Civic Engagement and Social Media

1. Introduction: Social Media and Civic Engagement
Julie Uldam, Anne Vestergaard

Part I. Formal Modes of Civic Engagement and Cooperation with Institutional Actors

2. Online Activism, CSR and Institutional Change
Frank G. A. Bakker

3. Why Some Political Opportunities Succeed and Others Fail: Bridging Organizational Levels in the Case of Spanish Occupy
Itziar Castelló, David Barberá

4. Responsible Retailing in the Greek Crisis? Corporate Engagement, CSR Communication, and Social Media
Eleftheria J. Lekakis

Part II. Informal Modes of Civic Engagement, Enacting Alternatives and Sustaining Involvement

5. Technologies of Self-Mediation: Affordances and Constraints of Social Media for Protest Movements
Bart Cammaerts

6. When Narratives Travel: The Occupy Movement in Latvia and Sweden
Anne Kaun

7. Corporate Management of Visibility: Social Media and Surveillance
Julie Uldam

8. From Creation to Amplification: Occupy Wall Street’s Transition into an Online Populist Movement
Emil Husted

9. Nurturing Dissent? Community Printshops in 1970s London
Jess Baines

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Media Studies, Social Media, Social Sciences, general, Regional and Cultural Studies, Media Law, Online Marketing/Social Media