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Recruitment to high-risk activism: The case of Freedom Summer.
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This paper argued for the importance of a distinction between "low-and high-risk/cost activism" and outlined a model or recruitment to the latter, emphasizing the import of low-risk and high-cost activism.Abstract:
This article proposes and argues for the importance of a distinction between "low-" and "high-risk/cost activism" and outlines a model or recruitment to the latter. The model emphasizes the importa...read more
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Why participate? An intersectional analysis of LGBTQ people of color activism in Canada
TL;DR: The recent Black Lives Matter disruptions of Pride marches in Toronto and Montreal have brought to light a persistent conflict over the exclusion of people of color within LGBTQ movements in Canada as mentioned in this paper, highlighting the need to be more sensitive to marginalized communities.
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Mass Media and the Diffusion of Collective Action in Authoritarian Regimes: The June 1953 East German Uprising
TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between municipality-level protest events and Radio in the American Sector (RIAS) broadcasts and found that social ties played an important role in the swift diffusion of anti-regime collective action.
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Was the Revolution Tweeted? Social Media and the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how Internet technologies were used in challenging the Ben Ali regime and found that they played a significant role in Tunisia's successful 2011-2013 "Jasmine Revolution".
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Social Media and Protest Attitudes During Movement Abeyance: A Study of Hong Kong University Students
TL;DR: In this paper, a survey of university students in Hong Kong in March 2019, several months before the onset of the antiextradition bill protests, the findings show that political use of social media related to how young people evaluate the Umbrella Movement, the previous peak of mobilization in the city.
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The Apathy Syndrome: How We Are Trained Not to Care about Politics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the thinking and feeling processes involved in the production of apolitical attitudes, paying particular attention to their social and cultural context, and explored the apathy syndrome, a combination of emotional mechanisms and cultural norms that produce political apathy.
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Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory
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Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements
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