Environmental website production
A structuration approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11268445 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura Stein (The University of Texas at Austin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 363-384 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Media Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-4437 • E-ISSN: 1460-3675 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0163443710394898 |
| OpenAlex | W2103073979 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
The World Wide Web has excited much speculation, and a growing body of scholarship, about its potential to advance the communicative power of social movement organizations. As a medium that enables online publishing, and selected features and functions, websites could be important in this regard. Yet, studies of social movement websites have documented these groups’ modest uses of the medium, and few scholars have studied the organizational factors shaping social movement website production. In this study, I examine US environmental group website production practices. Drawing on structuration theory, I consider how organizational priorities, processes and resources limit and constrain website production. I use structuration theory to analyse environmental group website production practices as gleaned from semi-structured interviews with 28 environmental group webmasters. I conclude that despite their awareness of the Web’s capabilities, webmasters experience production constraints related to organizational norms, knowledge, and resources. Ultimately, I aim to provide an explanation for studies that find limited uses of the Web among social movement groups, to better understand the processes and practices involved in cultural production online, and to elucidate on some of the challenges website production poses for social movement groups
Business · Economics · Knowledge management · Political science · Production (economics · Public relations · Scholarship · Social media · Sociology · The Internet · Web 2.0 · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Knowledge Management and Sharing · Open Source Software Innovations · Social Media and Politics · Marketing
Engaging stakeholders through social networking
In search of Utopia
New media, new movements? The role of the internet in shaping the ‘anti‐globalization’ movement
Communicating Global Activism
Cultures of Environmentalism
Power in Movement
Social Movements and New Media
New Media and Internet Activism
Social movement web use in theory and practice
The Internet and Political Mobilization
Environmental protest and tap-dancing with the media in the information age
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2012 - 2014 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |