Jen Schradie's Digital Activism Gap Highlighted in The Society Pages
Jen Schradie's paper, "The Digital Activism Gap: How Class and Costs Shape Online Collective Action,” was highlighted and summarized in The Society Pages' "Discoveries" section.
From the article:
In a perfect world, the Internet would bring people together and give everyone a voice in the public sphere. When it comes to organizational activism for collective bargaining rights in North Carolina, however, Jen Schradie argues that digital technology creates a “treadmill that reproduces inequality,” but that only focusing on online data alone may miss social movement organizing that takes place offline. In her study “The Digital Activism Gap: How Class and Costs Shape Online Collective Action,” Schradie sets out to discover how the digital divide — defined as the economic, educational, and social inequalities between those who have computers and online access and those who do not — influences activism.
"Discoveries" is a section of The Society Pages' website that showcases new and exciting research from academic journals, which are then vetted and summarized by its graduate editorial board.
Read the rest of the TSP article here.
Read Jen Schradie's entire paper here.