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Is a New Worldwide Web Possible? An Explorative Comparison of the Use of ICTs by Two South African Social Movements

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2013

Herman Wasserman
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Abstract:

In this article the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), especially new media technologies such as e-mail and the Internet, by postapartheid South African social movements is explored. Following a discussion of the use of these technologies by activist groupings in international contexts, a typology suggested by Rheingold (2003) is used as a framework for comparing two South African social movements: the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) and the Anti-Privatization Forum (APF).

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African Studies Review , Volume 50 , Issue 1 , April 2007 , pp. 109 - 131
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Copyright © African Studies Association 2007

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