Helen Margetts

Political Turbulence

How Social Media Shape Collective Action

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As people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, they are being invited to support myriad political causes by sharing, liking, endorsing, or downloading. Chain reactions caused by these tiny acts of participation form a growing part of collective action today, from neighborhood campaigns to global political movements. Political Turbulence reveals that, in fact, most attempts at collective action online don't succeed, but some give rise to huge mobilizations--even revolutions. This book demonstrates how data science and experimentation with social data can provide a methodological to… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: John, Peter / Hale, Scott / Yasseri, Taha

ISBN: 978-0-691-15922-5
EAN: 9780691159225
Produktnummer: 18019960
Verlag: Princeton Univers. Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Masse: H24.1 cm x B15.9 cm x D3.0 cm 569 g
Abbildungen: 33
Gewicht: 569

Über den Autor

Helen Margetts is professor of society and the Internet and director of the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. Peter John is professor of political science and public policy at University College London. Scott Hale is a data scientist at the Oxford Internet Institute. Taha Yasseri is a research fellow in computational social science at the Oxford Internet Institute.