Journal articles: 'Social Media Movements'

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Febrianto, Martinus, Dam. "SOCIAL MOVEMENT BASED ON SOCIAL MEDIA IN SOCIAL MORAL PERSPECTIVE." Jurnal Teologi 11, no. 1 (May 25, 2022): 33–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.24071/jt.v11i01.4397.

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Social media as the prominent phenomenon of digital culture has become the infrastructure for social and political movements. Digital media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have become practical tools for social movements, especially for communicating, organizing, and gaining wider publicity. However, a more careful study shows that activism on social media can only become an impactful socio-political movement if it meets the requirements of contemporary culture. Social media apparently does not support the absorption and deepening of complex discourses or difficult issues. In addition, direct (offline) activities, namely traditional forms of organization, are absolutely necessary for resilient and impactful social movements. These findings are in line with the study of social movements in the Catholic Church. Only through direct action in the offline realm can social movements foster spirituality, empower people, manifest a sense of solidarity, and become deep collective movements that inspire continuous effort for the sake of the common good.

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Artz, Lee. "Social Media and Social Movements." Protest 1, no. 2 (February 23, 2022): 248–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2667372x-01030003.

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Abstract This contribution assesses the function and use of corporate-run social media, including its efficacy for organizing social movements. An extended critique of Black Lives Matter considers the impact of its social media activities on mitigating racial inequality. Drawing from successful social movements, participatory democracy, mass physical protest, and independence from established political institutions appear as necessary ingredients for constructing social media strategies for social change.

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Kidd, Dustin, and Keith McIntosh. "Social Media and Social Movements." Sociology Compass 10, no. 9 (September 2016): 785–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12399.

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Karolak, Magdalena. "Social Media and Urban Social Movements." Contemporary Arab Affairs 12, no. 2 (June 2019): 25–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/caa.2019.122002.

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The goal of this research is to explore the opportunities brought about by the use of new media in urban protests. Specifically, it investigates the use of the Internet in modern protest movements that failed to bring about the changes they sought, using Bahrain as a case study. The focus is put on urban movements that continue revolutionary activism off- and online in the sixth year after the failure of the Bahraini uprising. This research assesses the need to maintain an online presence for these cities and explains the goals of their online presence. The paper also aims to understand what type of variations exist within these urban movements; and analyzes the interplay between such online manifestations and online censorship. This research is based on the critical discourse analysis of web content and graphic representations produced by Bahraini activists on particular online sites pertaining to each city in question.

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Loader, Brian D. "Social Movements and New Media." Sociology Compass 2, no. 6 (October 13, 2008): 1920–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2008.00145.x.

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Khazraee, Emad, and Kristene Unsworth. "Social media: The new opiate of the masses?" International Review of Information Ethics 18 (December 1, 2012): 49–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/irie303.

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This study argues that the relationship between new information and communication technologies (ICT) and social movements should be done from a socio-technical perspective. In the present study, we broaden this perspective and use Actor-Network Theory (ANT) to better understand the relationship between social media (as a new ICT) and social movements. From the perspective of ANT, one cannot define unidirectional causal relationships between the social and the technical. New technical developments create opportunities to change the social order and in the meantime technologies are transformed and are adapted differently by humans. Preliminary findings examining the use of Facebook among Iranians, applying the aforementioned relational sociology perspective based on ANT, suggest that the role new ICTs play in social movements and social change is not linear and constant through time. The impact of new ICTs might be different considering different stages in a social movement timeline. In fact, there may be a stage where ICTs actually function as a sort of pressurerelease value, allowing individuals to remain content within the status quo rather than choosing to pursue more radical goals. We propose the utilization of the two concepts of “durability” and “mobility”, from ANT literature, to better understand the potential of online social networking technologies for social change. We suggest three different time stages as short (emergence of movements), mid (development or decline of movements), and late stage (the movement’s continuation, survival or disappearance through time) to be considered in the study of relationship between social media and social change.

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Sartoretto, Paola, and Leonardo Custdio. "The production of knowledge in Brazilian social movement families." Journal of Alternative & Community Media 4, no. 2 (July 1, 2019): 60–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/joacm_00049_1.

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Analyses of the interplay between media technologies and social movements have been predominantly media-centric, focusing on practices and orientations towards media. Studies looking into communication and media practices within social movements usually have the single social movement as a unit of analysis, overlooking relations and interactions among social movements. We shift the focus to practices and orientations towards media, and to communicative processes among social movement families. The study pays particular attention to communication related to the production and circulation of knowledge. Through the study of the interrelations among three social movements in Brazil, we propose a typology of knowledge constructed and circulated within and among social movements as related to 1) militancy and insurgency, 2) mobilisation dynamics, and 3) framing awareness.

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Cammaerts, Bart. "THE NEW-NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: ARE SOCIAL MEDIA CHANGING THE ONTOLOGY OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS?" Mobilization: An International Quarterly 26, no. 3 (September 1, 2021): 343–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.17813/1086-671x-26-3-343.

