Social Movements and ICTs: Addressing Complexity and Contingency
It is hard to deny that how Information and Communication Technologies are used by social movements is an issue of great importance. However, it is equally difficult to ascribe meaning to such use - it remains a contested topic within academia and in popular media. In this thesis I develop, demonstr...
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2017
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| author | Gill, Gerard Andrew |
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| description | It is hard to deny that how Information and Communication Technologies are used by social movements is an issue of great importance. However, it is equally difficult to ascribe meaning to such use - it remains a contested topic within academia and in popular media. In this thesis I develop, demonstrate, and test a unique approach to studying ICT use in social movements which is informed by complexity theory and phronetic social science. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-540882017-08-07T06:37:31Z Social Movements and ICTs: Addressing Complexity and Contingency Gill, Gerard Andrew It is hard to deny that how Information and Communication Technologies are used by social movements is an issue of great importance. However, it is equally difficult to ascribe meaning to such use - it remains a contested topic within academia and in popular media. In this thesis I develop, demonstrate, and test a unique approach to studying ICT use in social movements which is informed by complexity theory and phronetic social science. 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54088 Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Gill, Gerard Andrew Social Movements and ICTs: Addressing Complexity and Contingency |
| title | Social Movements and ICTs: Addressing Complexity and Contingency |
| title_full | Social Movements and ICTs: Addressing Complexity and Contingency |
| title_fullStr | Social Movements and ICTs: Addressing Complexity and Contingency |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social Movements and ICTs: Addressing Complexity and Contingency |
| title_short | Social Movements and ICTs: Addressing Complexity and Contingency |
| title_sort | social movements and icts: addressing complexity and contingency |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54088 |