Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action

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As people spend increasing proportions of their daily lives using social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, they are being invited to support myriad political causes by sharing, liking, endorsing, or downloading. Chain reactions caused by these tiny acts of participation form a growing part of collective action today, from neighborhood campaigns

Helen Margetts is professor of society and the Internet and director of the Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford. Peter John is professor of political science and public policy at University College London. Scott Hale is a data scientist at the Oxford Internet Institute. Taha Yasseri is a research fellow in computational social science at the Oxford Internet Institute.

One of The Guardian's Best Politics Books of 2016, chosen by Gaby Hinsliff "[C]ontributes an important series of creatively and rigorously researched insights into the social mechanics of Internet-based collective action, handing researchers a new toolbox of methods and techniques in the process."--Science "A comprehensive study."--Ivor Gaber, Times Higher Education "A revelatory study."--Stuart Weir, Open Democracy UK "Sheds interesting light on the year's great upheavals."--Gaby Hinsliff, Guardian Best Politics Books of 2016