Journal article
Pipelines, petitions, and protests in the Internet Age: Exploring the human geographies of online petitions challenging proposed transcontinental Alberta Oil Sands pipelines
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Since the mid-2000s, millions of spatiotemporally disparate and demographically heterogeneous North Americans have signed online petitions challenging proposed transcontinental Alberta oil sands export pipelines. This phenomenon typifies bottom-up, self-organized, and ostensibly extemporaneous cyberactivism. These dynamics contradict traditional theoretical assumptions about rational choice and social pressures in collective action, birthing queries regarding why individuals participate. Huma...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Annals of the American Association of Geographers Journal website
- Publication date:
- 2017-06-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-02-01
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2469-4460
- ISSN:
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2469-4452
- Source identifiers:
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703129
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- 2017-08-24
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- 2017
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