Advocacy, activism, and the Internet : community organization and social policy / edited by Steven F. Hick and John G. McNutt.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword, Internet, society, and activism / Noam Chomsky -- Communities and advocacy on the Internet : a conceptual framework / Steven Hick and John McNutt -- Social work advocacy and the Internet : the knowledge base / Katherine Boland, Jennifer Bartron, and John McNutt -- Can you have community on the Net? / Steven Hick and Emily Reich -- Public policy, technology, and the nonprofit sector : notes from the field / Ryan Turner -- Role of the Internet in educating social work practitioners as online advocates / Stephen P. Wernet -- Organizing for social change : online and traditional community practice / John McNutt and Steven Hick -- NetActivism 2001 : how citizens use the Internet / Edward Schwartz -- Environmental activism on the Internet / David Barnhizer -- Organizing women of color online / Irene Queiro-Tajalli and Craig Campbell -- Dial-up networking for debt cancellation and development : a case study of Jubilee 2000 / Nick Buxton -- Online collaboration, information, and the resourceful community / Joe Clarke -- Technology-based groups and flash campaigns / Goutham Menon -- Social policy and advocacy in cyberspace / Steven Hick and John McNutt -- Social policy and social change in the postindustrial society / George Haskett.

Teledemocracy : reinventing governance for social welfare / On-Kwok Lai -- Inequality and the digital divide : myths and realities / Jay Steyaert -- Global information divide and online organizing for international development / Jamal Shahin -- Cyberadvocacy as social work practice : the continuing challenge to reinvent the profession / John McNutt and Steven Hick.