How working better as a network could make the environmental movement more successful.
Author:
Gideon Rosenblatt
Description:
Creating a theory called "Movement as Network," Rosenblatt offers insights and advice into network-building for social change through an investigation of the environmental movement.
Research aimed at understanding the use of networks and connections within philanthropy.
Description:
Research on strategic networks within the funder community provides a series of reports and maps exploring the use, structure and value of these networks, as well as a database of funder networks, collectives and affinity groups.
Research paper on role of nonprofits in social movements
Author:
Debra Minkoff (debra.minkoff@yale.edu)
Description:
A paper that builds upon the existing understanding of activism within our political environment to provide a framework for national and crossnational research on the organizational infrastructure of national social movements
Reflections from an historic 2002 gathering of twenty-two media advocates, activists and organizers discussing goals, constituencies and strategic directions for their work.
Author:
Nan Rubin, et al
Description:
Constituency, connections, political context and strategic visions for transforming media access, infrastructure and policy: A report from a 3-day gathering of media advocates, organizers and activists from around the US at the Highlander Education and Research Center in New Market, Tennessee, August 2002.
Why a media democracy must be a progressive priority, and the opportunities and challenges for a media democracy movement. (Robert Hackett, 2002)
Author:
Robert Hackett
Description:
Interviews with activists and media organizations, as well as published scholarship are used to outline the importance of democratization of the media and suggest further research and strategy.
Why the politics of civil society are best understood not through "social networks" and "information-sharing" but as "issue-networks."
Author:
Noortje Marres
Description:
A memo pointing out the usefulness of the issue-network, a source for political action by NGOs that is not within the traditional understanding of networks.
