Autore
Siapera, Eugenia

Titolo
Comment on Elena Pavan/4. Relations, Connections and Political Action
Periodico
Sociologica
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 20 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 0

This commentary uses Pavan's article as a spring board to pose questions on therelational dynamics between actors in online networks and their role in political mobilizationand action. While accepting Pavan's argument on the importance of these relational dynamics,the commentary asks whether they are determined by factors outside the technology and itspotential and dynamics, while they may also be related to the kind of online action studied: anonline campaign is different to, say, protests. If that is the case, the question is to find a way toincorporate the various pre-existing relationships between actors, as well as the various politicalgoals sought by different movements while also acknowledging the power of the technology tointroduce shifts in the pre-existing dynamics and lead to unexpected outcomes.



SICI: 1971-8853(2013)20:3<0:COEPRC>2.0.ZU;2-G
Testo completo: http://www.rivisteweb.it/download/article/10.2383/75770
Testo completo alternativo: http://www.mulino.it/doi/10.2383/75770

Esportazione dati in Refworks (solo per utenti abilitati)