Who Can Still Afford to Do Digital Activism?

Pierri, Paola

Who Can Still Afford to Do Digital Activism?

dc.contributor.author	Pierri, Paola
dc.date.accessioned	2023-08-29T14:39:47Z
dc.date.available	2023-08-29T14:39:47Z
dc.date.issued	2022
dc.description.abstract	Digital activism is now considered a widespread form of activism. Studies on its impact and use have proliferated. Most research into this phenomenon has tended to analyze the impact of digital technologies on action and activism. In contrast, this study explores the role of organizations and organizational structures, focusing on internal processes and the functioning of digital campaigning. Based on ethnographic observation and interviews with staff of online campaigning organizations, this paper presents findings on how digital communication and its logic can affect the organization’s internal processes. The paper challenges two established ideas: a) the idea of de-materialization of organizational structures from digital activism; b) that digital platforms tend to support the dissemination of opinions of previously marginalized actors. My fieldwork’s findings demonstrate that the reality in both cases is far more nuanced, with significant identifiable inconsistencies. This research shows that organizations and organizational structures have not de-materialized and that the material conditions of digital activism are key to better understanding this phenomenon and new forms of inequality it might generate.	en
dc.identifier.citation	Pierri, P. (2022). Who Can Still Afford to Do Digital Activism? Exploring the material conditions of online mobilisation. Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society, 2(2). https://doi.org/10.34669/WI.WJDS/2.2.3
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.wjds/2.2.3
dc.identifier.eissn	2748-5625
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.weizenbaum-library.de/handle/id/159
dc.identifier.zdb	3064083-0
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Weizenbaum Institute
dc.rights	open access
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	social movements studies	en
dc.subject	digital inequalities	en
dc.subject	feminist studies	en
dc.subject	digital activism	en
dc.subject.ddc	300 Sozialwissenschaften
dc.title	Who Can Still Afford to Do Digital Activism?
dc.title.subtitle	Exploring the material conditions of online mobilisation	en
dc.type	Article
dc.type.status	publishedVersion
dcmi.type	Text
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue	2
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue	2
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle	Weizenbaum Journal of the Digital Society
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.originalpublisherplace	Berlin
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume	2
local.researchgroup	Ungleichheit und digitale Souveränität
local.researchtopic	Markt – Wettbewerb – Ungleichheit