Social Networks and Social Movements

Nick Crossley is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester. His most recent book is ‘Networks of Sound, Style and Subversion: the punk and post-punk worlds of Manchester, London, Liverpool and Sheffield, 1975-1980 (Manchester University Press, 2015).John Krinsky is Associate Professor and Departmental Chair, Department of Political Science, City College of New York. His publications include Free Labor: Workfare and the Contested Language of Neoliberalism (University of Chicago Press, 2007).

• 1. Social Movements and Social Networks: Introduction 2. Do Social Networks Really Matter in Contentious Politics? 3. Infectious Innovations? The Diffusion of Tactical Innovation in Social Movement Networks, the Case of Suffragette Militancy 4. Change in Covert Social Movement Networks: The ‘Inner Circle’ of the Provisional Irish Republican Army 5. Networks of Contention: The Shape of Online Transnationalism in Early Twenty-First Century Social Movement Coalitions 6. Anatomy of Protest in the Digital Era: A Network Analysis of Twitter and Occupy Wall Street 7. Who are the active and central actors in the ‘rising civil society’ in Mexico? 8. Beyond the Activist Ghetto: A Deductive Blockmodelling Approach to Understanding the Relationship between Contact with Environmental Organisations and Public Attitudes and Behaviour