"The advocacy network doesn't have a place to go," she said.

Social movements can work with and rely on the support of advocacy networks, though the reverse is less common.

Different kinds of advocacy networks interact with technology differently.

Since then, an extensive advocacy network has grown both to help patients and to lobby public officials to protect the information about patients with the virus.

Transnational advocacy networks are more likely to emerge around issues where external influence is necessary to ease the communication between internal groups and their own government.

Two examples of advocacy networks from different ends of the American political spectrum serve as good illustrations of this point.

He is president of a youth advisory council for Supportive Children's Advocacy Network, a social services agency.

Collaborations between digitally enabled movements and traditional advocacy networks effectively enhance the ability for both organizations to pursue collective action.

Transnational advocacy networks bring together loose coalitions of these organizations under common umbrella organizations that cross national borders.

The delineation between social movements and advocacy networks is a particularly thorny issue for understanding and defining networked advocacy.