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Our hypermediated societies affect the very nature of what a social movement is. This article identifies five core nodal points of what constitutes a social movement: Program claims, Identity construction, Connections, Actions, and Resolve (PICAR). Primarily using France’s yellow vest movement case, I assess the impact of social media on these nodal points. I find that social media afford opportunities as well as present challenges for contemporary movements which taken together amounts to a newly emerging ontology. This new-new social movement ontology is characterized by processes of discontinuity (open ideological positioning, fluid collective identities, weak ties, an online repertoire of action, and relative ephemerality) co-existing with continuity (the return of a class politics of redistribution, the continued importance of collective identity, offline repertoires, and cycles of protest). This analysis demonstrates the dynamic interplay between political and mediation opportunity structures, producing new emancipatory potentials and challenging constraints.

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Takovski, Aleksandar. "Coloring social change: Humor, politics, and social movements." HUMOR 33, no. 4 (September 11, 2019): 485–511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/humor-2019-0037.

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AbstractAs many social movements demonstrate, humor can serve as an important resource to resist oppression, fight social injustice and bring social change. Existing research has focused on humor’s role within social movements and its positive effects on the free expression of criticism, reduction of fear, communication, mobilization of participants and so on. However, the current literature on the activist use of humor also expresses some reservations about its political efficacy. While humor may steam off the energy necessary to counteract oppression and injustice, other tools of achieving the same political ends have been successfully deployed, primarily social media. Building upon this research, the present case study explores the 2016 Macedonian social movement called the Colorful Revolution. In particular, through the analysis of social media and activists’ reflection on the political use of humor, this case study examines how on-line humor contributed to the emergence and development of the movement. Factoring in activists’ opinions on the role of humor in society and especially in movements, while also paying attention to the role of social media, this case study tends to re-interpret the role of humor in the totality of the actions and circumstances underpinning the development of a social movement.

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Murthy, Dhiraj. "Introduction to Social Media, Activism, and Organizations." Social Media + Society 4, no. 1 (January 2018): 205630511775071. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305117750716.

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Social media have become increasingly pervasive. However, the literature on social movements and social media has not fully grasped just how much social media have fundamentally changed the landscape of organizational communication, ranging from stakeholders being able to directly mobilize resources to making grassroots transnational social movements more organizationally feasible. A major gap in the literature is this lack of understanding how social media have shaped social movement organizations (SMOs) and the organization of social movements. This Special Issue brings together a unique collection of articles that map and comment on the field of social media and social movements. The volume contributes to literature in this area by exploring how social media are not only shaping social movements, advocacy, and activism from the point of view of organizational communication but also changing the ways in which activists and SMOs interact with each other. The volume leverages a diverse array of interdisciplinary methods and covers a broad terrain ranging from analyses of knowledge transfer between grassroot activists via social media to large SMOs. The Issue is broadly divided into two parts. Part 1 is focused around trends and interventions in social media, activism, and organizations research. Part 2 revolves around a global collection of case studies. The two are hardly mutually exclusive and the boundaries are roughly drawn. This collection provides a critical starting point for better understanding social media and social movements, an area that is fundamentally important to a variety of disciplines but severely underresearched.

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Riddick, Sarah. "Points of Contact Between Activism, Populism, and Fandom on Social Media." Media and Communication 10, no. 4 (November 29, 2022): 191–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v10i4.5738.

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This article explores how music fans used social media to increase a social movement’s public support. Although initially dismissed as a conspiracy theory, the movement eventually gained widespread support and is motivating communities to engage in broader cultural conversations. The movement’s success, this article argues, is largely owed to social media’s networked communication affordances and how they facilitate fan-based citizenship and citizen journalism. Through a rhetorical analysis of social media communication related to the movement, this article examines how online fan-based citizen journalism can draw together seemingly disconnected ideologies and audiences to diversify and bolster social movements’ support.

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Huerta, Rubén. "The Media Commons and Social Movements." Chasqui. Revista Latinoamericana de Comunicación 1, no. 141 (November 30, 2019): 417–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.16921/chasqui.v0i141.4139.

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McCurdy, Patrick. "Social Movements, Protest and Mainstream Media." Sociology Compass 6, no. 3 (March 2012): 244–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-9020.2011.00448.x.

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Kamaruzzaman, Kartini. "Considering the Symbiotic Relationship Between Religion, Digital Media, and Social Movement Leadership – A Systematic Review Using PRISMA." Jurnal Komunikasi: Malaysian Journal of Communication 38, no. 3 (September 30, 2022): 209–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.17576/jkmjc-2022-3803-13.

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The study of leadership has been long explicitly debated, specifically in social movements. While the discussion of social movement leadership has increasingly made its presence in digital media studies, it falls short of understanding religious socio-political action and in the nexus of religion. Moreover, the role of religion has continually been confined in the contexts of conflict, terrorism, and extremism. Based on the said argument, this article develops a systematic review of religion, digital media, and social movement leadership. The present paper follows the PRISMA systematic review protocol as a guideline for data collection and reporting. Data of articles were obtained from the Scopus database between 2010 and 2021. Findings indicate that religion is used both as an explanatory component to either rationalise conflict or to empower social movements. Religion plays a significant role in social movements that are mediated through digital media. Relevant studies have increasingly examined religion concerning online practices and in the context of social movements. The paper highlights that religiously embedded social movements can be examined using social movement and digital media perspectives. Nonetheless, it must extend the religious analytical lens to thoroughly comprehend the religious components, particularly when it involves religious social movement actors. Keywords: Religion, digital media, social movement leadership, socio-political, PRISMA.

