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Dahlberg-Grundberg, Michael. "Digital media and the transnationalization of protests." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Sociologiska institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-114456.
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Recent developments in communications technology have transformed how social movements might mobilize, and how they can organize their activities. This thesis explores some of the geographical consequences of the use of digital media for political activism. It does this by focusing on the transnationalization of protests. The aim is to analyse how movements with different organizational structures and political scopes are affected by their use of digital media. This is done with a specific focus on how digital media use influences or enables transnational modes of organization and activism. The thesis comprises four different case studies where each study examines a social movement with a specific organizational structure. There are, however, also important similarities between the movements. In each study, somewhat different perspectives and methodological approaches are used. Some of the methods used are semi-structured interviews, content analysis of written data (retrieved from Facebook as well as Twitter), and social network analysis. The analysis indicates that digital media do have a role in the transnationalization of protest. This role, however, differs depending on what type of social movement one studies. The organizational structure of social movements, together with their specific forms of digital media use, influences how the transnationalization of protests and movements is articulated and formed. In cases where a social movement has a hierarchical organizational structure, there is less transnationalization, whereas in social movements with a more non-hierarchical organizational structure one sees more transnationalization. The thesis concludes that the transnationalization of protests is affected by social movements’ organizational structure. The more decentralized the social movement, the more vibrant the transnational public. In order to explain how transnational social movements, using digital media, can emerge in cases where geographical distances might make such coalitions unlikely, the thesis introduces the notion of affectual proximity. This concept helps us understand how transnational social movements, connecting actors from all over the world, can emerge through digital media.
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D'Urbano, Paolo. "Ikhwan web : digital activism and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2012. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/16815/.
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The research focuses on the practices of digital activism and political communication of the Muslim Brotherhood, examining a selection of meda outlets established by the group before the 25 January revolution. In doing so, it attempts to answer the following research questions: what is the political role of digital technologies? How is one to conceive of the role they play in relation to contemporary social movements? The thesis argues that the political role of new media is to be found in their capacity to store information. Far from merely making claims to authorities or expressing identities, social movements produce knowledges about the territories they inhabit. What new media provide social movements with is the capacity to assemble digital archives, which in turn enable them to organize and produce knowledge. By going online, social movements create archives of their own history, read against the grain others' archives or remember what was arbitrarily removed from them. For keeping memory is never an innocent act, but always an exquisitely political one. Having positioned the theoretical argument in relation to both social movement and new media studies, I will then proceed to apply it to three cases of study. Two chapters will examine and compare the official websites of the Muslim Brotherhood - one in English, the other in Arabic. The last chapter focuses instead on the development of an Ikhwan-related blogosphere. The research argues that the adoption of new media was both beneficial and detrimental to the organization. Digital technologies did help the group in circumventing the obstacles imposed by the regime, yet they equally enabled internally marginalized subjects, such as the youth, to intervene in decisionmaking processes and pierce the ideological veil of unity and cohesion.
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Crawford, Fiona. "Augmenting author-activism: An examination of how a continuing primary text and digital media inform contemporary non-fiction author-activism." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/101096/1/Fiona_Crawford_Thesis.pdf.
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Using a print magazine and associated digital media, this research focused on the intersection of existing writing practice, transmedia activism, and their interplay with old and new media. It identified and examined existing non-fiction author–activists' practices and considered innovative storytelling approaches that might enhance and extend contemporary author–activist practices to encourage social change.
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Lintelman, Karryn Audra. "Students for Social Change: Activist Literacy and Digital Media." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1248473294.
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Krüger, Katharina. "Ontological Security of Women : The Role of Digital Feminist Activism." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-89032.
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Ontological Security Studies have been grounded on the ideas of Giddens (1991a,b). It describes how humans can face challenges of the modern world without being overwhelmed by anxieties. Since then many scholars such as Steele (2008) and Mitzen (2006) have developed his ideas furthermore. However, ontological security still lacks in terms of gender aspects (Kinnvall and Mitzen, 2016), individual security seeking (Croft and Vaughan-Williams, 2016) or the role of community rather than the state to secure ontological security (Berenskoetter, 2012). This thesis focusses on all three themes when analysing how women use mechanisms to strengthen their ontological security within the online community. Feminism is a strategy for women to build a common identity. Women used the #metoo to share their experience of sexual harassment and anxieties in a gender-hierarchical power system. Human development and security is not only physical security but includes living in freedom of fear, want and in dignity. Threats which challenge systems of believe, such as living in an equal world or living without fear, lead to ontological insecurity. Therefore, women look out for new routines which provide security. Drawing on existing scholarship, this thesis aims to undercover if digital feminist activism can be a source for women to gain ontological security when the state fails to provide it. A social constructivist approach is followed within the research. The aim is to acknowledge the experience and practices of the different perspectives: by female activists and women opposed to feminist movements. Therefore, the empirical basis of this study contains 198 Twitter posts which are sampled out of 6679 posts. A content analysis helped to understand the dynamics of online behaviour and furthermore, puts it into the context of their everyday experience.
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Alsahi, Huda. "Feminist Activism and Digital Feminist Activism in the Arab Gulf States: the case of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait." Doctoral thesis, Scuola Normale Superiore, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11384/86221.
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Riera, Taryn. "Online Feminisms: Feminist Community Building and Activism in a Digital Age." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2015. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/653.
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This thesis explores both what feminism looks like in a digital age, as well as how the Internet and technology inform the ways in which feminists interact, build communities, and form identities. I found that online feminist spaces are built as communities of validation and support, education and empowerment, as well as spaces of radicalization and contention. Ultimately my thesis leads toward a new understanding of feminist activism that incorporates the unique characteristics and abilities of online feminism.
