Environmental activism: new forms of political participation
Research Article
How to Cite
Golbraih V.B. Environmental activism: new forms of political participation. Vlast i Elity (Power and Elites). 2016. Vol. 3. No. 3. P. 98-120. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31119/pe.2016.3.4 (in Russ.).
Abstract
The article deals with new forms of political participation. Due to a growing importance of the Internet in politics and everyday life and especially due to rise of social media, students more and more pay attention at online forms of political participation. Social media become a way of political participation for citizens, who were not involved in political activities previously. At the same time, it is necessary to note a new phenomenon designated as slacktivism. This word designates a participation with low risk and low costs and substitutes traditional political participation. In the course of the study I analyzed new forms of political participation (creation of online petitions, groups in social networks). The study shows that although new forms becomes a widespread form of political participation, to a large extent, these practices at the moment can be defined as slacktivism.
Keywords:
online political participation, environmental activism, slacktivism
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4. Ksenofontova, I.V. Novye solidarnosti v Internete: ot diskussii k dejstviju (na primere dvizhenija “Za chestnye vybory”) [Ksenofontova, I.V. New Solidarity on the Internet: from Discussion to Action (on the Example of the Movement “For Fair Elections”)], Etnografi cheskoe obozrenie, 2 013, 2, pp. 125–137. (In Russian)
5. Onlajn-praktiki rossijan: social’nye seti [Online Practices of Russians: Social Networks], Website FOM, 2016, January 28. [URL: http://fom.ru/SMI-i-internet/12495 (available: 27.07.2017)] (In Russian).
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7. Sadilova A.V. Problemnye aspekty Internet-praktik vzaimodejstvija vlasti i obshhestva [Sadilova A.V. The Problematic Aspects of the Internet Practice of Interaction between Authority and Society], Vestnik Permskogo universiteta. Politologija, 2016, 3, pp. 99–108. (In Russian)
8. Sokolov A. V. Internet-prostranstvo: novye vozmozhnosti dlja politicheskogo uchastija [Sokolov A. V. Internet Space: New Opportunities for Political Participation], Vestnik Permskogo universiteta. Serija: Politologija, 2013, 4, pp. 98–115. (In Russian)
9. Holmskaja M. R. Politicheskoe uchastie kak ob’ekt issledovanija. Obzor otechestvennoj literatury [Holmskaja M. R. Political Participation as an Object of Research. (A Review of Russian Scientific Literature), Polis. Politicheskie issledovanija, 1999, 5, pp. 170–176. (In Russian)
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12. Berg J. b. The dark side of e-petitions? Exploring anonymous signatures, Сайт First Monday, 2017, №2. 06.02.2017, [URL: http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/6001/5910#author, (доступно 25.07.2017)].
13. Conroy M. Feezell J., Guerrero M. Facebook and Political Engagement: A Study of Online Political Group Membership and Offline Political Engagement, Computers in Human Behavior, 2012, 28 (5), pp. 1535–1546.
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18. Jungherr A., Jurgens P. The political click: political participation through e-petitions in Germany, Policy & Internet, 2010, 2 (4), pp. 131–165.
19. Norris P. Count Every Voice: Democratic Participation Worldwide. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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21. Theocharis Y. The Conceptualization of Digitally Networked Participation, 2015, Social Media + Society, 2 (1), pp. 1–14.
22. Theocharis Y., Van Deth J. Th e Continuous Expansion of Citizen Participation: a New Taxonomy // Сайт European Political Science Review, 21.11.2016 [URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773916000230 (доступно 23.07.2017)].
23. Van Deth J. Studying Political Participation: Towards a Theory of Everything? 2001, Introductory paper prepared for delivery at the Joint Sessions of Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research Workshop “Electronic Democracy: Mobilization, Organization and Participation via new ICTs”, Grenoble, 6–11 April 2001. Сайт https://www.academia.edu. [URL: https://www.academia.edu/2233354 (доступно 24.07.2017)].
24. Vie S., Carter D., Meyr J. 2016. Occupy Rhetoric: Responding to Charges of “Slacktivism” With Digital Activism Successes In Handbook of Research on Citizen Engagement and Public Participation in the Era of New Media, ed. by Marco A., Yuping, New York: IGI Global, 2016, pp. 179–193.
25. Wolfsfeld G., Yarchi M., Samuel-Azran T. Political Information Repertoires and Political Participation, New Media & Society, 2016, 18 (9), pp. 2096–2115.
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Golbraih, V.B. 2016. Environmental activism: new forms of political participation. Vlast i Elity (Power and Elites). 3, 3 (Oct. 2016), 98-120. DOI:https://doi.org/10.31119/pe.2016.3.4.
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