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Rachel Gibson

Rachel Gibson is Professor of Political Science at the Institute for Social Change (ISC), University of Manchester. She has previously worked as a Professor of New Media Studies at the University of Leicester, Senior Research Fellow in the ACSPRI Centre for Social Research (ACSR) at the Australian National University and Lecturer in politics at the University of Salford.
She completed her PhD thesis on the rise of anti-immigrant parties in Western Europe in the late 20th century at Texas A&M University in the US. Rachel is a member of the editorial board of a range of political science and new media journals including the Journal of Elections, Public Opinon and Parties, the Journal of Information Technology and Politics, Information Polity and the Australian Journal of Political Science and serve as a reviewer for funding bodies including the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Leverhulme Trust and the British Academy.

http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/

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    Cyber activism or digital friends?

    New digital technologies are opening up different ways for supporters to join and affiliate with parties and other political organizations. This is occurring in two main ways:

    1) through ‘purpose built’ hub sites developed by organisations through which they can recruit volunteers and support and individuals sign up with an email address

    2) through the use of third party software provided through platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and Flickr in which the organisations and their supporters can create a new ‘space’ for sympathisers and interested individuals to find out more information and undertake certain actions on their behalf.

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    Posted on July 17th, 2012 by Rachel Gibson filed under: Union news, Unions online