The Internet and the anti-HST movement: considerations for social movements in the Internet age.

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dc.contributor.authorSevenhuysen, Tim
dc.contributor.supervisorGarlick, Stephen Robert
dc.date.accessioned2011-11-10T19:30:43Z
dc.date.available2011-11-10T19:30:43Z
dc.date.copyright2011en_US
dc.date.issued2011-11-10
dc.degree.departmentDepartment of Sociology
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this thesis project was to investigate the role played by the internet in the movement to abolish the Harmonized Sales Tax in British Columbia. A constructivist grounded theory approach was applied to data collection and analysis: specifically, five participants in the anti-HST movement were interviewed, and interview data was triangulated with observations of the movement's online activities. This study analysed the relationship between social forces and the structures of online spaces, identifying several ways that internet structure affected the shape of the movement. In addition, this study found that while the anti-HST movement bore many traits of a traditional, political-economic social movement, some elements of new social movement theory and practice were present within the movement. Finally, the study explored the homogenizing tendencies of online interaction, and how those tendencies affected individuals' interaction with the movement, and the discourses that informed and organized the movement.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/3674
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectinterneten_US
dc.subjectonlineen_US
dc.subjectsocial networkingen_US
dc.subjectsocial mediaen_US
dc.subjectFacebooken_US
dc.subjectTwitteren_US
dc.subjectblogen_US
dc.subjectsocial movementen_US
dc.subjectcampaignen_US
dc.subjectsociologyen_US
dc.subjectpoliticsen_US
dc.subjecthomogeneityen_US
dc.subjectonline spacesen_US
dc.titleThe Internet and the anti-HST movement: considerations for social movements in the Internet age.en_US
dc.title.alternativeRole of the Internet in the anti-HST movementen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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