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Håkan Johansson.

Håkan Johansson

Professor

Håkan Johansson.

Resources Shifting Values : Online and Offline Resources in Swedish Civil Society

Resurser ändrar värde : Online och offline resurser i det svenska civilsamhället

Author

  • Håkan Johansson
  • Gabriella Scaramuzzino

Editor

  • Zhanna Kravchenko
  • Lisa Kings
  • Katarzyna Jezierska

Summary, in English

Resources have always been at the heart of civil society theorizing. While many earlier theories have focused on resources in the forms of money, people, ideas, or personnel, recent debates highlight the Internet and social media as new environments for resource mobilization. This chapter contributes to current research by comparing the human, economic, and political resources accumulated both offline and online by several social mobilization campaigns active on Swedish Facebook and Twitter; it also discusses the value of different resources and considers whether the use of social media has contributed to a devaluation of the traditional resource base of civil society in Sweden.

Department/s

  • Civil Society and Social Movements
  • School of Social Work

Publishing year

2022-06-09

Language

English

Pages

295-317

Publication/Series

Palgrave studies in third sector research

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

  • Social Work
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Keywords

  • civilsamhället
  • resurser
  • sociala medier
  • protester
  • Sverige
  • mobilisering
  • advocacy

Status

Published

Project

  • Civil society elites? Comparing elite composition, reproduction, integration and contestation in European civil societies
  • Civil society elites? The composition, reproduction and integration of elite groups in Swedish civil society

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-3-030-99007-7
  • ISBN: 978-3-030-99006-0