Collective action still depends on physical in-person gathering.

Evidence

I’m struck by one thing that hasn’t changed: while certainly supported by other forms of communication, the space of appearance is still so often a space of physical appearance. The history of collective action—from artistic movements to political activism—is still one of in-person meetings in houses, in squats, in churches, in bars, in cafés, in parks. In these federated spaces of appearance, disagreements and debates were not triggers that shut the whole discussion down, but rather an integral part of group deliberation, and they played out in a field of mutual responsibility and respect. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 601

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reading purpose — a first concrete redirection for attention, and the historical grounding answers whether attention-redirection is escapist: it is organizing. — connects to: A clear in-group representative position enables decisive collective action. — Stephen Reicher, S. Alexander Haslam, and Nick Hopkins, Social identity and the dynamics of…, 64