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Syed, Romilla, and Leiser Silva. "Social Movement Sustainability on Social Media: An Analysis of the Women’s March Movement on Twitter." Journal of the Association for Information Systems 24, no. 1 (2023): 249–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.17705/1jais.00776.

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Social media has emerged as a powerful medium to organize and mobilize social movements. In particular, the connective action of social media builds associations and allows for the continuity of social movements. Yet there is a lack of research on how connective action emergent from social media messages sustains long-term social movements. Accordingly, in this study, we concentrate on Twitter messages related to Women’s March protests held in 2017, 2018, and 2019. Using an interpretive analysis followed by the topic modeling approach, we analyzed the tweets to identify the different types of messages associated with the movement. These messages were classified using a set of categories and subcategories. Furthermore, we conducted a temporal analysis of the message (sub)categories to understand how distinct messages allow movement continuity beyond a specific protest march. Results suggest that while most of the messages are used to motivate and mobilize individuals, the connective action tactics employed through messages sent before, during, and after the marches allowed Women’s March to become a broader and more persistent movement. We advance theoretical propositions to explain the sustainability of a long-term social movement on social media, exemplified through large-scale connective action that persists over time. In doing so, this study contributes to connective action research by providing message categorization that synthesizes the meaning of message content. The findings could help social movement organizers learn different ways to frame messages that resonate with broader social media users. Moreover, our approach to analyzing a large set of tweets might interest other qualitative researchers.

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Oh, Onook, H. R. Rao, Mary Still, and Emmanuelle Vaast. ""Social Media, Social Networks, and Social Movements: Emerging Research Challenges"." Academy of Management Proceedings 2015, no. 1 (January 2015): 19069. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2015.19069symposium.

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Panwar, Kanika, and Vikas Kumar Sihag. "Protest Movements, Social Media, and the Role of Law Enforcement." International Journal of Information Systems and Social Change 14, no. 1 (January 1, 2023): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijissc.314590.

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From the Iranian green movement (2009) through the London riots (2011) and the recent anti-hijab protests in Iran, protest movements have been accompanied by considerable social media activity globally. Social media users have been involved in the quick production and distribution of audio-visuals online with protest hashtags, rumors, and sometimes fabricated information. The impact of these movements demonstrates that social media can potentially play an important role in organizing large-scale socio-political events, posing a challenge for law enforcement agencies. This research aims to evaluate and analyze the use of social media for mass mobilization throughout significant protest movements from 2010 to 2022, as well as to investigate the use of social media as a tool by LEAs. This exploratory research examines the theoretical and empirical research on the use of social media for mass mobilization, social protests, and the involvement of law enforcement authorities. The discussion has shown that social media does not drive protest movements but offers momentum to them.

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Hill, Tim, Robin Canniford, and Peter Millward. "Against Modern Football: Mobilising Protest Movements in Social Media." Sociology 52, no. 4 (August 9, 2016): 688–708. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038516660040.

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Recent debates in sociology consider how Internet communications might catalyse leaderless, open-ended, affective social movements that broaden support and bypass traditional institutional channels to create change. We extend this work into the field of leisure and lifestyle politics with an empirical study of Internet-mediated protest movement, Stand Against Modern Football. We explain how social media facilitate communications that transcend longstanding rivalries, and engender shared affective frames that unite diverse groups against corporate logics. In examining grassroots organisation, communication and protest actions that span online and urban locations, we discover sustained interconnectedness with traditional social movements, political parties, the media and the corporate targets of protests. Finally, we suggest that Internet-based social movements establish stable forms of organisation and leadership at these networked intersections in order to advance instrumental programmes of change.

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Hurd, Madeleine. "Introduction: Social Movements: Ritual, Space and Media." Culture Unbound 6, no. 2 (April 17, 2014): 287–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.146287.

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Perera, Sasanka. "Conceptualising Social Movements and Situating Media Politics." Society and Culture in South Asia 5, no. 2 (July 2019): 171–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2393861719845165.

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Barker‐Plummer, Bernadette. "The dialogic of media and social movements." Peace Review 8, no. 1 (March 1996): 27–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10402659608425926.

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Gaby, Sarah, and Neal Caren. "THE RISE OF INEQUALITY: HOW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS SHAPE DISCURSIVE FIELDS*." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 21, no. 4 (December 1, 2016): 413–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.17813/1086-671x-21-4-413.

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Social movement scholars have considered several political and cultural consequences of social movements, but have paid limited attention to whether and how social movements shape discourse. We develop a theory of discursive eruption, referring to the ability of radical movements to initially ignite media coverage but not control the content once other actors— particularly those that can take advantage of journalistic norms—enter the discourse. We hold that one long-term outcome of radical social movements is the ability to alter discursive fields through mechanisms such as increasing the salience and content of movement-based issues. We examine the way movements shape discourse by focusing on newspaper articles about inequality before, during, and after the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. We analyze changes in the salience and content of coverage as well as shifts in actor standing and influence. Using 7,024 articles from eight newspapers, we find that the OWS movement increased media attention to inequality, shifting the focus of the discourse toward movement-based issue areas (e.g., the middle class and minimum wage). Further, we find that compared to the pre-OWS period, the influence of social movement organizations and think tanks rose in discourse on inequality. In addition, the discourse on inequality became more highly politicized as a result of the Occupy movement. These findings highlight the importance of social movements in shaping discourse and indicate that social movement scholars should further consider discursive changes as a consequence of social movements.

