Local technology culture shaped Seattle’s activist organizational choices

Evidence

Seattle was a major center for dot-com activity and is the home of multinational technology corporations Microsoft, Nintendo, and Amazon.com, as well as a top-ten computer science school, the University of Washington. Just as in San Francisco, this technology culture influenced the choices of activist groups. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 104

Categorization

• XREF: Directly echoes the book’s earlier argument about how San Francisco’s tech milieu shaped the self-branding scene — same geographic-determinism mechanism running through the book. — connects to: Local technology-industry culture shaped the methods of neighboring activist movements; Activist technology and institutional structure are mutually constitutive, not separable — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 104; Burning Man models the ideals and labor structures of tech culture — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 139

Broader Connections

• Local technology-industry culture shaped the methods of neighboring activist movements #corroborates (0.95)
• Burning Man models the ideals and labor structures of tech culture #exemplifies (0.80) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 139
• Activist technology and institutional structure are mutually constitutive, not separable #expands (0.75) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 104