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Galusky, Wyatt. "Virtually Uninhabitable: A Critical Analysis of Digital Environmental Anti-Toxics Activism." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/28117.
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In this dissertation, I analyze online environmental anti-toxics activism. Environmental activist groups have created a presence on the World Wide Web to help empower people to become aware of and struggle against pollution. The sites that I explore (http://www.epa.gov/tri/, http://www.epa.gov/enviro/wme/, http://www.rtknet.org/, and http://www.scorecard.org/) serve as devices of this empowerment and by extension recruit people to the political goals of anti-toxics activism.
In my analysis, I focus on a series of questions germane to this context. How can/does this movement go online and utilize that presence to sway others to their cause and ideology? How then is that cause represented digitally, in the online medium? What are the reciprocal impacts of that representation on the movement itself? Most importantly, what form of activist identity is being promoted through the mediation of the online interface? That is, how are the identity of the self as activist and the related understanding of space and place altered through their translation into a digital environment? What are the parameters and limitations of digitally mediated, informed empowerment?
I undertake to critique empowerment as found through the digital translation of environmental anti-toxics activism into the virtual space of the Web. I show that particular uses of this Internet application invent (reinvent/reinforce) versions of environmental anti-toxics activism, digitized versions which must be understood in terms of their wider assumptions and implications. I break the study into three main parts. The first part lays theoretical groundwork for studying Web-based entities. The second part deals with more particular foundational elements for digital environmental anti-toxics activism, especially in terms of information. In the final section, I analyze and critique the forms of digital identity and empowerment that the websites create. I conclude that digital empowerment, defined primarily through access to expert information, actually represents an impoverished version of empowerment which may do little to aid real-world toxic struggles.Ph. D.
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Vivienne, Sonja. "Digital storytelling as everyday activism : Queer identity, voice and networked publics." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/60660/1/Sonja_Vivienne_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis investigates the role of personal Digital Stories shared in public spaces as catalysts for social change. By analysing the influence of workshop facilitators, organisations, digital platforms and networked publics on voice and self-representation, it sheds light on shifting meanings of publicness and privacy, both face to face and online. This thesis argues that, despite numerous obstacles, the cumulative influence of diverse voices dispersed among networked publics shape new cultural norms, thereby contributing to gradual social change.
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Fernández, Planells Ariadna 1983. "Keeping up with the news: youth culture, social activism & digital communication." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/371740.
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Esta tesis presenta una exploración global del uso de medios e información a partir del estudio de las generaciones más jóvenes, tanto en su día a día así como en situaciones excepcionales. Para tal fin, hemos abordado los hábitos de consumo de medios, noticias e información de jóvenes y activistas, los soportes utilizados para el consumo de información, las motivaciones para consumir-la de un medio u otro, en un soporte u otro y las demandas de la juventud sobre los contenidos informativos.
Se trata de una tesis doctoral por compendio de artículos. Los seis artículos que la componen contribuyen, de este modo, a aumentar la comprensión de las actitudes informativas de las personas jóvenes en etapas, edades y contextos distintos. A partir de una primera aproximación al consumo mediático de jóvenes adolescentes en sus rutinas diarias, la tesis se adentra en un contexto específico (el activismo) y en una práctica mediática definida (la búsqueda de información). El resultado presenta un escenario amplio y completo de la ecología de medios de las personas jóvenes y, concretamente, de los/las jóvenes activistas de los nuevos movimientos en red como el Movimiento 15M o el Umbrella Movement. De este modo, nuestra investigación aporta conocimientos sobre un segmento de la población de vital importancia para comprender el futuro de la comunicación, dada su condición de ciudadanos jóvenes, activos y comprometidos con la sociedad. Además, aporta modelos de análisis que pueden ser utilizados para futuras investigaciones o por parte de otros investigadores.Aquesta tesi presenta una exploració global de l'ús de mitjans i informació d'actualitat a partir de l'estudi de les generacions més joves, tant en el seu dia a dia així com en situacions excepcionals. Hem abordat l’estudi dels hàbits de consum de mitjans, notícies i informació de joves i activistes, els suports utilitzats per consumir informació d'actualitat, les motivacions per consumir-la d'un mitjà o d’un altre, amb un suport o un altre i què esperen les persones joves dels continguts informatius. Es tracta d'una tesi doctoral per compendi d'articles. Sis són els articles que la composen i que contribueixen a incrementar la comprensió de les actituds informatives de les persones joves en etapes, edats i contextos diferents. A partir d'una primera aproximació al consum mediàtic de joves adolescents en les seves rutines diàries, la tesi s'endinsa en un context específic (l’activisme) i en una pràctica mediàtica definida (la cerca d’informació). Els resultats presenten un escenari ampli i complert de l'ecologia de mitjans de les persones joves i, concretament, dels i les joves activistes dels nous moviments en xarxa com el Moviment 15M o l’Umbrella Movement. D'aquesta manera, la nostra investigació aporta coneixement sobre un segment de la població d'importància vital per comprendre el futur de la comunicació, donada la seva condició de ciutadans joves, actius i compromesos amb la societat. A més, aporta models d'anàlisi que poden ser utilitzats per a futures investigacions i/o per part d'altres investigadors.
The thesis presents a global exploration of youth information behaviour, both in their daily lives and in specific situations. Media and information consumption habits among young people and young activists have been studied, as well as the media used for news consumption, the motivations to choose information from one media or another, and youth expectations about news content. This is a thesis submitted in the form of compendium of publications. Each of the six papers contributes to enhance the understanding of young people’s information behaviour in different stages, ages and contexts. The first approach is made through teenagers’ media habits. Afterwards, the thesis delves into a specific context (activism) and a particular media practice (keeping up with the news). The results show us a broad and comprehensive picture of young people’s media ecology. More concretely, it sheds light on the ecology of young activists who participated in the so-called networked social movements, such as the 15M Movement or the Umbrella Movement. Therefore, our research provides insight into a crucial age group that can help us to understand future trends of the communicative landscape. The thesis also provides models of analysis that can be used for future research and/or by other researchers.
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Özkula, Suay Melisa. "#digital_disruption @amnesty international : from digital to networked to hybrid activism : a case study of the meaning and adoption of digital activism in changing 20th century civil society organisations." Thesis, University of Kent, 2017. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/61796/.
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Like many organisations in the 21st century, longstanding civil society organisations are facing new challenges in adapting to the digital age. This thesis addresses those concerns through an exploration of the social meaning and contextualised effects of digital activism at case study Amnesty International. It provides a socio-cultural account of AI and a conceptual perspective on digital activism as part of Amnesty's digitalisation processes. It explores existing concerns around the tension between the potential of digital activism for more decentralised, grassroots movements through broadened political participation, and the more centralised and hierarchical structures developed by long-standing humanitarian organisations - a problem which has been described as the tension between networks and hierarchies (e.g. Lindgren 2013a: 24-25) or between sovereignty and networks (Galloway & Thacker 2007: 1). This study contends that there are analytical issues and conceptual implications in describing the new activism as "digital", as what I shall call "digitality" here is neither the sole nor the primary feature along which activism has changed in recent years. The study will argue that digital activism is conceptually dysfunctional because practices described as digital activism aren't always based predominantly on digital activities, which is reflected in participants' descriptions of the phenomenon. Digitality as a descriptor is therefore misleading. The concepts of networked activism (activism based on wide social networks as facilitated by digital technology) and hybrid activism (activism based on top-down and bottom-up co-construction) will therefore be suggested as potentially more suitable descriptions or categories for what has thus far been called digital activism. Those attributes were highlighted as the dominant characteristics of the new activism by study participants. The thesis further argues that humanitarian organisations are facing difficulties in conceptualising and adopting digital activism to the extent that digital activism has become disruptive to them. For that purpose, the thesis draws on Simon Lindgren's (2013a) work on the sociology of digital disruption. The thesis argues that digital disruption occurs as a result of digital activism challenging hierarchical organisational structures, practices, and cultures, leading to structural and cultural changes. It further argues that, in response to the cultural and structural challenges posed by digital activism, the organisation is moving away from an understanding of digital activism and culture as something that is digital towards something that is networked, which is reflected in participant views and the organisation' restructuring of its digital work from a centralised to a networked model. There are also tentative efforts at Amnesty International to move beyond a network model towards co-constructive (hybrid) working practices with its constituencies. As evidence for the disruptive potential of digital activism the thesis will provide staff members' differing views of digital media and digital activism, uncertainty surrounding the terminology for digital activism, and the organisation's continuously changing integration of digital work (digitalisation). The findings draw on data from a multi-method quasi-ethnographic case study of digital activism conceptualisations and practices at Amnesty International. The methods include participant observation offline at the organisation's headquarters in London, online observation in the internal Amnesty International Social Media Managers' Facebook group, and 20 interviews with AI staff members.
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Trevisan, Filippo. "Connected citizens or digital isolation? : online disability activism in times of crisis." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2013. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/4561/.
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This thesis asks whether the internet can at all re-configure political participation into a more inclusive experience for disabled users, enhancing their stakes in citizenship. This issue assumes particular relevance at a time in which, amidst the worst economic crisis in decades, the rights of those traditionally excluded from civic life are at risk of being compromised even further. In an effort to transcend the restrictive access/accessibility framework applied so far in disability and new media research, this project focused on the “digitalisation” of disability activism in the wake of the radical welfare reform introduced by the UK government between 2010 and 2012. A combination of emerging digital methods and established social science techniques were employed to map and analyse the groups involved in opposing proposed changes to disability welfare online. These included: hyperlink network analysis; an “inventory” of online media; content analysis of Facebook conversations; and semi-structured interviews with key figures from a variety of campaigning groups. Overall, this work exposed an evolution in the ecology of British disability activism involving both changes in the way in which existing organisations operate as well as the emergence of new, online-based players. In particular, three main group types were identified. These included: formal disability organisations (both “professionalised” charities and member-led groups); experienced disabled activists who experimented with e-campaigning for the first time; and a network of young disabled bloggers-turned-activists who operated exclusively online and rapidly gained visibility on both the internet and traditional mass media (i.e. print and broadcast). Each of these phenomena was explored in detail through the analysis of three emblematic case studies (The Hardest Hit; Disabled People Against Cuts; The Broken of Britain). Several findings emerged that invited reflections on both the changing nature of disability activism in the digital age and the significance of the internet as a civic resource for disadvantaged groups more broadly. To assess the influence of contextual factors on these trends, the online experience of British formal disability organisations was compared to that of their American counterparts, which in the same period were opposing proposals for drastic cuts to federal Medicaid funding. In Britain, established players were found to be blending traditional repertoires with participatory online tools in a bid to “survive” the pressure of changing user-expectations and the fast pace of contemporary politics. Meanwhile, a new generation of self-appointed disabled “leaders” used online media to construct a radically different form of disability activism. This was focused more on issues than ideology, aspiring to redesigning protest in a less contentious and arguably more effective fashion. Nevertheless, the high centralisation and rigid leadership style adopted by these very same campaigners also cast doubts on their ability to promote a more inclusive campaigning experience for online supporters, whose involvement ultimately constituted a form of “peer-mediated” citizenship rather than direct empowerment. At the same time, the comparative part of this study captured a counter-intuitive picture for which British formal disability organisations were ahead of their American counterparts in terms of online innovation. This generated some important reflections on the very nature of “context” in online politics with particular reference to the relationship between systemic and circumstantial factors, as well as the importance of acute crisis moments as triggers of progress in e-activism.
