Technology, Media and Social Movements
This book offers an interdisciplinary set of contributions from leading scholars, and explores the complex relationship between media, technology and social movements. It provides a valuable resource for scholars and students working in this rapidly developing field.
Providing theoretical engagement with contemporary debates in the field of social movements and new media, the book also includes a theoretical overview of central contemporary debates, a re-evaluation of theories of social movement communication, and a critical overview of media ecology and media approaches in social movement scholarship. The theoretical contributions are also developed through empirical case studies from around the world, including the use of Facebook in student protests in the UK, the way power operates in Anonymous, the politics of mundanity in China, the emotional dynamics on Twitter of Indias Nirbhaya protest, and analysis of Twitter networks in the transnational feminist campaign Take Back The Tech!.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Movement Studies.
Cristina Flesher Fominaya is co-Editor-in-Chief of Social Movement Studies, a Founding Editor of Interface Journal, and author of Social Movements and Globalization (2014). She is Reader in Social Politics and Media at Loughborough University, UK. She publishes widely on European and global social movements, hybrid parties, digital politics and media, collective identity, democracy, autonomy, and political participation.
Kevin Gillan is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK, and co-Editor-in-Chief of Social Movement Studies. His work focuses on the generation and communication of alternative conceptions of political economy within social movements. He is currently writing a book entitled How Capitalism Matters: Economy, Polity, Society.
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Contents
Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Kevin Gillan
Justus Uitermark
Jun Liu
Elena Pavan
Saifuddin Ahmed, Kokil Jaidka and Jaeho Cho
Alexander Hensby
Jennifer Earl and R. Kelly Garrett
Alice Mattoni
Guide
The chapters in this book were originally published in Social Movement Studies, volume 16, issue 4 (July 2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Navigating the technology-media-movements complex
Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Kevin Gillan
Social Movement Studies, volume 16, issue 4 (July 2017), pp. 383402
Chapter 2
Complex contention: analyzing power dynamics within Anonymous
Justus Uitermark
Social Movement Studies, volume 16, issue 4 (July 2017), pp. 403417
Chapter 3
From moments of madness to the politics of mundanity researching digital media and contentious collective actions in China
Jun Liu
Social Movement Studies, volume 16, issue 4 (July 2017), pp. 418432
Chapter 4
The integrative power of online collective action networks beyond protest. Exploring social media use in the process of institutionalization
Elena Pavan
Social Movement Studies, volume 16, issue 4 (July 2017), pp. 433446
Chapter 5
Tweeting Indias Nirbhaya protest: a study of emotional dynamics in an online social movement
Saifuddin Ahmed, Kokil Jaidka and Jaeho Cho
Social Movement Studies, volume 16, issue 4 (July 2017), pp. 447465
Chapter 6
Open networks and secret Facebook groups: exploring cycle effects on activists social media use in the 2010/11 UK student protests
Alexander Hensby
Social Movement Studies, volume 16, issue 4 (July 2017), pp. 466478
Chapter 7
The new information frontier: toward a more nuanced view of social movement communication
Jennifer Earl and R. Kelly Garrett
Social Movement Studies, volume 16, issue 4 (July 2017), pp. 479493
Chapter 8
A situated understanding of digital technologies in social movements. Media ecology and media practice approaches
Alice Mattoni
Social Movement Studies, volume 16, issue 4 (July 2017), pp. 494505
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Saifuddin Ahmed is a doctoral student in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Davis, USA. His research interests lie in new and emerging media, political communication, election studies, and public opinion. He is particularly interested in the transformative role of new media in civic and political engagement in technologically emerging societies.
Jaeho Cho is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Davis, USA. His research concerns the influence of mass media and communication technologies on political decision-making and behavior.
Jennifer Earl is Professor of Sociology and (by courtesy) Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, USA. She is Director Emerita of the Center for Information Technology and Society and Director Emerita of the Technology and Society PhD Emphasis, both at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Her research focuses on social movements, information technologies, and the sociology of law.
