Jennifer Earl, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society
University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Sociology
Three Expertise Keywords:
Civic-Engagement, internet, protest, social-movement
Why Digital Media and Learning?
the shape and substance of protest may be changing online.
Recent Posts:
Description of Current Work:
Jennifer Earl is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She studies information technology, social movements, and the legal system. She has been the recipient of major funding awards, including a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for research in 2006-2011. She has published widely, including in major sociological journals such as the American Sociological Review and the Annual Review of Sociology, as well as in respected specialty journals such as Sociological Theory, Mobilization, and the Social Science Computer Review. Current projects include CAREER award-funded research on internet activism and a study of arrests made at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
Selected Publications/Projects/Articles/Press:
Earl, Jennifer and Alan Schussman, 2007. “Contesting Cultural Control: Youth Culture and Online Petitioning”.
http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/dmal.9780262524827.071
(Download MacArthur Series Article)
Earl, Jennifer. 2007. “Where Have all the Protests Gone? Online.” Washington Post, Outlook Section, page 1. Sunday, February 4, 2007.
Earl, Jennifer. 2007. “Leading Tasks in a Leaderless Movement: The Case of Strategic Voting” Special Issue on Social Movement Leadership in American Behavioral Scientist 50(10): 1327-1349.
Earl, Jennifer. 2006. “Pursuing Social Change Online: The Use of Four Protest Tactics on the Internet.” Social Science Computer Review 24(3): 362-377. Schussman, Alan and Jennifer
Earl. 2004. “From Barricades to Firewalls? Strategic Voting and Social Movement Leadership in the Internet Age.” Sociological Inquiry 74(4): 439-463.
Earl, Jennifer and Alan Schussman. 2004. “Cease and Desist: Repression, Strategic Voting and the 2000 Presidential Election.” Mobilization 9(2): 188-202.
Earl, Jennifer and Alan Schussman. 2003. “The New Site of Activism: On-line Organizations, Movement Entrepreneurs, and the Changing Location of Social Movement Decision-Making.” Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 24: 155-187.
