in a way these authors became like the friendly colleagues that I lacked after our move away from Göttingen (University), my intellectual home. Finally, I thank running for helping me keep my sanity in these crazy years, as well as the two people closest to my heart, my husband, Franz and my son, Fritz Konrad. I love you. Schwerin, October 2019 While 133 users voted for moving the airport, 132 voted against it (cf. Sigurðsson). 3 Charles Tilly coined the term repertoire to describe the

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... ensemble of performances" with different targeted outcomes from which social movements pick and mix (3). It also appears to be a suitable term to describe the possibilities for the actions of individuals, which is the focus in this book. Repertoires evolve historically, both over the period that a social movement exists and within the biography of an individual, and they contain a variety of different modes of participation (cf. Schönberger and Sutter, 'Protesthandeln' 24). 12 With his blog entry "A Typology of Electronic Democracy", German political scientist Martin Hagen for an excellent round-up of the dynamics of the discourse on electronic democracy, including explanations of the various concepts behind it (n.pag.). 2 State of Research | 31 25 "Smombie" is a portmanteau from the words "smartphone" and "zombie" and became Germany's annual youth word in 2015. It describes a slowly walking pedestrian paying exclusive attention to the screen in hand and not to his surroundings (cf. 'Jugendwort').