Chapter 7

Cyber-Enabled Social Movement Organizations

The rapid development and wide adoption of Internet and mobile technologies have drastically changed the way people, communities, and organizations communicate and interact. Online media, in particular social media, such as news websites and reader feedback, online newsgroups and forums, chat rooms, blogs, and various social networking sites have been ubiquitously integrated into everyday life. With active participation in the huge Internet and mobile platform (e.g. mobile phones) user base, the increasing socialization of technology use, and intensified continuous interaction between online and offline activities, cyberspace is becoming as real as the physical world, bringing about a fundamental ...

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