Moral Monday Is More Than a Hashtag: The Strong Ties of Social Movement Emergence in the Digital Era

This article explains the origin puzzle of the 2013 Moral Monday protests in North Carolina. Social media were marginal to the emergence of this civil disobedience movement, yet a common view is that digital technology’s weak ties are an integral part of large-scale collective action in the digital...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jen Schradie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-02-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305117750719