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Title:
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ICTs, AN ALTERNATIVE SPHERE FOR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN PAKISTAN-A RESEARCH FRAMEWORK |
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Author(s):
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Saqib Saeed , Markus Rohde , Volker Wulf |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8924-55-3 |
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Editors:
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Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2008 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Social Movements, Cyber Protest, Virtual Campaigning, ICTs |
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Type:
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Short Paper |
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First Page:
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523 |
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Last Page:
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526 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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The Internet and other ICTs have tremendous potential to serve as tools for information dissemination and organizing
protest along with traditional mobilization methodologies for social movements. The use of new media is becoming
increasingly important in developed countries but social movements in developing countries quite often are not
accustomed to ICT usage. In this paper we discuss a research framework to investigate IT usage in mobilization and the
information dissemination process of Pakistani civil society. We have studied a recent movement in Pakistan and found
that people have started using web as a resource for information dissemination and for staging online and offline
protesting. This paper emphasize that although there are initial signs that people start to use these technologies, there is
growing need to empirically investigate the Pakistani civil society for ICT usage in mobilization process. |
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