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Hwang, Hyesun, and Kee-Ok Kim. "Social media as a tool for social movements: the effect of social media use and social capital on intention to participate in social movements." International Journal of Consumer Studies 39, no. 5 (August 24, 2015): 478–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ijcs.12221.

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Vaz Cabral Filho, Adilson, and Ana Lúcia Nunes de Sousa. ""Hate the media? Be the media!" Indymedia contributions for an in-action media reform." Comunicación, propaganda y movimientos revolucionarios en la historia, Especial (May 30, 2022): 23–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.24137/raeic.9.e.2.

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This research focuses on the historical process of Indymedia throughout the 2000s and its legacy for contemporary media activism in a digital convergence era. It highlights Indymedia’s contributions to the media reform movement in connection among social movements, strengthening the role of communication in their specific agendas. Indymedia legacy is a reference for communication democratization beyond regulation and public policies’ perspectives, but also clarifies the need for social mobilization with communication products and processes for a society that demands democracy.

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Subekti, Tia, and Irza Khurun'in. "Online Activism of Social Community in Handling Social Issues in The City Of Malang." Jurnal READ (Research of Empowerment and Development) 1, no. 1 (August 7, 2020): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.20884/1.read.2020.1.1.2385.

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his paper aims to see the formation of social movements in Malang addressing social issues in Malang. Some of the movements that become the focus of this paper are the Malang Care Community or ASLI Malang and Social and Humanist Society in Malang. Interestingly, the communities are doing their activities online and using social media as the main instrument of movement. If in general online media based-communities are only informative, it is different with Malang. Here the communities perform real actions such as social activities. For examples: social aids for victims of natural disasters, street children, poor people who need help, and other problems. Last but not least is the emergence of free motorcycle-taxi riders that arose due to the protest of angkot (city transport) drivers toward online motorcycle taxi resulting in an angkot drivers’ strike. The movement was able to collect motorcycle-rider volunteers up to 700 motorcycles and 80 cars. The 4 days activity was the culmination of the social community awakening which arises in response to socio-dynamic in society The emergence of various social communities is the marker of the rise of civilian powers and the strengthening of non-state actors. The social community as a form of movement becomes an alternative for civil society to engage in social issues, rather than to join political organizations such as political parties or interest groups whose main interests are political interests. Charles Tilly (2004) defines social movements as an organized public collective effort to make certain claims to the intended authorities. Sidney Tarrow (2004) explains that social movements are generally born from social problems that lead to contentious. The orientation of social movements is to create a world order of social justice. Furthermore, in data collection, the authors conducted in-depth interviews, observations, and documentation. By using social movement perspective, the main argument in this paper is, first, social media is the social community's main strategy for activism. Second, the pattern of social movements that arise is departing from social concerns of civil society in the city of Malang in view of social issues. Third, the formation of activism conducted by the social community in the City of Malang City aims to respond to social problem

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Surzhko-Harned, Lena, and Andrew J. Zahuranec. "Framing the revolution: the role of social media in Ukraine's Euromaidan movement." Nationalities Papers 45, no. 5 (September 2017): 758–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00905992.2017.1289162.

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The role of social media as a tool of mobilization, communication, and organization of social movements has been well documented since the Arab Spring. The public information posted on social media sites also presents researchers with a unique tool to study protests movements from within. The proposed study utilizes the theoretical foundation of issue framing literature and examines the social media framing of the Ukrainian Euromaidan protest movement. The original dataset traces the activities of the users on the social media site Facebook from 21 November 2013 to February 2014. While foreign media sources portrayed the Ukrainian crisis as a geopolitical struggle, the results of our analysis show that the participants of the protest conceptualized their movement in terms of domestic issues and an anti-regime revolution rather than a geopolitical crossroad between the EU and Russia. This study contributes to our understanding of the role social media sites play in the activities of protest movements, such as Euromaidan. Furthermore, it highlights the importance of social media as a tool of issue framing on par with the traditional sources of framing such as mass media and political elites.

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La Rosa, Amaro. "Movimientos sociales, redes sociales y recursos simbólicos." Correspondencias & Análisis, no. 6 (October 27, 2016): 47–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.24265/cian.2016.n6.03.

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Luthfa, Samina. "Showcasing Environmental Justice Movements from the South: Comparing the Role of Media in Bangladesh." Society and Culture in South Asia 5, no. 2 (July 2019): 290–328. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2393861719845168.

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When we think about the role of media in social movements, we identify media’s representation of the core grievance of the movement, traction of the movement in the media and its role in helping the movement. Using two examples from Bangladesh’s recent environmental justice movements, I show the changing role of media coverage on the movements, given the political opportunity structures available and discuss the differences between the cases. Using newspaper data and social media interactions, I compare the dynamics of media’s treatment of two movements, one against a proposed open cast coal mine in Phulbari, Dinajpur and another protesting against the establishment of a coal-fired power plant near Sundarbans. For the first case, I analyze the role of print media and for the second, both print and social media. I argue that both old and new media served as stages showcasing contested meanings of development, environmental injustice in both cases. However, I also show that the differences between the contribution in motivating the resistances by old and new media is different. However, both types of media, when appropriated by the capitalist interests can become weapons against the marginalized more often than it works as a space for upholding their voices.

