EAN: 9783319784137

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN SOCIOLOGY COLLECTIVITY AND ...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the manifestations and interrelations of
collectivity and power on the internet from a sociological point of view. It addresses
questions on how different forms of internet-based collectivities (masses  crowds  movements 
communities ) could be understood and differentiated from one another. It presents analyses on
the role technical infrastructures of the web play for their formation  how the mobilization
and organization of social movements and social protests has changed through social media  how
work and decision-making processes are organized in open source communities and why the
essential segments of the commercial internet are today concentrated in the hands of a few
corporations who dispose over significant economic  infrastructural and rule-setting power.

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