Thinking Local, Acting Global: Towards an Understanding of the Universal Network

• In Event: Rhetorics of Social Change

Abstract

Past research concerning new social movement networks have envisioned such networks at either the local level or global level. The following paper explicates past research that has addressed new social movement networks from both positions. The paper then works to tie both lines of research together and demonstrate how they demonstrate a symbiotic relationship between the two levels that illustrates new social movements in terms of a Universal Network.

Author

• Joshua Atkinson, Bowling Green State Univ