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Fitrah, Andi Awaluddin, Hermin Indah Wahyuni, and I. Gusti Ngurah Putra. "Social Media & Organizational Management of Contemporary Socio-Cultural Movement: An Instrumental Case Study of Akademi Berbagi in Indonesia." Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations 21, no. 3 (December 1, 2019): 51. http://dx.doi.org/10.21018/rjcpr.2019.3.282.

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The rise of the internet and social media has promoted the evolution of a new form of social movement in Indonesia, one that has predominantly promoted socio-cultural, rather than political change. However, many of these movements have continued to face the classic challenges of social movements, particularly consistency and sustainability. As such, a number of movements have dissolved as they have been unable to accumulate and allocate their resources. This article has taken on internet-based social movement, Akademi Berbagi (Akber), for an instrumental case study. Akber is a movement that has emerged and been active almost wholly through Twitter, with its main goal being to promote sociocultural change at the individual level, particularly in the field of education. This article seeks to analyse the organizational management of Akber, referring specifically to its organizational efforts and strategies to accumulate and allocate its resources. Data were collected through interviews and online/offline observations, as well as investigation of the digital documents from the official social media accounts of Akber and its members. This research finds that the optimal management of socio-cultural movements such as Akber relies on several factors, including the use of various internet platforms, the loose federal organizational structure, the movement’s ability to avoid the trap of pseudo-support, and the ability to respond to external changes.

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Rohman, Abdul. "Persistent connection and participation: New media use in post-peace movement Ambon, Indonesia." New Media & Society 21, no. 8 (March 7, 2019): 1787–803. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444819831973.

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The use of new media platforms has been evident in social movements at local, regional, and international levels. Many studies have shown that these platforms are tools to mobilize resources, facilitate coordination and information sharing, and access a wider audience. These studies, however, have been situated in the periods when the movements rise and peak, giving little attention to the use of such platforms in the post-movement phase. Based on interviews and participant observation of a peace movement in Ambon, Indonesia, this research found that the peace movement actors use Facebook, Twitter, Path, WhatsApp, SMS, and mobile phones for maintaining existing relationships, reanimating memories, keeping up with current movements, amplifying ongoing movements, and sharing new grievances. The platforms provide the actors with opportunities to sustain their existing networks. Hence, the movement persists and influences later movements. The findings offer the potential to better understand the continuity and change of technologically enabled social movements.

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Caren, Neal, Kenneth T. Andrews, and Todd Lu. "Contemporary Social Movements in a Hybrid Media Environment." Annual Review of Sociology 46, no. 1 (July 30, 2020): 443–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-121919-054627.

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Media are central to the dynamics of protest and social movements. Contemporary social movements face a shifting environment composed of new media technologies and platforms that enable new identities, organizational forms, and practices. We review recent research focusing on the ways in which movements shape and are shaped by the media environment and the ways in which changes in the media environment have reshaped participation, mobilization, and impacts of activism. We conclude with the following recommendations for scholarship in this burgeoning area: move toward a broader conception of media in movements; expand engagement with scholarship in neighboring disciplines that study politics, media, and communication; develop new methodological and analytical skills for emerging forms of media; and investigate the ways in which media are enhancing, altering, or undermining the ability of movements to mobilize support, shape broader identities and attitudes, and secure new advantages from targets and authorities.

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Mirbabaie, Milad, Felix Brünker, Magdalena Wischnewski, and Judith Meinert. "The Development of Connective Action during Social Movements on Social Media." ACM Transactions on Social Computing 4, no. 1 (April 2021): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3446981.

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In recent years, the development of information communication technologies, such as social media, has changed the way people communicate and engage in social movements. While conventional movements were fought in the streets, social media has enabled movements to take place online. In this article, we aim to investigate the role of social media during social movements that evolve online under the scope of the theory of connective action. Specifically, we examined Twitter communication during the #metoo debate. To this end, we examined two datasets (2017 and 2019) and combined methods from social media analytics to identify influential users, with a manual content analysis to classify influential users into roles. Likewise, a manual classification found distinct communication categories. Through regression analysis, we were able to gage the individual contribution of these categories and roles based on the retweet probability. This study introduces for the first time the terms of connective action starters and maintainers.

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Havas, Clemens, Lorenz Wendlinger, Julian Stier, Sahib Julka, Veronika Krieger, Cornelia Ferner, Andreas Petutschnig, Michael Granitzer, Stefan Wegenkittl, and Bernd Resch. "Spatio-Temporal Machine Learning Analysis of Social Media Data and Refugee Movement Statistics." ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 10, no. 8 (July 23, 2021): 498. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10080498.

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In 2015, within the timespan of only a few months, more than a million people made their way from Turkey to Central Europe in the wake of the Syrian civil war. At the time, public authorities and relief organisations struggled with the admission, transfer, care, and accommodation of refugees due to the information gap about ongoing refugee movements. Therefore, we propose an approach utilising machine learning methods and publicly available data to provide more information about refugee movements. The approach combines methods to analyse the textual, temporal and spatial features of social media data and the number of arriving refugees of historical refugee movement statistics to provide relevant and up to date information about refugee movements and expected numbers. The results include spatial patterns and factual information about collective refugee movements extracted from social media data that match actual movement patterns. Furthermore, our approach enables us to forecast and simulate refugee movements to forecast an increase or decrease in the number of incoming refugees and to analyse potential future scenarios. We demonstrate that the approach proposed in this article benefits refugee management and vastly improves the status quo.