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Li, Mengyu. "Digital activism in the networked age : the case of #MeToo movement in China." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2020. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/851.
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Digital activism is an increasingly popular field in academia. However, scarce attention has been paid to the process of cultural and political mediation that have shaped different examples of the contents of digital activism as well as the character of actors who collectively utilize this instrument and also personally respond to the specific context in which digital activism emerges and evolves. This study investigates the #MeToo movement in the context of China as a concrete example of digital activism in a manner that ascribes attention to both digital technologies and activist practices. With regard to the practices of social movement, this study aims to capture the discursive processes that enable different actors to be recognized and make sense of themselves in public in the #MeToo movement in China. From the digital perspective, this study attempts to identify the characteristics of activists who participated in China's #MeToo movement. This study combined content analysis and discourse analysis with social network analysis to analyze the process and discourses on the #Metoo movement in China and examined the characteristics of actors who contributed to the promotion of the #MeToo movement on a networked public space. Following the three-stage model of social drama, five themes were identified in the narrative form of China's version of the #MeToo movement. This study also found that advocates and opponents of the #MeToo movement achieved their narrative agencies through the intersection of gender, sexuality, class, and culture in the Chinese sociocultural context. Finally, this study revealed that the expressive repertoires manifested in the reposting network of China's #MeToo and testified that homophily could exist between pairs of Weibo users along with similar attributes including gender, location, and engagement
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Street, Paige D. "Fashioning the revolution: Digital fashion activism and the narratives of responsibility on Instagram." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/229144/1/Paige_Street_Thesis.pdf.
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Taking activist organisation, Fashion Revolution as a case study, this thesis identifies how the social media platform Instagram is used as a fashionable and political space for consumer responsibility-taking. I analyse the digital messaging of Fashion Revolution and explore how complex questions of global responsibility are told through social media campaigns. The findings of this study point to the ways in which activism aimed at improving the fashion industry can reproduce class, race and gender-based assumptions about global justice.
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Sastre, Miriam. "e-FEMINISM: The Impact of Engaging Men in Digital Campaigning in Spain : How can men be included as allies in digital activism?" Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-18795.
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The fresh idea of including men in feminist campaigning might be a reaction to a postfeminist context with much uncertainty towards the feminist movement and arises a never-ending complex and contested issue within the feminist theory. This research aims at understanding the rise of feminist communication on social media, particularly on Instagram, with a special focus on men’s representation and involvement. Therefore, this paper will study men’s engagement in feminist digital campaigning on Instagram; and their representation and participation in this type of activism without ostracizing women. In recent years, social media have gained an increasing number of users, transforming these platforms into daily communication tools. Notably, Instagram has achieved considerable success with a growing use in e-commerce campaigns and social activism. In this context, this report will reduce its scope to Instagram feminist accounts in Spain and will consider the potential of social media for change by conducting surveys to feminist organisations and social media users and analysing the contents published by feminist influencers. All in all, this study responds to existing debates on how (or if) men should be included in the feminist movement. The clear conclusion to this DP is that there is not a simple answer to this matter.
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Farné, Alessandra. "Communication for social change and digital activism online discourses of united for global change." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/669051.
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Communication is a key element in promoting social change and, currently, social movements, one of the main drivers of socio-political demands aimed at transforming the existing system of injustices and inequalities, are carrying out profuse examples of communicative actions, particularly in the online realm. In this context, this thesis seeks to contribute to advance in the current scholarship on online communication for social change and, specifically, to explore which features of citizens¿ online communication promote engagement for global peaceful social change.
For that purpose, the research methodology combines mixed methods including bibliographic review of the literature in the field of online communication for social change, as well as (online) content and discourse analysis applied to an international initiative promoted by social movements. The study focuses on the case of United for Global Change, which is the name of an international day of protest that took place on October 15, 2011 (15O), following the reawakening of social movements from the Spring of that year. This case has been studied along three main axes: 1) analysis of web and social media content; 2) analysis of video activism and 3) analysis of media representations.
Research findings suggest that the actual setting of Web 2.0 enables new forms of constructing knowledge and meaning that are being leveraged by social movements to insert new narratives and communicative strategies into public discourses to promote peaceful social change. Specifically, these online communicative actions embrace the following facets: cross-cutting issues, inclusiveness, justice, hope, peace and nonviolence, video activism, and media-orientation.
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Perkins, Melissa F. "CRITICAL PEDAGOGY AND THE DIGITAL CLASSROOM: AWAKENING ACTIVISM THROUGH INSTRUCTION ON SOCIAL MEDIA WRITING." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1491576984030128.
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Furusten, Gustaf, and Ruth Ehrlund. "Den enes skräp är den andres skatt : En kvalitativ studie om hur aktivistisk interaktion kan leda till en digital samhörighet." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Medier och kommunikation, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-410038.
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This study aimed to get a deeper understanding of how people interact within groups on social media that originally stems from a hashtag-activistic campaign. The study was conducted on an empirically selected group using the hashtag #Trashtag on Facebook. #Trashtag is a hashtag used when picking up garbage in order to document pictures of ones work on social media. This study attempts to find out how the interaction within this group works and what makes people engage in the matter. This study is conducted through content- and text analysis as well as ethnographic observation online. The observation method is also the means in which the data for this study is collected. The following three theories is used as the theoretical framework for this study, participatory culture, making is connecting and uses and gratification alongside with an hermeneutic perspective. The main results for this study was found by observing 45 publications from one Facebook group with the mission to clean up a beach in Ireland. The observation showed that publications posted in the group varied between subjects concerning the constant litter and contamination on the beach too publications designed to inform about possible or direct causes of the problem. The main result of this study was an observation that a recurring way of motivating the group members to participate in the Facebook group was through emotionally charged content designed to provoke some kind of reaction. The engagement however is driven by positiveness and unconditional encouragement between the participants, negative vibes are not answered upon. Furthermore the study found that the urge to participate and contribute gives people a satisfactory feeling of achievement. Therefore activist groups like the one being researched in this study are important not just for the environment itself but also for the individual. The presented material in this study could be used for further research within this subject.
