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UNISA996379042403316 |
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Autore |
Cernison Matteo |
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Social Media Activism : Water as a Common Good / / Matteo Cernison |
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Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2019 |
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©2019 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (245 pages) |
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Collana |
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Protest and social movements |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Privatization - Italy |
Water-supply - Italy |
Social media - Political aspects |
Internet and activism - Italy |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-238) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Models of online-related activism -- Methods for investigating online-related, large-scale campaigns on the web -- Water commons : global movements and the Italian campaign against water privatization -- The web of water : a trace on the links structure -- Patterns of online communication during the referendum campaign -- The campaign for water on Facebook : perceptions and organizational models in a real-digital space of activism -- Reinterpreting the data : new theoretical perspectives and methodological proposals. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book focuses on the referendums against water privatisation in Italy and explores how activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote. Investigating the relationship between social movements and internet-related activism during complex campaigns, this book examines how a technological evolution-the increased relevance of social media platforms-affected in very different ways organisations with divergent characteristics, promoting at the same time decentralised communication practices, and new ways of coordinating dispersed communities of people. Matteo Cernison combines and adapts a wide set of methods, from social network analysis to digital ethnography, in order to explore in detail |
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