Local Environmentalism and the Internet

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ID4851739
AuthorsDave Horton (corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume13
Issue4
Pages734-753
Publication date2004-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEnvironmental Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0964401042000274304
OpenAlexW1991972977
LanguageEN
Citations received11

Across high consumption societies, recent years have seen a dramatic rise in access to and use of the Internet. This paper argues that, in contrast to their relationships with other mobile technologies of the car and television, environmental activists have enthusiastically embraced computer technologies in general and the Internet in particular. Why? Because, unlike either the car or the television, use of the Internet among environmental activists promotes embodied participation in a 'local' green community, a community of choice. The paper discusses the ways in which everyday community life among environmental activists is being reproduced and reconfigured by the Internet, and sets out three specific categories of email important to local environmental activism. The central argument of the paper is that the Internet has quickly become enormously significant to a 'local' environmental activist culture, but rather than altogether transform this culture, Internet technologies have been incorporated into, and are used to promote, an already distinctive cultural way of life

Advertising · Business · Embodied cognition · Environmentalism · Everyday life · Internet privacy · Local community · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social science · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Law · Social Media and Politics

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