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Cookie akzeptieren- Springer International Publishing
- 2019
- Taschenbuch
- 276 Seiten
- ISBN 9783030131494
Beyond Slacktivism examines how routine social media use shapes political participation. Many commentators have argued that activism has been compromised by ¿slacktivism,¿ a pejorative term that refers to supposedly inauthentic, low-threshold forms of engagement online. Dennis argues that this critique has an overly narrow focus. He offers a novel theoretical framework¿the continuum of participation¿to help illuminate how and why citizens use social networking sites to consume news, discuss civic matters, and engage in politics. This idea is explored in two interrelated settings. Firstly, in an activist context, through an ethnography of the campaigning organisation 38 Degrees. Secondly, within day-to-day life, by combining evidence of behaviour online
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