W lance bennett and alexandra segerberg, the logic of connective action. The logic of connective action is a work of brilliance, and an instant classic. This suggests the following, stronger interpretation of the sentential connective ifthenelse. A case study of rare disease patient organisations. The logic of connective action explains the rise of a personalized digitally networked politics in which diverse individuals address the common problems of our.
After this document was written, i learned of the following reference that deals with the logic of ifthenelse. The familiar logic of collective action associated with high levels of organizational resources and the formation of collective identities, and the less familiar logic of connective action based on. Pdf the logic of connective action lance bennett academia. Andrew chadwick, professor of political science and codirector of the new political communication unit, royal holloway, university of london from the arab spring to the occupy movement, from turkey to brazil, rapid and unexpected mass mobilizations keep. Collective action refers to action taken together by a group of people whose goal is to enhance their status and achieve a common objective. At the core of this logic is the recognition of digital media as organizing agents. A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. In this brief outline, the results of the logic of collective action are used to explain economic policy decisions. We show that if action operators count as logical symbols, then such a logic has restricted interpolation property iff the number of agents does not. Ab4c5the logic of connective action digital media and.
Cambridge studies in contentious politics includes bibliographical references and index. The logic of connective action offers a framework and a rich set of case studies to explain these increasingly common forms of public engagement with contemporary issues, and to show how they complement more conventional models of collective action in contentious politics. It argues that understanding such variations in largescale action networks requires distinguishing between at least two logics that may be in play. The logic of connective action, we suggest, entails a dynamic of its own and thus deserves analysis on its own analytical terms. Hong kong baptist university hkbu institutional repository. To explore this shift, bennett and segerberg coin the concept of connective action, a form of contentious action based on sharing personalised contents through. The logic of connective action explains the rise of a personalized, digi tally networked politics in which diverse individuals address the common problemsofourtimes,suchaseconomicfairnessandclimatechange. The logic of action is the formal study of action in which formal languages are the main tool of analysis. Health activism and the logic of connective action.
The term connective action can therefore be understood as a specific type or formation of protest action resulting from a distinctive process of mobilization. Cambridge core media, mass communication the logic of connective action by w. It is a term that has formulations and theories in many areas of the social sciences including psychology, sociology, anthropology, political science and economics. The logic of action stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar. Whether youve loved the book or not, if you give your honest and detailed thoughts then people will find new books that are right for them. All books are in clear copy here, and all files are secure so dont worry about it. The logic of connective action shows how political action is coordinated and power is organized in communicationbased networks, and what political outcomes may result. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. The connective thus defined violates almost all of the traditional principles of conditional logic, but it obeys an interesting logic of its own. The logic of connective action asks a timely question, namely how digitally networked action works in an era of increasingly personalised political participation p. The familiar logic of collective action associated with high levels of organizational resources and the formation of collective identities, and the less familiar logic of connective action based on personalized content sharing across media networks. The familiar logic of collective action associated with high levels of organizational resources and the formation of collective identities.
Rich case studies from the united states, the united kingdom, and germany illustrate a theoretical framework for understanding how largescale con. When people who seek more personalized paths to concerted action are familiar with practices of social networking in everyday life, and when they have access to technologies from mobile phones to computers, they are already familiar with a different logic of organization. Digital media and the personalization of contentious politics taylor. It develops a theory of political science and economics of concentrated benefits versus diffuse costs. Some of these action formations contain relatively small roles for formal brick and mortar organizations. The logic of connective action explains the rise of a perso. Other readers will always be interested in your opinion of the books youve read. Rather, we desire to provide a new perspective for internet mediated social movements through an examination of the sunflower student movement. Digital media and the personalization of contentious politics. The logic of connective action explains the rise of a personalized, digi tally networked politics in which diverse individuals address the common problems of. If you have access to a journal via a society or association membership, please browse to your society journal, select an article to view, and follow the instructions in this box.
It explicates how the umbrella movement is similar to but also different from the idealtypical networked social movement and crowdenabled connective action. This site is like a library, you could find million book here by using search box in the header. The logic of connective action explains the rise of a personalized digitally networked politics in which diverse individuals address the common problems of our times such as economic fairness and climate change. Rich case studies from the united states, the united kingdom and germany illustrate a theoretical framework for understanding how largescale connective action is coordinated. The best answer to this question comes from a book that is almost 40 years old. This is an accepted manuscript of an article published by. The logic of connective action s central contribution, discussed in the conclusive chapter, is that it succeeds in its aim to provide a general theoretical framework for understanding protest dynamics that the classic collective action logic does not adequately explain.
Rich case studies from the united states, the united kingdom and germany illustrate a theoretical framework for understanding. Participants in a connective action campaign can initiate and engage in a wide range of activities, many of which are personalized or. Lance bennett, university of washington, seattle, alexandra segerberg, stockholm university. In the former, introducing digital media do not change the core dynamics of the action. The logic of connective action foregrounds a different set of dynamics from the ones just outlined. The analysis shows that the protests followed the logic of connective action based on the use of flexible, easily personalized action frames, which were wellembedded in local cultural narratives referencing the struggle for polands independence and resistance against an oppressive state. The logic of connective action collective action within the household insights from. This exploratory work investigates the role of digital media in expanding health discourse practices in a way to. The logic of collective action by mancur olson explains why some groups are able to have a larger influence on government policy than others. Read online ab4c5the logic of connective action digital media and. By focusing on a sample of rare disease patient organisations as representative of contemporary health activism, this study investigates the role of digital communication in the development of 1 bottomup sharing and coproduction of health knowledge, 2 health public engagement dynamics and 3 health information pathways. Pdf framing processes and social movements an overview collective action within the household insights from collective action recipes in a circular economy on waste ppt social movements powerpoint presentation free. The books premise is that the longterm decline in membership of civic and.
The logic of connective action assets cambridge university press. It explains why the umbrella movement should be seen as a case in which the logic of connective action intervenes into a planned collective action. Social networking has been described as at the centre of these dynamics of engagement. Public goods and the theory of groups is a book by mancur olson, jr. The ones marked may be different from the article in the profile. In logic, a logical connective also called a logical operator, sentential connective, or sentential operator is a symbol or word used to connect two or more sentences of either a formal or a natural language in a grammatically valid way, such that the value of the compound sentence produced depends only on that of the original sentences and on the meaning of the connective. The concept of action is of central interest to many disciplines. The logic of the ternary sentential connective ifthenelse. Pdf the logic of collective action download full pdf. Connective versus collective action in social movements.