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Faisol, A. Zahid. "NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENT AGAINST COVID-19 IN INDONESIA (Socio-Historical Study of Twiterr Social Media During a Pandemic)." QAULAN: Journal of Islamic Communication 3, no. 1 (June 22, 2022): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.21154/qaulan.v3i1.3956.

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Abstract: Social media twitter is seen as a form of transformation of the social movement strategy undertaken by the community to fight and prevent the corona virus that has now entered Indonesian territory. In this case the public through social media twitter spread about health issues and how to prevent the corona virus in Indonesia. Public efforts to carry out social movements are jointly conducting education through the hashtag on Twitter, because as there are many consumptive behaviors in the use of social media, Twitter is one of the ways that is considered fast in conveying a condition or event related to the current corona outbreak has spread to various countries. In this study using descriptive qualitative methods and analyzed using the theory of social movements from Anthony Giddens. It can be concluded that the use of social media Twitter is a form of community efforts to fight against the corona virus through the use of hashtag (#) on Twitter, which has succeeded in moving the community towards efforts to prevent corona virus outbreaks in a short time. Keywords: Social Movement, Twitter Social Media, Corona Virus

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Crossley, Alison Dahl. "Facebook Feminism: Social Media, Blogs, and New Technologies of Contemporary U.S. Feminism*." Mobilization: An International Quarterly 20, no. 2 (June 1, 2015): 253–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.17813/1086-671x-20-2-253.

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Social networks and interpersonal ties are critical to social movements. They help recruit members, sustain organizations, nourish participants' movement identities, and disseminate information. Scholarship has pointed to the formative role of social media and other information and communication technologies in online and offline mobilization. Questions remain, however, regarding how online social and friendship networks shape social movements. In this article, I draw from literature on social networks, online mobilization, and women's movements to examine the role of online feminist social networks in feminist mobilization. Presenting qualitative data from a racially and geographically heterogeneous group of college feminists, I argue that Facebook and feminist blogs enlarge and nourish feminist networks, create online feminist communities, expand recruitment bases for online and offline mobilization, and increase opportunities for online interaction with adversaries. Finally, I consider generational shifts in the feminist movement, and the broader relationship between friendship networks and online and offline mobilization.

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Fuchs, Christian. "Some Reflections on Manuel Castells’ Book "Networks of Outrage and Hope. Social Movements in the Internet Age"." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 10, no. 2 (December 9, 2012): 775–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v10i2.459.

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This paper provides critical reflections on Manuel Castells’ (2012) book Networks of Outrage and Hope. Social Movements in the Internet Age that analyses the “nature and perspectives of networked social movements” (p. 4) and gives special focus to the role of “social media” in movements that emerged in 2011 in Tunisia, Iceland, Egypt, Spain and the United States. I situate Castells’ book in an intellectual discourse that focuses on the political implications of social media and that has involved Clay Shirky, Malcolm Gladwell and Evgeny Morozov. The article also discusses the role of social theory and empirical research in Castells’ book, presents as an alternative a theoretical model of the relationship between social movements and the media, discusses the implications that some empirical data that focus on social media in the Egyptian revolution and the Occupy Wall Street movement have for Castells’ approach, discusses how Castells positions himself towards capitalism and compares his explanation of the crisis and his political views to David Harvey’s approach. Section overview: 1. Introduction 2. Social Media and Politics: A Controversy between Clay Shirky, Malcolm Gladwell and Evgeny Morozov 3. Castells on Social Media in the Context of Protests and Revolutions: The Dimension of Social Theory 4. Social Theory Recovered: A Model of the Relationship between Social Movements and the Media 5. Castells on Social Media in the Context of Protests and Revolutions: The Dimension of Empirical Research 6. Manuel Castells and David Harvey: The Question of Political Struggle - For or against Capitalism? 7. Conclusion

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Espiritu, Belinda F. "The Lumad Struggle for Social and Environmental Justice: Alternative Media in a Socio-Environmental Movement in the Philippines." Journal of Alternative & Community Media 2, no. 1 (April 1, 2017): 45–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/joacm_00031_1.

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This study examines the role of alternative media in the socio-environmental movement for justice for the Lumad, the indigenous peoples of the southern Philippines, and the fight to protect the environment in the Philippines from extractive companies and mono-crop plantations. Using thematic textual analysis and framing analysis, the study analysed selected news articles, press releases and advocacy articles from <uri href="http://www.bulatlat.com">bulatlat.com</uri> and civil society group websites posted online from September to December 2015. Anchored on Downings theory of alternative media as social movement media and Fuchs theory of alternative media as critical media, the study reveals four categories of alternative media: (1) as giver of voice to the oppressed Lumad; (2) as social movement media used for social mobilisation; (3) as an alternative media outfit fulfilling a complementary role with the socio-environmental movement; and (4) as making social movements offline activism visible. It concluded that alternative media play a vital role in socio-environmental movements and the continuing challenge to mitigate the climate crisis.

