TY - JOUR
T1 - Organizing technologies
T2 - Genre forms of online civic association in Eastern Europe
AU - Vedres, Balázs
AU - Bruszt, László
AU - Stark, David
PY - 2005/1
Y1 - 2005/1
N2 - How do civic associations in Eastern Europe organize themselves online? Based on data collected on 1,585 East European civil society Web sites, the authors identify five emergent genres of organizing technologies: newsletters, interactive platforms, multilingual solicitations, directories, and brochures. These clusters do not correspond to stages of development. Moreover, newer Web sites are more likely to be typical of their genre, suggesting that forms are becoming more distinctive. In contrast to the utopian image of a de-territorialized, participatory global civil society, the authors' examination of the structure of hyperlinks finds that transnational types of Web sites are not inclined to be participatory. Whereas other paradigms focus on inequality of users' online access, the authors probe inequality in the accessibility of Web sites to potential users through search engine technology and show how this varies across different types of civil society Web sites.
AB - How do civic associations in Eastern Europe organize themselves online? Based on data collected on 1,585 East European civil society Web sites, the authors identify five emergent genres of organizing technologies: newsletters, interactive platforms, multilingual solicitations, directories, and brochures. These clusters do not correspond to stages of development. Moreover, newer Web sites are more likely to be typical of their genre, suggesting that forms are becoming more distinctive. In contrast to the utopian image of a de-territorialized, participatory global civil society, the authors' examination of the structure of hyperlinks finds that transnational types of Web sites are not inclined to be participatory. Whereas other paradigms focus on inequality of users' online access, the authors probe inequality in the accessibility of Web sites to potential users through search engine technology and show how this varies across different types of civil society Web sites.
KW - Civil society
KW - Eastern Europe
KW - Internet
KW - Participation
KW - Technology
KW - Web site analysis
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=11144305084&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0002716204270504
DO - 10.1177/0002716204270504
M3 - Review Article
AN - SCOPUS:11144305084
SN - 0002-7162
VL - 597
SP - 171
EP - 188
JO - Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
JF - Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
ER -