Overview
- Illuminates fundamental and powerful yet theoretically obscure aspects of collective actions in social media
- Provides a common-platform for diverse researchers to share their research
- Represents a valuable companion for policy and decision makers
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Social Networks (LNSN)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Concepts, Theories, and Methodologies
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Applications
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Case Studies
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About this book
This work addresses the gap in the current collective action literature exposed by the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) landscape by bringing together qualitative and quantitative studies from computational and social sciences. The book offers a rigorous and systematic investigation of both methodological and theoretical underpinnings and, thus, collectively promotes a symbiotic and synergistic advancement of the multiple interconnected disciplines in studying online collective actions. More specifically, the book is intended to illuminate several fundamental and powerful yet theoretically undeveloped and largely unexplored aspects of collective action in the participatory media (e.g., social media). Through in-depth exploration of relevant concepts, theories, methodologies, applications, and case studies, the reader will gain an advanced understanding of collective action with the advent of the new generation of ICTs enabled by social media and the Internet. The developed theories will be valuable and comprehensive references for those interested in examining the role of ICTs not only in collective action but also in decision and policy making, understanding the dynamics of interaction, collaboration, cooperation, communication, as well as information flow and propagation, and social network research for years to come. Further, the book also serves as an extensive repository of data sets and tools that can be used by researchers leading to a deeper and more fundamental understanding of the dynamics of the crowd in online collective actions.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Online Collective Action
Book Subtitle: Dynamics of the Crowd in Social Media
Editors: Nitin Agarwal, Merlyna Lim, Rolf T. Wigand
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Social Networks
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-1340-0
Publisher: Springer Vienna
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Wien 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7091-1339-4Published: 15 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7091-1948-8Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-7091-1340-0Published: 01 August 2014
Series ISSN: 2190-5428
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5436
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 231
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 47 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Complex Systems, Sociology, general, Personality and Social Psychology, Behavioral Sciences, Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems