Cyberorganizing
Cyberspace vs. Face to Face: Community Organizing in the New Millennium, 2000, Randy Stoecker, University of Toledo. (http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers2000/cyberorganize.htm)
In this article from The On-line Conference on Community Organizing and Development, Randy Stoecker raises questions about the role of the Internet in organising to increase the power of communities.
He looks at some of the ways to make internet-based organising more effective, the importance of building relationships for any type of organising, the strength of the Internet for action in a globalised world, and the dangers in losing the focus on local action.
Randy Stoecker, who visited New Zealand in 1999, acknowledges the power and increasing reliance on the Internet for campaigning, but warns that for any campaign to succeed it must be inclusive.
Other papers and resources on The On-line Conference on Community Organizing and Development (http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers.htm) are also well worth checking out.