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Savolainen, Sonja, and Tuomas Ylä-Anttila. "The climate change movement and political parties: Mechanisms of social media and interaction during the 2019 electoral period in Finland." Nordic Journal of Media Studies 3, no. 1 (June 1, 2021): 40–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/njms-2021-0003.

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Abstract Building on the framework of electoral contention, we investigate the interaction dynamics between social movements and political parties during elections. We argue that social media today is an important venue for these interactions, and consequently, analysing social media data is useful for understanding the shifts in the conflict and alliance structures between movements and parties. We find that Twitter discussions on the climate change movement during the 2019 electoral period in Finland reveal a process of pre-election approaching and post-election distancing between the movement and parties. The Greens and the Left formed mutually beneficial coalitions with the movement preceding the elections and took distance from one another after these parties entered the government. These findings suggest that research on movement-party interaction should pay more attention to social media and undertake comparative studies to assess whether the approaching-distancing process and its constituent mechanisms characterise movements beyond the climate strikes in Finland.

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Mundt, Marcia, Karen Ross, and Charla M. Burnett. "Scaling Social Movements Through Social Media: The Case of Black Lives Matter." Social Media + Society 4, no. 4 (October 2018): 205630511880791. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305118807911.

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In this article, we explore the potential role of social media in helping movements expand and/or strengthen themselves internally, processes we refer to as scaling up. Drawing on a case study of Black Lives Matter (BLM) that includes both analysis of public social media accounts and interviews with BLM groups, we highlight possibilities created by social media for building connections, mobilizing participants and tangible resources, coalition building, and amplifying alternative narratives. We also discuss challenges and risks associated with using social media as a platform for scaling up. Our analysis suggests that while benefits of social media use outweigh its risks, careful management of online media platforms is necessary to mitigate concrete, physical risks that social media can create for activists.

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Harlow, Summer. "Social media and social movements: Facebook and an online Guatemalan justice movement that moved offline." New Media & Society 14, no. 2 (August 5, 2011): 225–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444811410408.

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Ryan, Charlotte, Kevin M. Carragee, and Cassie Schwerner. "Media, movements, and the quest for social justice." Journal of Applied Communication Research 26, no. 2 (May 1998): 165–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00909889809365500.

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Colin, Noyale. "Media practices, social movements and performativity: transdisciplinary approaches." Social Movement Studies 19, no. 3 (February 11, 2020): 369–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2020.1727734.

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Pajnik, Mojca, Marko Ribać, and Peter Sekloča. "Sensitizing the concept of mediatization for the study of social movements." Communications 45, s1 (November 18, 2020): 603–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/commun-2019-2064.

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AbstractWe suggest the “sensitizing concept of mediatization” as an analytical tool to analyze public communication of social movements in times of social, economic and political crisis, and we apply the tool to explore the case of the Slovenian uprisings of 2012–13. First, theoretically, we couple Tilly’s understanding of social movements’ practices with Hjarvard’s distinction between “direct” and “indirect” forms of mediatization. Second, in the empirical part, we categorize and classify movement organizations, activist initiatives and political groups into two distinct groups and observe how they respond to the media logic of newsworthiness and the political logic of office-seeking during the contentious actions of mass mobilization. We observe asymmetrical responses to processes of mediatization, which vary according to organizational structure, practices and movements’ vision of social transformation. The article shows how different protest groups respond to the three media logic techniques: a) personalization of political actors, b) decontextualization and simplification of transformative potential that are inherent to protest cycles, and how the two mobilized groups interact with the journalistic focus on c) spectacle and images of violence. We argue that the more the specific movement/group expresses criticism over the interplay of the media and the political logic, marked by the three discursive modes mentioned, the less it adopts the dominant media logic and the more it seeks for alternative and innovative media action.

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Cossu, Alberto. "Beyond Social Media Determinism? How Artists Reshape the Organization of Social Movements." Social Media + Society 4, no. 1 (January 2018): 205630511775071. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305117750717.

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Artists and creative workers are engaged once more in the social and political space. In the current wave, which started in the early 2010s, they have taken part in broad social movements (e.g., Occupy, Tahrir Square), created movements of their own (e.g., Network of Occupied Theaters in Italy and Greece), experimented with alternative economic models and currencies (e.g., Macao and D-CENT), carried out social research and radical education, partnered with institutional and social actors, supported neighborhoods, filled the void left by states’ retreat from the social, and hosted and co-produced art at a time when the budget for culture and independent art is being decreased in numerous countries across the world. This article aims to investigate the organizational and relational aspects of artistic social movements. Drawing on a 2-year-long ethnographic study conducted for my PhD dissertation and deploying a number of research techniques, including participant observation, digital methods, and semi-structured interviews, I propose a new understanding of the meaning of organization in contemporary artistic social movements. My article, focusing especially on data gathered on Macao, “The New Centre for Arts, Culture and Research of Milan,” constitutes an attempt to reflect on emerging organizational models in social movements.

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Keene, Jennifer D. "DEEDS NOT WORDS: AMERICAN SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS AND WORLD WAR I." Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 17, no. 4 (September 27, 2018): 704–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1537781418000336.

