Political Turbulence :How Social Media Shape Collective Action

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Political Turbulence

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 do not succeed, but some give rise to huge mobilizations--even revolutions. Drawing on large-scale data generated from the Internet and real-world events, this book shows how mobilizations that succeed are unpredictable, unstable, and often unsustainable. To better understand this unruly new force in the political world, the authors use experiments that test how social media influence citizens deciding whether or not to participate. They show how different personality types react to social influences and identify which types of people are willing to participate at an early stage in a mobilization when there are few supporters or signals of viability. The authors argue that pluralism is the model of democracy that is emerging in the social media age--not the ordered, organized vision of early pluralists, but a chaotic, turbulent form of politics. This book demonstrates how data science and experimentation with social data can provide a methodological toolkit for understanding, shaping, and perhaps even predicting the outcomes of this democratic turbulence.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780691177922
ISBN10 0691177929
Number Of Pages 304
Item Weight 1000 g
Publisher / Reseller Princeton University Press
Format paperback
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One of The Guardian's Best Politics Books of 2016, chosen by Gaby Hinsliff "[C]ontributes an important series of creatively and rigorously researched insights into the social mechanics of Internet-based collective action, handing researchers a new toolbox of methods and techniques in the process."--Science "A comprehensive study."--Ivor Gaber, Times Higher Education "A revelatory study."--Stuart Weir, Open Democracy UK "Sheds interesting light on the year's great upheavals."--Gaby Hinsliff, Guardian Best Politics Books of 2016

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Author's Bio

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.

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