From the blogosphere into the parliament: The role of digital technologies in organizing social movements

Highlights

• We studied collective action (CA) in a social movement (SM) for 5 years
• We explored the evolution of SM organizational structures across three stages of their lifecycle
• We present a process model explaining the organization and praxes for the three phases
• We describe how social media and other digital technologies play different roles during the stages
• We describe how SM organize with different arenas for collective and connective action