A Cyber-archaeology Approach to Social Movement Research——Framework and Case Study 英文资料.pdfVIP

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication A Cyber-archaeology Approach to Social Movement Research: Framework and Case Study D. Zimbra Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of Arizona A. Abbasi Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee H. Chen Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of Arizona This paper presents a cyber-archaeology approach to social movement research. The approach overcomes many of the issues of scale and complexity facing social research in the Internet, enabling broad and longitudinal study of the virtual communities supporting social movements. Cultural cyber-artifacts of significance to the social movement are collected and classified using automated techniques, enabling analysis across multiple related virtual communities. Approaches to the analysis of cyber-artifacts are guided by perspectives of social movement theory. A case study on a broad group of related social movement virtual communities is presented to demonstrate the efficacy of the framework, and provide a detailed instantiation of the proposed approach for evaluation. doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2010.01531.x Since the 1990s, the Internet has been instrumental in the advancement of many social movements. An early and well-cited example of the effective use of computer- mediated communication (CMC) for activism and protest is the case of the Zapatista movement and the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) in their rebellion against the ongoing colonial repression of the indigenous people in Mexico (Collier, 1994; Cleaver, 1995). The Zapatista movement leveraged the Internet and CMC ‘‘for the dissemination of information, the sharing of experience, and the facilitation of discussion and organizing . . . (and) for the amplification and archiving of the developing history of the struggle’’ (Cleaver, 19