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Denisova, Anastasia. "Political memes as tools of dissent and alternative digital activism in the Russian-language Twitter." Thesis, University of Westminster, 2016. https://westminsterresearch.westminster.ac.uk/item/9zx1y/political-memes-as-tools-of-dissent-and-alternative-digital-activism-in-the-russian-language-twitter.
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This research has analysed the role of Internet memes in the contemporary Russian alternative discourse. It has identified memes as the Internet common language that users exploit to communicate on all topics and also utilise as the mind-bombs to influence the political discourse. This project focused on the employment of memes in the deliberation of the Crimean crisis in the Russian Twitter in 2014. Pro-government and anti-government activists have used this format of texts to promote their agenda and interpret the events, discuss political leaders, contest symbols of state propaganda and alternative narratives. The study is highly original as it followed the development of memes in real time; the interviews collected with the prominent meme makers and sharers stand out as the testaments of direct participants of this process. The subsequent in-depth analysis of the distributed memes unveiled the prevailing themes, narratives and symbols that shape the political and social discussion between the elites and resistance in contemporary Russia. This research on the role of the Internet memes in political deliberation of the Crimean crisis contributed to the under-studied field of political uses of memes in a non-Western authoritarian environment. The conceptual framework includes recent theory on the Internet memes, tactical activism, connective action, carnivalesque resistance, individual action frames and creativity for politics. Internet memes have proven to be a popular vehicle of critical political communication in Russian social networks due to the ease of producing and sharing, opportunity for self-expression and receiving feedback to one’s creativity and benefits of anonymity that escapes censorship and protects activists. My study has revealed that memes are limited in the sophistication of the ideas they can convey and in maintaining a long-term meaningful discourse; they serve as the in-jokes of digital communities; their ambiguity and anonymity challenges community building yet nurtures the spread of ideas; therefore, memes are more likely to serve as disruptive mind-bombs that connect ideas rather than individuals. This research has documented and analysed the media and political developments in Russia during 2011-2014 and provided suggestions for further research on the utilisation of entertaining artful texts for political deliberation, formation of the alternative discourse and political mobilisation in the restricted Russian media ecology.
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Wengel, Lea. "Post-political Numbness of a Digital Society : The Political Condition of Environmental Activism on Twitter." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-40880.
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Over the past decades, a widespread consensus has emerged regarding the anthropogenic causes and negative impacts of climate change. For instance, the environmental pollution reaches alarming dimensions on a global level implying immanent dangers to the future of humankind and nature. The need to take action in order to maintain the integrity of human and environmental systems has long been recognised by most political elites, business leaders, activists and the scientific community. Yet, it seems that political and economic institutions do not move on fast enough from words to actions. At the same time, a depoliticisation of the public sphere is observed repressing a radical critical discourse. Several political theorists and philosophers debate about the emergence of a post-political and postdemocratic condition, implying a state of politics of consensus. The thesis at hand aimed to investigate the post-political condition of climate change activism in the online realm by means of the case of a rather recent trend of environmental activism, the zero waste movement. A quantitative content analysis was conducted studying 500 #zerowaste tweets that were posted in April 2018. The content characteristics of the Twitter postings were analysed and a coding system developed to measure the post-political condition of communication practices in the environmental pollution debate on Twitter. The study finds that in particular civic actors (citizen and public personalities), commercial and nonprofit organisations engaged in the zero waste debate distributing informative content mobilising the public to make certain lifestyle decisions. It is furthermore revealed that the #zerowaste debate on Twitter is evidently depoliticised. The communication practices on the social media platform incorporated in many ways discursive strategies such as universalisation and externalisation resulting in a rationalised and moralised representation of the problem of environmental pollution.
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Taylor, Aimee N. "Fat Cyborgs: Body Positive Activism, Shifting Rhetorics and Identity Politics in the Fatosphere." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1479311506093833.
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Kryger, Pedersen Mette. "Digital ethnography and critical discourse analysis of the Zero waste movement on social media." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21382.
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The humankind uses more of earth’s resources than the planet’s ability to provide renewable resources (WWF 2016). This trend is also contributing to climate changes, which have been a topic on the global political agenda for decades. However, there has yet to be found a sustainable solution. People are becoming impatient of the politicians’ ability to solve the issue and through grassroot movements and activism a range of different approaches have been made to find solutions to climate changes. Social media provides new opportunities to organize large groups of loosely connected people of interest towards a common goal, in this case to take care of the planet. Social media have also developed new forms of political engagement. This thesis is a case study of climate change activism through the zero waste community in Denmark that based on framing theory (Goffman 1974), online observations of local Facebook groups and Instagram activity as well as in-depth interviews pursues to understand in what ways participants use social media to make their everyday climate activism meaningful. In this thesis, Bakardjieva (2009, 2012) concepts of subactivism and mundane citizenship combined with framing theory are used to understand the ways mundane climate change actions are perceived meaningful for the participants in the Danish zero waste community. The study shows examples of how participants of the zero waste community in Denmark use social media in a variety of ways to make their mundane climate activism meaningful for them. They use social media to be inspired, share experiences and feel part of a community that emphasize climate change activism through mundane every day routines. Through online discussions in Facebook groups and on Instagram the participants create, challenge and negotiate a collective action frame of the zero waste movement, which proves useful in motivating and inspiring them to continue to do small acts in their everyday life.
