@article{Svensson_2011, title={New Media, New Logics: power and participation among activists in southern Stockholm}, volume={1}, url={https://spir.aoir.org/ojs/index.php/spir/article/view/8748}, abstractNote={This paper discusses the implications of the increasing use of social networking sites for political participation emerging outside parliamentary arenas. The paper is empirically based in a (n)ethnographic study of a network of middle-class activists in Aspudden and Midsommarkransen (southern Stockholm). They were engaged in issues such as saving the local bathhouse, lobbying for a cultural centre, preserve green areas and the quality of life in the attractive and well-located sister suburbs. The studies in southern Stockholm suggest that an increase of social networking sites develops a new kind of network logic underlining identity negotiation as a motivator for political participation. This logic contributes to rationalized practices for expressions of affinity, which in turn disciplines the individual users to connectedness with like-minded people in the neighbourhood through continuous practices of updating.}, journal={AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research}, author={Svensson, Jakob}, year={2011}, month={Oct.} }