Nina Hall’s most recent book is Climate Activism, Digital Technologies, and Organizational Change, (CUP, 2024), with Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni. This book explores the benefits and risks of digital technology for climate activists.

In a previous book, Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era, Think Global, Act Local (OUP, 2022) studies digital advocacy organizations, such as MoveOn, GetUp, and Campact. She argues they derive power from their ability to rapidly mobilize members on-line and off-line and are shaping public opinion on global issues including climate change, trade, and refugees. The book won the ISA’s Best Book Award in International Communication in 2023. It was shortlisted for BISA’s Susan Strange Best Book (2023) and received an Honorable Mention from APSA’s IT and Politics Section (2023).

As part of this research she has explored how right-wing organizations have emulated left-wing digital advocacy organizations. She has also written on: the challenges of mobilizing people for progressive causes in the populist era, how digital advocacy organizations campaigns for refugee rights and the backlash against “welcome refugee” campaigns. She edited a special issue of the Journal of Information Technology and Politics on innovation and adaptation in advocacy during the digital eras. She has spoken on various podcasts about this research – including One Planet Podcast NGO Soul + Strategy, Oxford Policy Podcast, The Great Battlefield Podcast, RNZ Nights, and the New Books Network

Books

Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Mette and Nina Hall. 2024 Climate Activism, Digital Technologies and Organizational Change, Elements Series, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Hall, Nina. 2022. Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era, Think Global, Act Local, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press (also in paperback).

Articles

Hall, Nina, Annett Heft, and Michael Vaughan. 2024. “Copycats: Do Right-Wing Groups Emulate Left-Wing Digital Advocacy Organizations?”. Journal of Information Technology and Politics.

Hall, Nina, Hans Schmitz, and Michael Dedmon. 2020. “Transnational Advocacy and NGOs in the Digital Era: What’s Changing and Why?”, International Studies Quarterly, 64 (1), pp. 169-167.

Hall, Nina. 2019. “Norm Contestation in the Digital Era, Campaigning for Refugees Rights” International Affairs, 95 (3).

Hall, Nina. 2019. “When do Refugees Matter? The Importance of Issue-Salience for Digital Advocacy Organizations”, Interest Groups & Advocacy, 8 (3), 333-355.

Other Publications

Hall, Nina. 2024. “We don’t live “Single-Issue Lives”: Why Digital Advocacy Organizations matter for Gender and LGBTIQ Advocacy”, Gender Update for European Journal of Gender and Politics.

Hall, Nina, Charlie Lawrie* and Sahar Priano*. forthcoming. “Progressive Politics? The European Climate Movement & Black Lives Matter”, Chapter for Handbook on Progressive Politics, ed. Alice Mattoni, Edward Elgar Publishing: Cheltenham. *Former SAIS Europe students

Hall, Nina. 2023. “Sticking to the State: Transnational Advocacy Networks in the Digital Era”, Chapter Six in C. Bjola and M. Kornprobst (eds), Digital International Relations, Technology, Agency and Order, London: Routledge.

Hall, Nina and Amanda Tattersall, 2024. “Why Organizers Need Mobilizers and Mobilizers Need Organizers”, Stanford Social Innovation Review, 13 March 2024.

Hall, Nina and Alexandra Budabin. 2022. “Shrinking Digital Spaces: The Hijacking of #Refugees Welcome Campaigns on Twitter”, Chapter in Donatella della Porta and Elias Steinhilper (eds.) Contentious Migrant Solidarity, Shrinking Spaces and Civil Society Contestation, Routledge.

Hall, Nina and James Dennis (eds.). 2020. “Innovation and Adaptation in Advocacy Organizations throughout the Digital Eras”, Journal of Information Technology and Politics, 17:2, 79-86,.

Hall, Nina. 2019. “Review of Paolo Gerbaudo, The Digital Party” in International Sociology, 34 (5).

Hall, Nina, et al. 2019. “The Future of Transnational NGO Advocacy”, Stanford Social Innovation Review.

Hall, Nina. 2017. “Innovations in activism in the digital era”, Chapter 8 in The Governance Report 2016 – 2017, Hertie School of Governance, May 2017.

Hall, Nina. 2017. “People power, populism and the internet”, Global Policy, 11 July 2017.

Hall, Nina and Phil Ireland, 2016. “Transforming Activism: Digital Era Advocacy Organizations”, Stanford Social Innovation Review, July 6 2016.