Online Collective Action: Dynamics of the Crowd in Social Media

摘要: This work addresses the gap in current collective action literature exposed by new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) landscape bringing together qualitative quantitative studies from computational social sciences. The book offers a rigorous systematic investigation of both methodological theoretical underpinnings and, thus, collectively promotes symbiotic synergistic advancement multiple interconnected disciplines studying online actions. More specifically, is intended to illuminate several fundamental powerful yet theoretically undeveloped largely unexplored aspects participatory media (e.g., media). Through in-depth exploration relevant concepts, theories, methodologies, applications, case studies, reader will gain an advanced understanding with advent generation ICTs enabled Internet. developed theories be valuable comprehensive references for those interested examining role not only but also decision policy making, dynamics interaction, collaboration, cooperation, communication, as well information flow propagation, network research years come. Further, serves extensive repository data sets tools that can used researchers leading deeper more crowd