The Pew Internet & American Life Project released a report today on social media and politics. It’s no surprise to sociologists that their findings reflect structural inequalities. Perhaps it was a bit of a jolt to digital utopianists, though. Aaron Smith, the author of the Pew report, finds social class divisions with political activity in […]
The Digital Activism Gap – where social class, social media and social movements collide
By schradie on April 24, 2013 in Academia, Blogging, Digital Activism, Digital Divide, Facebook, Labor, Social Movements, Sociology, Tea Party, The South, Twitter, Unions
Is Marriage Equality Bourgeois? Separating a social movement from a social movement organization
Check out my latest post on the debate over people changing their Facebook profile to support the Supreme Court hearing on marriage equality. The post is in Mobilizing Ideas, a social movement studies blog, which is part of The Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame, editorial home of the […]
My upcoming talks this spring…
March 16 Panelist: The Reach of Online Education Conference: Learning Mode – Critical Issues in Online Education The Berkeley Center for New Media 3.30-5:00 pm https://sites.google.com/site/criticalissues315/home March 19 Guest Lecturer: Political Sociology Course, Professor Laura Enriquez “An Internet Update Since Gitlin’s The Whole World is Watching” Sociology Department, UC Berkeley 9.40am-11.00am April 11 Guest Lecturer: Social and Organizational […]
How Occupy Influenced the Election – Beyond the Pepper Spraying Cop
Check out my latest post on a case study of how Occupy influenced the elections in California in Mobilizing Ideas, a social movement studies blog, which is part of The Center for the Study of Social Movements at the University of Notre Dame, editorial home of the academic journal Mobilization. Here’s the lede: “With all […]