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This essay investigates how the repressive wartime political and social environment in World War I encouraged three key American social justice movements to devise new tactics and strategies to advance their respective causes. For the African American civil rights, female suffrage, and civil liberties movements, the First World War unintentionally provided fresh opportunities for movement building, a process that included recruiting members, refining ideological messaging, devising innovative media strategies, negotiating with the government, and participating in nonviolent street demonstrations. World War I thus represented an important moment in the histories of all three movements. The constructive, rather than destructive, impact of the war on social justice movements proved significant in the short term (for the suffragist movement) and the long term (for the civil rights and civil liberties movements). Ultimately, considering these three movements collectively offers new insights into American war culture and the history of social movements.

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Schwemmer, Carsten. "The Limited Influence of Right-Wing Movements on Social Media User Engagement." Social Media + Society 7, no. 3 (July 2021): 205630512110416. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20563051211041650.

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This article generates new insights into the dynamic interplay between social media content generated by right-wing movements, user engagement, and the public attention movements receive. I argue that movement leaders seek to achieve high user engagement for utilizing mechanisms of information diffusion to increase both online and on-site mobilization. In a case study, I analyze the German right-wing movement Pegida, which uses Facebook for spreading its anti-Islam agenda online. Data from Pegida’s Facebook page are combined with news reports over a period of 18 months to measure activity on Facebook and in the public sphere simultaneously. Results of quantitative text and time series analysis show that Pegida cannot influence user engagement by simply creating more posts. Instead, it is the content of posts that matters. Moreover, findings highlight a strong connection between Facebook activities and the public sphere. In times of decreasing attention, the movement changes its social media strategy in response to exogenous shocks: Pegida resorts increasingly to radical mobilization methods by posting xenophobic content that is more likely to incite users to engage on Facebook.

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Chakim, Sulkhan. "Social Media and Collective Identity Movement: Representation of Hizbut Tahrir Subculture in Indonesia." International Conference of Moslem Society 2 (April 23, 2018): 74–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.24090/icms.2018.1991.

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Social movement is a tool to achieve the ultimate goal, as well as the media used is as a tool to mobilize amongst people. This article contributes to the understanding of the social movements of the subculture and media cyber, as well as its implications for society on socio-religious movements. Based on qualitative research conducted in 2017 through textual analysis and response of HizbutTahrir members in every discourse by Hizbut Tahrir’s online. Hizbut Tahrir's online issues represent the subculture as a social movement depicting the collective social identity of major issues that related to different countries and general flows. Online media are able to mobilize actors to the grassroots level to reject the policies and concepts of statehood, and even the rejection of non-Muslim government leadership. The issue of this article is how online media influence, construct the identity of certain groups in socio-religious, and political issue.

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Zaman, Fahmida. "Agencies of Social Movements: Experiences of Bangladesh’s Shahbag Movement and Hefazat-e-Islam." Journal of Asian and African Studies 53, no. 3 (September 14, 2016): 339–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021909616666870.

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This paper aims to address the emergence of parallel yet contradictory social movements in Bangladesh and explore the following question: what political factors in Bangladesh led to the emergence of these parallel movements? Unlike what social movements discourse has addressed, Bangladesh has seen the rise of two powerful and binary camps. To understand the growth of such conflicting movements, this paper hypothesizes that the framing of identity and ideology by the movement participants and the media have engendered the concurrent yet conflicting movements in Bangladesh. The paper focuses on how framing strategies led to ideological polarization between these movements.

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PARTHASARATHI and Grishma KUMARI. "The Role and Impact of Social Media on Online Social Movements: An Analysis of ‘ALS Ice Bucket Challenge’ in India." Journal of Media Research 14, no. 1 (39) (March 15, 2021): 102–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/jmr.39.7.

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Online social movements have taken root and flourished in the last decade due to online communication networks attributed to Social media. In this paper, the mixed-method approach is utilized for qualita- tive and quantitative analysis to investigate the efficacy of social media in propounding the outcome of online social movements in India. Further, several factors which have a definite impact on the outcomes of such online social movements are highlighted. This study concludes that online social media campaigns can be viewed as an extension of ‘social norms media campaigns’. Further, it establishes that the internet penetration in India coupled with ‘online peer pressure’ accompanying such movements has ef- fectively aroused the consciousness of users towards such campaigns. It also highlights the alteration in the process of diffusion of ideas in society due to the advent of social media platforms.

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Specht, Doug, and Mirjam AF Ros-Tonen. "Gold, power, protest: Digital and social media and protests against large-scale mining projects in Colombia." New Media & Society 19, no. 12 (May 2, 2016): 1907–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444816644567.

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Colombia’s Internet connectivity has increased immensely. Colombia has also ‘opened for business’, leading to an influx of extractive projects to which social movements object heavily. Studies on the role of digital media in political mobilisation in developing countries are still scarce. Using surveys, interviews, and reviews of literature, policy papers, website and social media content, this study examines the role of digital and social media in social movement organisations and asks how increased digital connectivity can help spread knowledge and mobilise mining protests. Results show that the use of new media in Colombia is hindered by socioeconomic constraints, fear of oppression, the constraints of keyboard activism and strong hierarchical power structures within social movements. Hence, effects on political mobilisation are still limited. Social media do not spontaneously produce non-hierarchical knowledge structures. Attention to both internal and external knowledge sharing is therefore conditional to optimising digital and social media use.

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