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Jennifer Earl is a Professor of Sociology and (by courtesy) Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona. She taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) before joining Arizona. She is Director Emerita of the Center for Information Technology and Society and Director Emerita of the Technology and Society PhD Emphasis, both at UCSB.

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Courses
  • SMCA
    Social Movements and Collective Action

  • SIA
    Social Issues in America

  • SRJL
    Sociology of Rights, Justice, and Law

  • SMA
    Social Movements and Activism

Grants
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    Youth Activism Project

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2016

    $17.9K
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    Police Professionalism and Changes in Police Protocols

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2014

    $279.8K
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    Research Network on Youth and Participatory Politics

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2013

    $426.3K
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    CR: Combining, Augmenting and Analyzing Social Movement Data at Different Levels with Quantitative and Qualitative Methods, 1960-1995

    Principal Investigator (PI)

    2012

    $159.4K
News
  • UA Discussion Series to Explore Our Right to Privacy

    2016

  • How New Social Movements Take Root

    2014

Publications (114)
Recent
  • Principals’ Responses to Student Gun Violence Protests: Deter, Manage, or Educate for Democracy?

    2023

  • The digital repression of social movements, protest, and activism: A synthetic review

    2022

  • Credible Threat: Attacks against Women Online and the Future of Democracy. By Sarah Sobieraj. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. xii+ 174. $99.00 (cloth); $27.95

    2022

  • Layers of Political Repression: Integrating Research on Social Movement Repression

    2022

  • Spillover as Movement Agenda Setting: Using Computational and Network Techniques for Improved Rare Event Identification

    2021

  • Talking with or Talking at Young Activists? Mediated Youth Engagement in Web-Accessible Spaces

    2021

  • Digital youth politics

    2021

  • The Challenges and Opportunities of Ego-Network Analysis of Social Movements and Collective Action

    2021

  • Protest, activism, and false information

    2021

  • Spillover through Shared Agendas: Understanding How Social Movements Set Agendas for One Another

    2021

  • Softer Policing or the Institutionalization of Protest? Decomposing Changes in Observed Protest Policing Over Time

    2021

  • Living Down to Expectations: Age Inequality and Youth Activism

    2021

  • On Movements: The Opportunities and Challenges of Studying Social Movement Ego-Networks: Online and Offline

    2021

  • The Puzzle of Protest Policing over Time: Historicizing Repression Research Using Temporal Moving Regressions

    2021

  • “ONE SIZE DOESN'T FIT ALL”: CONNECTING VIEWS OF ACTIVISM WITH YOUTH ACTIVIST IDENTIFICATION

    2020

  • One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Connecting Views of Activism with Youth Activist Identification

    2020

  • The process is the punishment revisited: Forty-year anniversary review

    2019

  • Audience, Persuasion, and Influence

    2019

  • Kids these days: Supply and demand for youth online political engagement

    2019

  • Symposium on political communication and social movements: audience, persuasion, and influence

    2019

  • Barrier or Booster? Digital Media, Social Networks, and Youth Micromobilization

    2019

  • Contentious Politics in the Trump Era

    2018

  • Online Protest Participation and the Digital Divide: Modeling the Effect of the Digital Divide on Online Petition Signing

    2018

  • I Say It is the Moon: Taming the American Political Will?

    2018

  • Citams@ 30: Learning From the Past, Plotting a Course for the Future'

    2018

  • Backfire Online

    2018

  • CITAMS at Thirty: Learning from the Past, Plotting a Course for the Future

    2018

  • Online protest participation and the digital divide: Modeling the effect of the digital divide on online petition-signing

    2018

  • Clashes of Conscience: Explaining Counterdemonstration at Protests

    2018

  • Technology and social media

    2018

  • Youth Protest’s New Tools and Old Concerns

    2018

  • The Promise and Pitfalls of Big Data and Computational Studies of Politics

    2018

  • Recruiting Inclusiveness: Intersectionality, Social Movements, and Youth Online', Non-State Violent Actors and Social Movement Organizations (Research in Social Movements …

    2017

  • Democracy, the State and Protest: International Perspectives on Methods for the Study of Protest

    2017

  • Routing around organizations: Self-directed political consumption

    2017

  • Youth, activism, and social movements

    2017

  • The New Information Frontier: Incorporating Political Communication Research into Social Movement Studies

    2017

  • Recruiting inclusiveness: Intersectionality, social movements, and youth online

    2017

  • Pathways to Contemporary Youth Protest: The Continuing Relevance of Family, Friends, and School for Youth Micromobilization

    2017

  • The new information frontier: toward a more nuanced view of social movement communication

    2017

  • The Past, Present, and Future of Media and Social Movements Studies: Introduction to the Special Issue on Media and Social Movements'

    2017

  • Protest online: theorizing the consequences of online engagement

    2016

  • How Social Movements Die: Repression and Demobilization of the Republic of New Africa.