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Theocharis, I. "The digital silent revolution? : young people, political activism and cyber-cultural values in Britain and Greece." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2011. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1302547/.
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The thesis examines the impact of cultural values on young people's patterns of political participation. The core argument of the thesis is that electoral and party politics do not anymore accurately describe young people's participation trends which are moving away from the formal political arena towards a more extra-institutional type of participation. The thesis acknowledges the new opportunities for participation offered by the internet and the unexplored role of cultural values in the online space. Inglehart's theory of value change is used to explore the impact of postmaterialism on political participation in both offline and online realms. The thesis compares the youths of Greece and Britain. The two countries are compared due to their differences in the levels of postmaterialism, economic development and internet penetration. The thesis puts forward new and revised questionnaire items for the study of political participation and introduces an entirely new battery of questions for researching online political participation. According to the results, extra-institutional participation is a far more popular type of participation than traditional political participation in both Greece and Britain and in both its offline and online forms. In bivariate analysis, postmaterialism has a positive and statistically significant relationship with offline and online extra-institutional participation in both countries, while online extra-institutional participation is significantly associated with its offline aspect. In multivariate analysis, postmaterialism is a statistically significant predictor for extra-institutional participation in the case of Greece but only in the offline environment. Results from multivariate analysis also show that postmaterialism is not a statistically significant predictor for online or offline extra-institutional participation in Britain but remains an important contributing factor. Overall, young people in Greece are more politically active in the offline and online extra-institutional arena than young Britons. However, levels of postmaterialism among young people in the two countries are not statistically different.
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Greta, Bühring. "#DeleteFacebook and Hashtag Activism in a Perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-43818.
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This thesis aims to conduct an in-depth study of the activism surrounding the #DeleteFacebook hashtag by applying Critical Discourse Analysis. By theorizing framing, digital colonialism, power relations, and antagonism, this thesis examines the qualitative analysis of 1.987 Tweets posted on Twitter between 20 February and 4 March 2021. This study identifies the key thematic content of these Tweets and then conducts an in-depth critical analysis. These questions will be addressed in the research: “What are the principle discourse typologies and their intertextual interpretation of hashtag activism #DeleteFacebook?”, “What were the key themes that emerged during the #DeleteFacebook hashtag movement?” and “How can we interpret the online engagement with #DeleteFacebook as hashtag activism?”. This thesis presents an analysis of #DeleteFacebook related Tweets through coding and then reveals an intertextual analysis of it, including the social context. Also, this study provides a thorough review of the related literature concerning the costs of connection, social movements, hashtag activism, and collective identity. Finally, it concludes with a discussion reflecting on the role of digital colonialism and the power of Facebook.
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Calibeo, Diletta Luna. "On the Potential of New Media to Enhance Environmental Activism in the Australian Context." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/381393.
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Over the last two decades, positive claims have been consistently made worldwide about the potential of new media and more recently social media to enable easier, faster, and more universal political action and enhanced civic engagement. Challenging this potential, perhaps profoundly, however, are issues of expanding corporate media ownership of new media and state digital surveillance. As such, the focus of this study is on discerning more clearly the posited beneficial potential of new media to enhance environmental activism, as also contextualised by the posited limitations to that potential.
The overall aim of this study, as such, is to investigate the potential benefits and limitations of new media for Australian environmental activism regarding environmental protection, as particularly informed by campaigner perceptions of such potentiality. To fulfil this aim, the design of the research comprised two stages of investigation. The first stage comprised an extensive literature review informed by environmental politics, media studies, social movement theory, and science, technology and society (STS) studies. Relevant analytical themes identified from the literature review informed the development of the conceptual framework for downstream research.
The second stage comprised the application of the conceptual framework in collecting and analysing empirical data. Data collection was based on, first, web content analysis of a demonstrative sample of 15 environmental activist groups and organisations in Australia to distil the current usage of new media for environmental activism, the extent of which appeared high. Second, data collection was based on in-depth interviews with 34 environmental activists as representatives, and expert informants, of activist environmental groups and organisations across Australia campaigning to protect the environment on their views on the potential of new media for on-the-ground activism.
In conclusion, the thesis found good potential in new media to enhance environmental activism in Australia to protect the environment. However, key limitations remain, as canvassed in the literature, of increasing concentration of corporate media ownership and digital surveillance. As such, these potential limitations should pose some reasons for caution by environmental activists in Australia to ensure that democratic rights of freedom of speech and expression of dissent are protected.
Lastly, the thesis makes an original contribution to the literature in two ways. First, it contributes to strengthening existing knowledge on new media in first the Australian literature and then the international literature, as found at the intersection of environmental politics, media studies, social movements studies, and STS studies. Second, the conceptual framework contributes to theory building in identifying new issues and insights not explored before in the Australian landscape, including the potential impact of fake news, echo-chambers, and abusive behaviours and trolling on civic participation in environmental activism, as well as the limitation most held by Australian activists of reaching out to diverse audiences across an increasingly crowded and competitive digital space for environmental and social issues to be raised.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Boatenreiter, Maryana Ruth. ""Did you Read the Syllabus?" Twitter Did: Public Syllabi and Activist Writing Pedagogy." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564500466476402.
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Omar, Abdurahman. "The Ethiopian Muslims Protest in the Era of Social Media Activism." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-419675.
