Doctoral Dissertation Research: Global Social Movements and Community-Building in the Digital Age

人们如何在社会经济、种族和国家多样性的背景下围绕共同事业建立社区，对于理解许多全球动态非常重要。这篇博士论文研究了人们如何围绕共同的事业走到一起，建立全球团结和社区的决策，动机和变化。 它调查了新的社交媒体，移动的技术和虚拟联系人对全球社区建设的影响。这项研究促进了对国际团结与新数字技术之间关系的广泛了解。论文研究项目训练研究生科学数据收集和分析的方法。调查结果将在各种公共场所传播，以帮助公众了解如何实现全球团结。为了分析人们为什么以及如何围绕共同的原因组织起来，研究人员对那些参加全球社会运动的人，他们的家人和朋友以及国际组织进行了系统的人种学和传记社会科学研究。 研究人员询问普通人如何建立政治社区，共同的事业如何发展成为更大的运动，以及是什么推动了不同群体的策略变化。本研究的成果为政治人类学、数字人类学和全球社会运动人类学的学术研究做出了贡献。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

How people build community around common causes in contexts of socio-economic, ethnic, and national diversity is important to understanding many global dynamics. This doctoral dissertation research examines the decision-making, motivations, and variations in how people come together around common causes to build global solidarity and community. It investigates the impacts of new social media, mobile technologies, and virtual contacts on the building of global communities. The research advances broad knowledge about the relationships between international solidarity and new digital technologies. The dissertation research project trains a graduate student in methods of scientific data collection and analysis. Findings will be disseminated in various public venues to help the public understand how global solidarity is realized. To analyze why and how people organize around common causes, the investigators conduct systematic ethnographic and biographical social science research amongst those who join global social movements, their family and friends, and international organizations. The researchers ask how ordinary people build political communities, how common causes can develop into larger movements, and what drives the variations in the strategies of different groups. Findings from this study contribute to the scholarship in political anthropology, digital anthropology, and the anthropology of global social movements.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.