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The Evolution of Self-Organized Social Solidarity (SoSS) Initiatives in Greece and Their Relationship to Online Media: A Longitudinal Research
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Author(s): Eleni-Revekka Staiou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)and Dimitris Gouscos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Copyright: 2018
Pages: 26
Source title:
Innovative Perspectives on Public Administration in the Digital Age
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Aroon P. Manoharan (University of Massachusetts – Boston, USA)and James McQuiston (Kent State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5966-5.ch009
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Abstract
Since the beginning of the economic crisis in Greece, the first impacts were felt on standards of everyday living. Citizens felt the urge to self-organize and take action based on their own strengths as the only practical solution to fill in the gaps left by the state's absence of intervention. Rooted in the country's economic crisis, Greek citizens' self-organized social solidarity (SoSS) initiatives have been focused on acting and innovating rather than protesting. Examples of such initiatives are social grocery stores, alternative currencies, time banks, neighborhood groups for sanitation and general caretaking, assistance to students in primary/secondary education to name a few. The main objective of this chapter is to show the evolution of SoSS initiatives through a longitudinal research for the period 2014-2016. Α second objective is to present the relationship between these initiatives and the online media: How did they use the internet and the social media for their communication for the same period of time? Finally, the authors will attempt an assessment of their operation so far, with data obtained from updating the platform Organosi 2.0, in the summer of 2017.
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