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Shawyer dissertation May 2008 final version - The University of ...

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organization. Using social network-organization theory outlined by Howard Rheingold inSmart Mobs: <strong>The</strong> Next Social Revolution (2002) and Manuel Castells’s <strong>The</strong> Rise <strong>of</strong> theNetwork Society (1996), I argue that traces <strong>of</strong> post-modern network organizing are foundin the Yippies’ organization <strong>of</strong> their own revolutionary action-theater. Finally, I addressthe implications network theory has for political activism today, and what lessons today’sactivists can learn from their unpredictable and theatrical precursors, the Yippies.46

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