[This is the 2001 draft of an article that is now published as “Mapping the Repertoire of Electronic Contention,” in Andrew Opel and Donnalyn Pompper (eds.), Representing Resistance: Media, Civil Disobedience and the Global Justice Movement. NJ: Greenwood, 2003. Purchase the book at: www.greenwood.com/catalog/GM2385.aspx ] MAPPING THE REPERTOIRE OF ELECTRONIC CONTENTION Sasha Costanza-Chock Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania Fall 2001 ABSTRACT: There is a growing body of work on social movements that enthusiastically describes the importance of the internet to transnational mobilization. This paper develops a framework for more careful analysis of online activism by drawing from theories about social movement repertoires and outcomes. Various tactics of electronic contention are described and an attempt is made to distinguish between conventional, disruptive, and violent strategies. Two case studies of disruptive electronic contention, the Virtual Sit-In for a Living Wage @ Harvard and the Netstrike for Vieques, are briefly laid out in order to illustrate the usefulness of locating electronic actions within a tactic/outcome matrix. They are also used to show how changing political opportunity structures and differing levels of repression affect the diffusion of contentious electronic tactics between social movement organizations and other actors.