Civic Engagement and Social Media

Anne Kaun, Södertörn University, Sweden Bart Cammaerts, LSE, UK Eleftheria Lekakis, University of Sussex, UK Emil Husted, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Frank de Bakker, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands Itziar Castelló, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark David Barberá-Tomas, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Jess Baines, London College of Communication, UK W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

• Introduction. Social Media and Civic Engagement; Julie Uldam and Anne Vestergaard 1. Online Activism and Institutional Change of Corporate Social Responsibility: Towards a Typology; Frank G.A. de Bakker 2. Why Some Political Opportunities Succeed and Others Fail: Bridging Organizational Levels in the Case of Spanish Occupy; Itziar Castelló and David Barbera 3. Responsible Retailing and the Greek Crisis? Corporate Engagement, CSR Communication and Social Media; Eleftheria Lekakis 4. Technologies of Self-Mediation: Affordances and Constraints of Social Media for Protest Movements; Bart Cammaerts 5. When Narratives Travel: The Occupy Movement in Latvia and Sweden; Anne Kaun 6. Corporate Management of Visibility: Social Media and Surveillance; Julie Uldam 7. From Creation to Amplification: Occupy Wall Street's Transition into an Online Populist Movement; Emil Husted 8. Nurturing Dissent? Community Printshops in 1970s London; Jess Baines

"This volume breaks new ground with its rich analyses of how both activist groups and powerful organizations make use of social media; it is a major contribution to our understanding of civic and political dynamics." - Peter Dahlgren, Lund University, Sweden