The Impact of Information and Communications Technology on the Rise of Urban Social Movements in Poland

Maja Grabkowska; Łukasz Pancewicz; Iwona Sagan

doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-8150-7

The Impact of Information and Communications Technology on the Rise of Urban Social Movements in Poland

Abstract

The chapter examines the relationship between the use of Information and Communications Technology (ITC) and the emergence of social movements focused on urban agenda in Poland. The aim is to investigate how and to what extent a growing body of smaller activist groups use opportunities provided by the ITC to achieve their political objectives. The research results indicate that Web-based media have helped to raise the profile of local initiatives and increased awareness of systemic urban issues between different groups of grass-root actors. The findings of the chapter are based on the analysis of the Congress of Urban Movements (Kongres Ruchów Miejskich: KRM), a broad coalition of smaller non-governmental organizations and bottom-up activist groups, which use Internet-based tools to network. The results indicate that the Web-based tools increase the members' ability to connect and interact, consequently improving the ability to coordinate joint initiatives, expand real-life social networks, and in the result stimulate the rise of urban social movements

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Maja Grabkowska
- Uniwwersytet Gdański Katedra Geografii Ekonomicznej
Łukasz Pancewicz dr inż. arch.
Iwona Sagan
- Uniwersytet Gdański Katedra Geografii Ekonomicznej

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Category:: Monographic publication
Type:: rozdział, artykuł w książce - dziele zbiorowym /podręczniku w języku o zasięgu międzynarodowym
Title of issue:: Emerging Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in Urban E-Planning strony 93 - 113
Language:: English
Publication year:: 2015
Bibliographic description:: Grabkowska M., Pancewicz Ł., Sagan I.: The Impact of Information and Communications Technology on the Rise of Urban Social Movements in Poland// Emerging Issues, Challenges, and Opportunities in Urban E-Planning/ ed. Carlos Nunes Silva Hershey: PA: IGI Global, 2015, s.93-113
DOI:: Digital Object Identifier (open in new tab) 10.4018/978-1-4666-8150-7
Verified by:: Gdańsk University of Technology