Online Collective Action Dynamics of the Crowd in Social Media /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Agarwal, Nitin (Editor), Lim, Merlyna (Editor), Wigand, Rolf T. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Social Networks,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Application software.; Behavioral sciences.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Sociology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Computer Science.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Sociology, general.; Personality and Social Psychology.; Behavioral Sciences.

This work addresses the gap in the current collective action literature exposed by the new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) landscape by bringing together qualitative and quantitative studies from computational and social sciences. The book offers a rigorous and systematic investiga...