Advocacy, Activism, and the Internet: Community Organization and Social Policy

By: Hick, Steven

This groundbreaking new book illustrates how the internet and other electronic resources are currently affecting social work practice. Rapidly emerging technologies have facilitated economic globalization and created a host of new issues for social workers to address. At the same time these technologies have become key tools for social activism and advocacy. Practitioners must understand the changes in social policy advocacy and community activism that these technological advances bring and learn to formulate new skills to utilize them to their advantage. Advocacy, Activism, and the Internet discusses the use of the internet as a tool for instigating social change at the local, state, national, and international levels. The authors show how technology affects social work practice directly through new methods and indirectly by affecting the communities that practitioners serve. It provides channels for e-advocacy as well as a thorough exploration of the major theoretical, practice, and research perspectives that inform electronic activism. This book solidly integrates new on-line advocacy skills with traditional methods and unites research on internet communities with macro social work theory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190615753
• ISBN13: 9780190615758
• Release Date: August 1970
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

At last! Internet Advocacy Revealed

Despite its social work bent, this book is a winner for everyone interesting in using the 'Net to influence public opinion and/or public policy. It combines case examples, theory, and enthusiasm to describe, analyze and prescribe (in limited quantity) how those interested in social change can harness the power of 'Net to accomplish their goals. As the first work of its kind, the book captures a lot of wisdom, experience and analysis about how and why the 'Net is an appropriate vehicle, its limitations, and its power in advocating for social change. Practitioners and scholars will find this book extremely useful.