBound, 1(1), http://www.eastbound.info/journal/2006-1/. Pickard, V. W. (2006). United yet autonomous: Indymedia and the struggle to sustain a radical democratic network. Media Culture & Society, 28, 315-336. Shumate, M., & J. Pike (2006). Trouble in a geographically distributed virtual network organization: Organizing tensions in continental direct action network. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(3), article 8. http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue3/shumate.html Hara, N., & Shachaf, P. (in press). Online peace movement organizations: A comparative analysis. In I. Chen & T. Kidd (Eds.). Social information technology: Connection society and cultural issues. Hershey, PA: Idea Group. Preprint is available at: http://ella.slis.indiana.edu/~nhara/paper/HaraShachaf-peace.pdf Some other helpful links: http://www.policymagic.org/electron2.htm http://www.barnard.edu/sfonline/blogs/ http://www.merlyna.org/pubs Denise N. Rall, PhD Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA Tues: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 Mobile 0438 233 344 http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/esm/staff/pages/drall/ Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK http://cybermetrics.wlv.ac.uk/index.html Get the name you always wanted with the new y7mail email address. www.yahoo7.com.au/y7mail