Environmental movements are networks of informal interactions that may include
individuals, groups, and organizations engaged in collective action motivated by shared …

Power in communication takes two main forms. As 'external'power, it consists in the ability to
acknowledge or disregard a speaker or a discourse. As 'internal'power, it is the ability of an …

Este primer volumen está dedicado a examinar la lógica de la red. Tras analizar la
revolución tecnológica que está modificando la base de la sociedad a un ritmo acelerado …

In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface
following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political …

We present a theory of the basis of support for a social movement. Three types of support
(citizenship actions, policy support and acceptance, and personal-sphere behaviors that …

Efforts to explain environmental concern as a function of social structure have revealed
some weak but reliable associations. Stronger associations have been found between …

Increasingly, scholars have come to see the news media as playing a pivotal role in shaping
whether social movements are able to bring about broader social change. By drawing …

Research on environmental activism remains poorly integrated and ill-defined and to date,
there has been little examination of the relationship of environmental activism, pro …

The authors present a brief inventory derived from Schwartz's 56-item instrument measuring
the structure and content of human values. The inventory's four 3-item scales, measuring the …

A mail survey on ecological risk perception was administered in the summer of 2002 to a
randomized sample of the lay public and to selected risk professionals at the US …