Lewis, Kevin; Gray, Kurt; Meierhenrich, Jens - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
contributed no money to it-suggesting that in the case of the Save Darfur campaign, Facebook conjured an illusion of activism … protest. In this paper, we use complete records on the donation and recruitment activity of 1.2 million members of the Save … Darfur “Cause” on Facebook to provide a detailed first look at a massive online social movement. While both donation and …