Student Activism, Resource Mobilization, and New Tactical Repertoires in the "Digital Age"

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Abstract

In this chapter, the theoretical, conceptual, and practical implications of information and communications technologies (ICTs) – to include the Internet, broadly conceived, and evolving social and new media technologies more specifically – for contemporary student activism in postsecondary contexts are explored. An alternative and activist new media framework will be used to operationalize how technological resources are tactically employed in the social movement work of student organizers.

Author

• Charles Harold Frederick Davis, University of Southern California