SOCIAL ACTIVISM ON SOCIAL NETWORKS SITES Cover Image

ДРУШТВЕНО-АКТИВИСТИЧКИ ПОТЕНЦИЈАЛ ОНЛАЈН ПЛАТФОРМИ ЗА ДРУШТВЕНО УМРЕЖАВАЊЕ
SOCIAL ACTIVISM ON SOCIAL NETWORKS SITES

Author(s): Dalibor Petrović
Subject(s): Evaluation research, Social Informatics, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Српско социолошко друштво
Keywords: online activism; grassroots movements; Facebook; public sphere;

Summary/Abstract: From the very beginning the internet has been often perceived as a miraculous cure for accumulated social problems of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century and, in the same time and perhaps more often, has been denied any activistic potential. The aim of this paper was to explore and identify the real potential of the internet as a mean of civic activism. At the theoretical level, the internet is defined as a technology that can be used to support but also to undermine the social hierarchy, as such representing Feenberg`s (2002) two fundamental principles of each technology functioning. In this regard, starting from Castells (Kastels 2014) idea that citizens via the internet may undermine one of the two fundamental sources of power-the power of communication.

  • Issue Year: 50/2016
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 397-430
  • Page Count: 34
  • Language: Serbian