This groundbreaking new book illustrates how the internet and other electronic resources are currently affecting social work practice. Rapidly emerging technologies have facilitated economic globalization and created a host of new issues for social workers to address. At the same time these
technologies have become key tools for social activism and advocacy. Practitioners must understand the changes in social policy advocacy and community activism that these technological advances bring and learn to formulate new skills to utilize them to their advantage.
Advocacy,
Activism, and the Internet discusses the use of the internet as a tool for instigating social change at the local, state, national, and international levels. The authors show how technology affects social work practice directly through new methods and indirectly by affecting the communities that
practitioners serve. It provides channels for e-advocacy as well as a thorough exploration of the major theoretical, practice, and research perspectives that inform electronic activism. This book solidly integrates new on-line advocacy skills with traditional methods and unites research on internet
communities with macro social work theory.
Foreword: The Internet, Society and Activism
Preface
1. Communities and Advocacy on the Internet: A Conceptual Framework
Part 1: Community Organizing and Advocacy and the Internet: An Introduction
2. Social Work Advocacy and the Internet: Research Findings and Future
Directions
3. Can You Have Community On the Net?
4. Public Policy, Technology, and the Nonprofit Sector: Notes from the Field
5. The Role of The Internet in Educating Social Work Practitioners as Online Advocates
Part 2: Organizing for Social Change
6. Organizing for Social
Change: Online and Traditional Community Practice
7. NetActivism 2001: How citizens Use the Internet
8. Environmental Activism on the Internet
9. Organizing Women of Color Online
10. Dial Up Networking for Debt Cancellation and Development: A Case Study of Jubilee 2000
11.
Online Collaboration, Information and the Resourceful Community
12. Technology-based Groups and Flash Campaigns
Part 3: Social Policy and Community in an Information Society: Implications for Advocacy and Organizing
13. Social Policy Advocacy in Cyberspace
14. Social Policy and
Social Change in the Post-industrial Society
15. Tele-democracy: Re-inventing Governance for Social Welfare
16. Inequality and the Digital Divide: Myths and Realities
17. The Global Information Divide and Online Organizing for International Development
18. Cyberadvocacy as Social
Work Practice: The Continuing Challenge to Reinvent the Profession
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Steven Hick is an associate professor in the School of Social Work at Carleton University. His published books include Land Our Life: a Study of the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in the Philippines (1987), Human rights and the Internet (2000), and Social Work in Canada: An Introduction
(2002).
John McNutt is a professor of Urban Affairs at the University of Delaware. His research is in the area of advocacy and activism on the Internet, and he has previously edited The Global Environmental Crisis: Implications for Social Welfare and Social Work (1994). He has also
written Generalist Practice in Larger Settings: Knowledge and Skill Concepts and Social Policy Analysis and Practice, both published by Lyceum Books.
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