Among the ways that digital media has transformed political activism, the most remarkable is
not that new media allows disorganized masses to speak, but that it enables organized …

Donald Trump, the Arab Spring, Brexit: digital media have provided political actors and
citizens with new tools to engage in politics. These tools are now routinely used by activists …

How have online protests—like the recent outrage over the Komen Foundation's decision to
defund Planned Parenthood—changed the nature of political action? How do Facebook and …

Much attention has been paid in recent years to the emergence of" Internet activism," but
scholars and pundits disagree about whether online political activity is different in kind from …

This theoretical article explores the bottom-up data practices enacted by individuals and
groups in the context of organized collective action. Conversing with critical media theory …

Digital media strategies are a crucial component of contemporary political campaigns.
Established political elites use database and Internet technologies to raise money, organize …

The days of" revolutionary" campaign strategies are gone. The extraordinary has become
ordinary, and campaigns at all levels, from the federal to the municipal, have realized the …

Over recent decades, research on the Internet and political participation has substantially
developed, from speculative studies on possible impacts in social and economic life to …

Taking Our Country Back presents the previously untold history of the uptake of new media
in Democratic electoral campaigning over the last decade. Drawing on interviews with more …

Rather, we find that controlled or faux interactivity is the norm in electoral political
communication with little opportunity for influence and visitors required to work for the …