Technological Transformations in Collective Action in Aotearoa New Zealand

• In Event: Social Media and the New Politics of Engagement Across the Lifespan

Abstract

While commentators maintain that digital technologies have made formal activist organisations redundant, this project questions that proposition by examining how emerging and established forms of social justice organising intersect in the new technological environment. It addresses major debates about technology and collective action by asking three questions about (a) relationships between technology and the efficacy of individual activists across formal and informal contexts; (b) the impact of digital technologies on formal and informal forms of participation; and (c) relationships between technology and the formation of collective action goals across formal organisations and informal groups.

Author

• Shiv Ganesh, Massey University