    2016

  • Social Movements, Repression of

    2015

  • The Logic of Connective Action: Digital Media and the Personalization of Contentious Politics

    2015

  • New Technologies and Social Movements

    2015

  • Current Research on Information Technologies and Society: Papers from the 2013 Meetings of the American Sociological Association

    2015

  • CITASA: Intellectual Past and Future.

    2015

  • The Future of Social Movement Organizations: The Waning Dominance of SMOs Online

    2015

  • Something Old and Something New: A Comment on “New Media, New Civics”

    2014

  • Culturally Constrained Contention: Mapping the Meaning Structure of the Repertoire of Contention

    2014

  • The Dynamics of Backlash Online: Anonymous and the Battle for WikiLeaks

    2014

  • Digital Media and Political Engagement Worldwide: A Comparative Study

    2014

  • 16. Social movements and the ICT revolution

    2014

  • Democracy's Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring by Philip N. Howard, and Muzammil M. Hussain. New York, Oxford University Press, 2013. 160 pp. Paper, $24.95.

    2014

  • Hitting middle age never felt so good: introduction to the American Sociological Association Communication and Information Technologies section 2013 special issue

    2014

  • Spreading the word or shaping the conversation:“Prosumption” in protest websites

    2013

  • Studying Online Activism: The Effects of Sampling Design on Findings

    2013

  • Repression and Social Movements

    2013

  • Social Control

    2013

  • Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age by Manuel Castells

    2013

  • This Protest Will Be Tweeted: Twitter and Protest Policing during the Pittsburgh G20

    2013

  • Social Movements and Media

    2013

  • Spreading the Word or Shaping the Conversation: Prosumption in Protest Websites

    2013

  • Media, Movements, and Political Change

    2012

  • Introduction: Media, Movements, and Political Change

    2012

  • PRIVATE PROTEST? Public and private engagement online

    2012

  • Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns.

    2012

  • Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change

    2012

  • Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age

    2011

  • Crimes of Dissent: Civil Disobedience, Criminal Justice, and the Politics of Conscience. By Jarret S. Lovell

    2011

  • Protest arrests and future protest participation: The 2004 republican national convention arrestees and the effects of repression

    2011

  • Media Bias, Perspective, and State Repression: The Black Panther Party by Christian Davenport

    2011

  • Political Repression: Iron Fists, Velvet Gloves, and Diffuse Control

    2011

  • The diffusion of different types of internet activism: Suggestive patterns in website adoption of innovations

    2010

  • The impacts of repression: The effect of police presence and action on subsequent protest rates

    2010

  • A Lawyer's Guide to the Repression Literature

    2010

  • Changing the World One Webpage at a Time: Conceptualizing and Explaining Internet Activism

    2010

  • When Bad Things Happen: Toward a Sociology of Troubles

    2009

  • Information Access and Protest Policing Post-9/11 Studying the Policing of the 2004 Republican National Convention

    2009

  • Movement Societies and Digital Protest: Fan Activism and Other Nonpolitical Protest Online*

    2009

  • The Process is the Punishment: Thirty Years Later

    2008

  • Contesting cultural control: Youth culture and online petitioning

    2008

  • An admirable call to improve, but not fundamentally change, our collective methodological practices

    2008

  • The targets of online protest: State and private targets of four online protest tactics

    2008

  • Leading Tasks in a Leaderless Movement The Case of Strategic Voting

    2007

  • Civic Life Online: Learning how Digital Media Can Engage Youth

    2007

  • Where have all the protests gone? Online

    2007

  • Christian Davenport Repression and the Domestic Democratic Peace American Social Movement

    2007

  • Arrests, repression, and the 2004 Republican National Convention

    2006

  • Special Focus Issue on Repression and the Social Control of Protest

    2006

  • Pursuing Social Change Online The Use of Four Protest Tactics on the Internet

    2006

  • Seeing blue: A police-centered explanation of protest policing

    2006

  • Introduction: Repression and the social control of protest

    2006

  • A movement society evaluated: Collective protest in the United States, 1960-1986

    2005

  • You can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride

    2005

  • Aaron Doyle Arresting Images: Crime and Policing in Front of the Television Camera

    2005

  • The use of newspaper data in the study of collective action

    2004

  • Cease and desist: Repression, strategic voting and the 2000 US presidential election

    2004

  • Controlling protest: New directions for research on the social control of protest

    2004

  • The cultural consequences of social movements

    2004

  • From barricades to firewalls? Strategic voting and social movement leadership in the Internet age

    2004

  • The new site of activism: on-line organizations, movement entrepreneurs, and the changing location of social movement decision-making

    2003

  • Tanks, tear gas, and taxes: Toward a theory of movement repression

    2003

  • Protests under fire? Explaining protest policing

    2003

  • Gender and Social Movements

    2002

  • The differential protection of minority groups: The inclusion of sexual orientation, gender, and disability in state hate crime laws, 1976-1995

    2001

  • The enactment of state-level hate crime law in the United States: Intrastate and interstate factors

    2001

  • Methods, movements, and outcomes

    2000

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