Going Online for Social Change: Techniques, barriers and possibilities for community groups.
The article discusses the use of the internet by community groups to achieve their aims. It is noted that open source technologies are designed to be collaborative and decentralized. The online techniques used by the Sandon Point Community Picket are cited as an example of how a grassroots activist...
| Publicado en: | Social Alternatives Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 19 - 24 |
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Social Alternatives
2011 First Quarter
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