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The Islamic movement study mostly focused on radical, extremist, violent, or military aspects. The current research was carried out to examine the nonviolent elements of the Islamic movement. Based on the ethnographic photo research conducted in the Ethiopian Muslims Protest, the Islamic movements nonviolent aspect investigated. The Ethiopian Muslims were organized social media-led protests called Let Our Voices be Heard for their religious rights between 2011 and 2015. The study first examined where this Let Our Voices be Heard protest fits in civil resistance studies. Second, it investigated Facebook's role in initiating, organizing, and sustaining the nonviolent Islamic movement in Ethiopia. Using Johnston's defining terms of social movement theory, the Let Our Voices be Heard protest tested. The result shows that the protest well fit with the dimensions and components of social movement theory. The result indicates that the Let Our Voices be Heard protest exemplifies nonviolent Islamic movement in the Eastern Africa region, Ethiopia. The study further shows that Facebook, when used for a common goal, is a robust platform for successfully mobilizing nonviolent Islamic movements.
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Price, Jenna. "Destroying the joint: a case study of feminist digital activism in Australia and its account of fatal violence against women." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/21156.
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Destroy the Joint is a feminist movement born in the digital era and a productive example of information activism. It shows that digital activism can be sustained in the longer term, particularly through the performance of emotional labour and the accumulation of emotional capital. I interviewed thirty past and present moderators and administrators of Destroy The Joint (DTJ), and this thesis explores the ways in which these contemporary digital feminist activists use connective action to build progressive change. I introduce the transnational digital solidarity frame as a particular form of information activism, seen in the unique Counting Dead Women campaign on fatal violence against women. The activist backgrounds and experiences of individuals themselves also contributed to successful campaigning and helped to make them and their community resilient. Throughout the thesis I have applied Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus and various forms of capital to consider the specific attributes and labours of activists as a foundation for sustainable activism. Building on Arlie Hochschild’s research on emotional labour I unpack the experiences of, and labour involved in, feminist digital activism, and argue for more recognition of the centrality of emotional capital to feminism. The emotional labour in feminist digital activism includes being supportive, being kind, being resilient and being perennially available. These aspects of emotional labour are heightened within the digital context. This thesis has implications for the practice of feminist digital activism, including the benefit of including members with previous structured activist experience, tools and practices for using online groups as forums to provide support for other activists, and the importance of including activists with a diversity of skills and interests for long-term sustainability.
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James, Rina Lynne. "The Efficacy of Virtual Protest: Linking Digital Tactics to Outcomes in Activist Campaigns." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4008.
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Activists are increasingly relying on online tactics and digital tools to address social issues. This shift towards reliance on the Internet has been shown to have salient implications for social movement formation processes; however, the effectiveness of such actions for achieving specific goals remains largely unaddressed. This study explores how the types of Internet activism and digital tools used by activism campaigns relate to success in meeting stated goals. To address these questions, the study builds on an existing framework that distinguishes between four distinct types of Internet activism: brochure-ware, which is oriented towards information distribution; e-mobilizations, which treats digital media merely as a tool for mobilizing individuals offline; online participation, which is characterized by wholly online actions such as e-petitions or virtual protests; and online organizing, where organization of a movement takes place exclusively via the internet with no face-to-face coordination by organizers.
Ordinal regression models were conducted utilizing cross-sectional data from the Global Digital Activism Data Set (GDADS), a compilation of information on 426 activism campaigns from around the world that began between 2010 and 2012; additional data regarding the types of Internet activism used was also appended to the GDADS using source materials provided within the data set. The findings suggest that use of the Internet for mobilizing offline actions is negatively associated with campaign success, but that this does not hold true for protest actions organized without use of digital tools. E-petition use was also found to be negatively related to achievement of campaign goals.
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Hartl, Majcher Jessica. "Social justice and citizen participation on Tumblr: Examining the changing landscape of social activism in the digital era." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1510428529403768.
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De, Tolly Katherine Marianne. "Digital stories as tools for change : a study of the dynamics of technology use in social change activism." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10282008-163901.
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Glazunova, Sofya. "Digital media as a tool for non-systemic opposition in Russia: A case study of Alexey Navalny's populist communications on YouTube." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2020. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/205667/1/Sofya_Glazunova_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis looks at the digital communication strategies of outsiders of Russian politics opposed to the current political elite. This research contributes a case study of Russia’s popular opposition leader Alexey Navalny to the vibrant research fields of populism, investigative journalism, and digital media. The study concludes that the combination of investigative journalism and digital activism practices embedded in the populist style of communication on YouTube contributes to the survival of Russian opposition in the public sphere.
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Almeida, Vanessa Macedo da Silva. "Autonomia e comunicação: a articulação de coletivos anticapitalistas em rede." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/27/27154/tde-20012015-154314/.
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Este trabalho busca compreender as amarras e as potencialidades em torno do uso das mídias digitais por ativistas autônomos anticapitalistas. O objetivo é partir da discussão sobre a potência democratizante que a Internet ativa e chegar à análise de coletivos autônomos que produzem e divulgam no espaço digital um discurso anticapitalista. Embora as novas mídias façam parte da indústria na qual a informação é mercadoria e meio de reprodução da lógica de produção vigente, a existência de grupos que usufruem das mídias digitais para criticar o atual modelo político, econômico e social contribui para o crescimento descentralizado da construção e difusão do pensamento antissistêmico. Portanto, interessa a esta pesquisa refletir sobre as origens desse ativismo e seu potencial de transformação social. A narração de episódios recentes da trajetória do movimento autônomo - o levante zapatista, a Ação Global dos Povos e as ocupações de 2011- vai ajudar na compreensão de elementos encontrados nos protestos de junho de 2013 e na formação de uma rede de coletivos em espaços físicos e virtuais. A coleta de dados de redes sociais e entrevistas com militantes basearão a descrição das ações comunicativas empreendidas por esses ativistas.This paper seeks to understand the limits and potentialities surrounding the use of digital media by autonome anticapitalist activists. The purpose is to depart from the discussion about the democratizing potency that Internet activates and reach the analysis of autonome movements that produce and publish in the digital environment an anticapitalist speech. Although new media takes part of industry where information is merchandise and way of reproducing the logic of the current production, the existence of groups that take advantage of digital media to criticize the current political, economic and social model contributes to the decentralized growth of construction and dissemination of antisystemic thought. Therefore, this research is interested in reflect on the origins of this activism and its potential for social transformation. The narration of recent episodes of the trajectory of the autonomous movement - the Zapatista insurrection, the People\'s Global Action and occupations in 2011 - will help in the understanding of elements found in the protests of June 2013 and the formation of a network of collectives in physical and virtual spaces. The collection of data from social networks and interviews with militants will base the description of communicative actions undertaken by these activists.
