Abstract Recently researchers have made efforts to reconceptualize digital inequality into discrete levels. These levels reflect access and diffusion of technologies, proficiency in Internet usage, propensity take advantage the opportunities afforded by information communication technologies for assistance daily life. We assess utility this approach studying across rural, suburban, urban counties. Based on data from a 2005 nationally representative random sample telephone survey 2,185...

Recent research suggests that Internet usage can positively influence social capital in rural communities by fostering avenues for voluntary participation and creating networks. Most of this has examined whether use is associated with local organizations networks but not the means which residents technology to learn about activities. To address gap literature, authors a mixed-methods approach an isolated region western United States evaluate how their connections maintain community events...

The number of communities dealing with industrial pollution in the United States has increased dramatically over past three decades. Environmental campaigns have consequentially emerged and so research on successful mobilizing efforts. A gap remains, however, cases where mobilization fails to materialize. In this article, we develop a typology power’s multidimensional nature an effort address mechanisms by which elites prompt quiescence face grievous injustice. We then analyze case point,...

Pathways of transmission coronavirus (COVID-19) disease in the human population are still emerging. However, empirical observations suggest that dense settlements most adversely impacted, corroborating a broad consensus human-to-human is key mechanism for rapid spread this disease. Here, using logistic regression techniques, estimates threshold levels density were computed corresponding to incidence (case counts) population. Regions with densities greater than 3,000 person per square mile...

The purpose of this study was to examine the recreational experiences African American residents in Hillsborough County, Florida at varied levels: institutional, recreational, and personal. To investigate intricacy perceptions among Americans context outdoor recreation, first author used qualitative methods provide in-depth investigation into residents' recreation Florida. Our analysis revealed four overarching themes: 1) Racialised Outdoor Leisure Identity, 2) Representation Matters, 3)...

Abstract Research has explored the ways in which communities respond to local polluting facilities. In some cases, residents mobilize confront corporate and state polluters, whereas other cases remain quiescent wake of documented environmental threats. The variation community response is often linked demographic variables, including age, gender, education, length residence; yet cultural factors largely unexamined. We examine how such as identity memory mitigate relationship between present a...

Abstract The Tulsa race riot of 1921 was one the most destructive riots in American history. Prior to riot, Greenwood community among wealthiest African‐American neighborhoods state. Residents had successfully developed their own business infrastructure, and by early 1920s neighborhood rapidly expanding flourishing economically. attack white citizens on a black not only resulted mass casualties, but it destroyed nearly all African‐American‐owned businesses churches, as well many residential...

Although attention has been given to how broadband access is related economic development in rural areas, scant consideration it may be associated with voluntary participation. This issue important that numerous studies have shown much more vital community participation areas as compared suburban and urban places. Drawing on three diverse data sets, we examine the influence of In addition, explore whether exerts its through, conjunction with, or independent social networks. The results...

Extant research has established important linkages between threats and social movement mobilization in a variety of political economic settings. Yet, comparatively little attention been paid to the relationship environmental activism. Drawing from literatures sociology movements, we examine coal industry its resultant devastation Czechoslovakia investigate intersection provoking activism highly repressive Using range data sources, illustrate how externalities extreme production coupled with...

Extant research on official frames centers state campaigns, yet nonstate entities also utilize their own frames. We extend the existing social movement literature by examining unsuccessful framing efforts of a uranium mill in Cañon City, Colorado. Despite history environmental contamination and resultant health problems, corporation deployed an frame to reestablish company's legitimacy justify actions following controversy. Our data included newspaper coverage, archival documents, in-depth...

The concept of community identity has often been employed to explain ways in which communities respond agents that impact well-being. Using a case study the Florida cattlemen community, we examine how understand and perceive regulatory efforts recover panther on private ranch lands. data comes from participants was collected through in-depth interviews (n = 13), group 32), written comments associated with survey about conservation 78). Our findings indicate some have strong sense identity....

While research has established how elite actors can work to protect structures that contribute environmental harm, relatively less is known about the cultural resources serve interests at local level. In cases of localized pollution, multiple groups have vested in protecting corporate legitimacy. We draw on treadmill production theory and collective identity analyze a case community petrochemical contamination. Specifically, we asked: (1) appropriated productivity following legitimization...

Temporal analyses of social movement mobilization provide insight into how repression shapes tactics and in turn, movements affect state response. We use the case environmental dissent Communist Czechoslovakia to unpack this interplay. The regime quelled activism was grossly negligent matters, fomenting an underground movement. Our data included archival documents, historical accounts, in-depth interviews. Findings indicate importance political context examining tactics. highlight dissidents...

Protest activity presents a significant threat to state legitimacy in nondemocratic settings. Although authoritarian regimes rely heavily on coercion, officials must also justify their authority both the public and other elites. Previous work has shown how elites vilify challengers legitimize repression, but scholars have yet examine engage meaning prevent elite divisions from forming light of popular challenges regime legitimacy. In this study, we framing processes case resistance 1953...

Communities with a history of industrial production often face legacy pollution, or persistent contamination that remains long after has ceased. Extant research informs our understanding community mobilizing efforts around contamination, but much less is known about experience living chronic remediation. This analyzes the circumstances and processes contribute to inaction among residents pollution long-term cleanup. We use case Cushing, Oklahoma where remediation two former oil refinery...

Residents living next to polluting industries are particularly vulnerable toxic exposures and environmental illness. Cases of industrial contamination shrouded in ambiguity etiological uncertainty, making it difficult delineate how residents understand their exposure illness experiences. We analyze the case Ponca City, Oklahoma examine residents' collective memories shared narratives inform interpretations long-term petrochemical over a period 40 years. The data for this project include:...

Extant social movement research emphasizes the nexus of gender and opportunity structures in a variety contexts, yet little work has examined how mediates effects structural opportunities on activism over time. We advance existing literature by examining environmental framed around motherhood pre- post-revolutionary Czech Republic. Our analysis draws from rich qualitative data, collected ten-year span, which highlight temporal changes mother these two distinct eras. Contrary to expectation,...

Decades of scholarship have established that dissident activity provokes state repression when it threatens elite interests and legitimacy, but there has been research attention on how diffuses through institutional channels such as courts. Legal settings operate a key site for the construction implementation discursive strategies used to undercut legitimacy protesters justify repression. Social movement social control often glosses over these framing strategies, limiting our understanding...