Collective Action, Civic Engagement, and the Knowledge Commons

2006 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Knowledge Commons

Parades, Picketing, and Demonstrations

2021 ◽  
pp. 368-388
Author(s):  
Timothy Zick
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
The United States ◽  
Collective Modes ◽  
Individual Autonomy ◽  
The Government

This chapter focuses on parades, pickets, and demonstrations, which are forms of civic engagement that communicate aspirations, ideas, and, quite often, dissenting opinions to fellow citizens, governments, and broader audiences. For many, gathering together in public, in these and similar forms, is a cathartic act of self-fulfilment and a demonstration of solidarity. Collective action in the form of public gatherings is an integral part of any system of communicative freedom. In the United States, in addition to the freedom of speech, rights to ‘peaceably assemble’ and to ‘petition the Government for a redress of grievances’ are explicitly provided for in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Ultimately, parades, pickets, and demonstrations all further basic expressive values relating to self-governance, the search for truth, and individual autonomy. Nevertheless, Americans seeking to engage in collective modes of expression face a variety of doctrinal, legal, social, and political challenges. The chapter then details how digital connectivity has facilitated expressive opportunities by connecting individuals and supporting new forms of associational activity.

scholarly journals Collective Action as Civic Engagement

2012 ◽  
pp. 119-134
Author(s):  
Martijn van Zomeren ◽  
Tom Postmes ◽  
Russell Spears
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Civic Engagement

"Feel That You Are Doing Something": Participatory Culture Civics

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neta Kligler-Vilenchik ◽  
Sangita Shresthova
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Peer Networks ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Invisible Children

Young people’s civic engagement through online communities and peer networks has received increased at- tention in recent years. This paper examines groups rooted within participatory cultures, which mobilize their participants toward explicit civic goals. We draw on our research of Invisible Children and the Harry Potter Alliance—two media-centric, youth-oriented, participatory organizations—to identify their distinctive prac- tices. Building on our analysis, we propose that both organizations engage in “Participatory Culture Civics” (PCC) as they support organized collective action towards civic goals, while building on the affordances of participatory culture. We describe three innovative PCC practices employed by these groups: Build Communities, Tell Stories, and Produce Media. The organizations’ ability to combine civic goals with the pleasures of participatory culture allows them to successfully engage young people. However, both organizations struggle to balance between the creative and community-based tenets of participatory culture, and the focused, product-driven goals of a civic engagement organization.

scholarly journals Nye former for samfunnsengasjement og kollektiv handling

2018 ◽  
pp. 7-30
Author(s):  
Bernard Enjolras ◽  
Ivar Eimhjellen
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Digital Networks ◽  
Formal Organizations ◽  
Selective Incentives ◽  
Connective Action ◽  
New Form

This chapter introduces the book’s main topics and analytical frame. With the development of societal meta-processes of change such as digitalization, individualization and globalization, the condition of collective action are under transformation. The main question, addressed by this book, is whether a new form of collective action – connective action – can be empirically identified when looking at the late developments in Norway. The need for formal organizations and selective incentives has been emphasized as a solution to the “collective action problem”. Digitalization, by enabling “organizing without organizations” is expected to enhance new forms of collective action that are more individualized and do not require formal organizations. Additionally, since digital networks cross territorial boundaries, collective action is expected to take a transnational character. With such a backdrop, the contributions assembled in this book, based on extensive empirical investigations, examine the extent to which digitalization transforms civic engagement, whether the boundary between volunteerism and political activism are becoming increasingly blurred, whether new organizing forms are emerging in the wake of digitalization, and whether it is possible to identify new forms of transnational collective action. Taken together, the contributions to this book do not support the emergence of a new form of collective action. On the contrary, in spite of the transformations affecting the forms of collective action and civic engagement, the empirical evidence emphasize the continued importance of the infrastructure constituted of civil society organizations for supporting collective action.

scholarly journals “That’s How Revolutions Happen”: Psychopolitical Resistance in Youth’s Online Civic Engagement

2021 ◽  
pp. 074355842110621
Author(s):  
Sara Wilf ◽  
Laura Wray-Lake
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Youth Civic Engagement ◽  
Generation Immigrant ◽  
Inductive Constant ◽  
Building Community ◽  
Constant Comparative Analysis

This paper describes forms of online youth civic engagement that center the experiences of youth with historically marginalized identities and documents ways that youth are civically engaged. Twenty U.S.-based, digitally active youth ages 16 to 21 years old were interviewed. Seven participants (35%) identified as female, nine (45%) as male, and four (20%) as gender nonbinary. Twelve (60%) identified as a first or second generation immigrant. Youth were recruited through youth-led movement accounts on Twitter and contacted via Direct Messaging. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with youth between March and September 2020, a period spanning the outbreak of COVID-19 and rise in participation in the Black Lives Matter movement. Inductive Constant Comparative Analysis was used to document forms of youth civic engagement on social media and understand how youth ascribed meaning to their civic engagement. Framed by literature on critical consciousness and psychopolitical resistance to oppression, findings highlight three forms of online youth civic engagement: Restorying, Building Community, and Taking Collective Action. These findings indicate that, for youth with identities that have historically been marginalized, social media is an important context to be civically engaged in ways that resist oppression and injustice.

The Urban Ethnic Community and Collective Action: Politics, Protest, and Civic Engagement by Hmong Americans in Minneapolis–St. Paul

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Hein
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Public Institutions ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Ethnic Newspapers ◽  
Hmong Americans

This paper replicates and extends Sampson et al.'s (2005) collective efficacy explanation of civic action events to ethnic communities formed through international migration. It examines political, social movement, and civic collective action of Hmong Americans in Minneapolis–St. Paul through a content analysis of events reported in one of the community's ethnic newspapers from 2002 to 2011 (N = 541). Initially a dispersed group of refugees from Laos, by the early 2000s, 25 percent of all Hmong Americans lived in the Minneapolis–St. Paul metropolitan area. Most (68 percent) of their collective action is for civic engagement, not politics or protest. This civic engagement is mostly for socioeconomic improvement (53 percent) but also social solidarity (47 percent). As Sampson et al. found in Chicago, the spatial distribution of Hmong collective action is shaped more by the location of ethnic and public institutions than by ethnic residential concentration. The paper concludes that the analysis of collective action events in ethnic communities should combine social ecology, institutional, and interactional models.

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