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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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A spatial analysis of the impact of West German television on protest mobilization during the East German revolution
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed dataset on protest events during the 1989 East German revolution and exploits the fact that West German television broadcasts could be received in most but not all parts of East Germany.
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Black Movements Need Black Theorizing: Exposing Implicit Whiteness in Political Process Theory
TL;DR: The history of racism in the United States has produced a paradox in social movement literature: blackness shaped the character and substance of black antiracist mobilization, but whiteness shapes most analysis of their efforts as mentioned in this paper.
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Assessing the Bias in Communication Networks Sampled from Twitter
TL;DR: It is found that the search API over-represents the more central users and does not offer an accurate picture of peripheral activity; the implications of this bias for the study of diffusion dynamics and collective action in the digital era are discussed.
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The strength of long-range ties in population-scale social networks
TL;DR: Using data from millions of twitter and mobile phone subscribers, Park et al. find that long-range ties are nearly as strong as social ties embedded within a small circle of friends, which have important implications for diffusion and social integration.
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Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory
John D. McCarthy,Mayer N. Zald +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a set of concepts and related propositions drawn from a resource mobilization perspective, emphasizing the variety and sources of resources; the relationship of social movements to the media, authorities, and other parties; and the interaction among movement organizations.
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Self-perception theory
TL;DR: Self-perception theory as discussed by the authors states that individuals come to know their own attitudes, emotions, and other internal states partially by inferring them from observations of their own overt behavior and/or the circumstances in which this behavior occurs.
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Resource Mobilization Theory and the Study of Social Movements
TL;DR: In this paper, a multifactored model of social movement formation is presented, emphasizing resources, organization, and political opportunities in addition to traditional discontent hypotheses, and the McCarthy-Zald theory of entrepreneurial mobilization is critically assessed as an interpretation of the social movements of the 1960s-1970s.