Activist capitals in network societies: Towards a typology for studying networking power within contemporary activist demands
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Activist capitals in network societies: Towards a typology for studying networking power within contemporary activist demands
Network societies are characterized by social media, media that are supposed to level out power hierarchies, making political participation more inclusive and equal. By developing a typology for studying networking power within activist demands in network societies, such technooptimistic/deterministic assumptions are questioned. This typology is based on Bourdieu’s conceptual framework of socia...
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عنوان ژورنال: First Monday
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1396-0466
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v19i8.5207