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Hladiuc, Larisa. "Redefining civic engagement in the digital age : An ethnographic study of the #rezist protest in Romania." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, JMK, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-144069.
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Media is belittling millennials for the current overall decrease in civic engagement. They are criticized for their apparent lack of responsibility, political knowledge and reluctance to get involved in current affairs, and social media and the Internet have been regarded as contributing to this civic decline. Millennials choose more liquid forms of organizing, as they have uprooted from pre-established and stable collective identities. There is a change in generations and their activities, and millennials’ use of social media for both political and civic engagement is a growing research field now. Hence this thesis aims to determine how civic engagement has been redefined by new media and generational shifts. The Internet has been proven to entice citizens to thoroughly engage in politics, providing a framework for broad social participation, which is inherently democratic, becoming a potent tool for civic and political participation, a crucial motivation for the core constituency of movements. According to the theoretical and empirical material, with the emergence of new media, new concepts, such as online activism, have been materialized or old ones, such as simple protests, have simply shifted and adapted to current times. There is not a discontinuity but rather a redefinition of civic engagement. The findings of the current study are significant in this sense, as they support the theoretical concept of the reinvigoration of civic life through generational shifts and the rise of new media.
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Pérez-Altable, Laura. "Social movements and network analysis: the case of Tunisia digital activism before and during the Arab Spring (2010-2011)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/401386.
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This thesis aims to bridge social movement studies with media and communication studies, taking the case study of the Arab Spring in Tunisia and combining quantitative and qualitative approach. Methodologically, this thesis integrates social network analysis with qualitative content analysis and semi- structured interviews. The main objective is to give an account Tunisia’s digital network before and during the Arab Spring, along with its relationship with the social movement that characterized the Arab Spring in Tunisia. Overall, our research has identified a series of dynamics which determine the patterns of diffusion of information through digital networks. Our findings demonstrate that this networks tends to be highly participatory, but that it is also hierarchical, showing a power- law distribution. Nevertheless, this type of power distribution allows much information to spread quickly and reach a wide audience. Moreover, our study shows that the combination of online and offline networks was essential for the success of the Tunisian uprising.Esta tesis tiene el objetivo de proporcionar un puente entre las disciplinas de sociología y comunicación. Tomando como estudio de caso la primavera árabe en Túnez, esta investigación combina el enfoque cuantitativo y cualitativo. Metodológicamente en esta tesis se lleva a cabo un análisis de redes sociales, combinándolo con análisis de contenido cuantitativo y entrevistas semiestructuradas. El objetico principal es el de dar cuenta de la red digital de Túnez antes y durante la primavera árabe. En general, los resultados han identificado una serie de dinámicas que determinan los patrones de difusión de información a través de redes digitales. Nuestros resultados demuestran que estas redes tienden a ser más participativas, pero también jerárquicas. Esta estructura permite difundir más información en menor tiempo y llegar a un público más amplio. Por otra parte, nuestro estudio ha demostrado, además, que en nuestro caso de estudio resultó esencial la combinación de redes digitales y personales para el éxito de la primavera árabe en Túnez.
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Casteel, Diana. "Platform Matters: Comparative Content Analysis of the Women's March's Use of Facebook and Twitter." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1530266854989509.
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Place, Alison L. "IRL Feminism: Bridging Physical and Digital Spaces to Empower Millennial Activists." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1511970317427688.
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Suwana, Fiona. "Digital media and Indonesian young people: Building sustainable democratic institutions and practices." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/117670/2/Fiona_Suwana_Thesis.pdf.
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In Indonesia digital media practices have enabled more young people than ever before to participate in civic and political activism, but there is little knowledge about the processes, motivations, and literacies that these young people need for their participation. This thesis aims to investigate how Indonesian young people have been able to utilize digital media for civic engagement and political participation to support democracy in Indonesia. This research focuses on Indonesian young people and includes interviews with activists, politicians, and government staff that were involved in the Save KPK Movement 2015, as well as interviews and focus group discussions with university or college students in five universities and one college in or near Jakarta. This research revealed factors that affect young people’s digital media literacy and activism, as well as motivations and deterrents for being politically active in ways that support democratic practices and institutions in Indonesia.
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Schulze, Sheila, and Yvonne Mrukwa. "#GreenRecovery for Europe: A Content Analysis of tweets about the Green Recovery from COVID-19 on Twitter." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Malmö högskola, Institutionen för konst, kultur och kommunikation (K3), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-36968.
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The aim of this thesis is to investigate how digital activism is conducted on Twitter, particularly in relation to the dialogues and demands for Europe’s green economic recovery plan from COVID-19. It seeks to analyse the communication made using #GreenRecovery on Twitter by various actors over the period of May to June 2020, guided by the theory of public sphere and social movement and literature on digital activism, hashtag activism, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate Political Activity (CPA) using a qualitative and quantitative content analysis.By analysing the frequency patterns of tweets and by uncovering the different types of communication, this paper sheds light on the users involved as well as the issue frames and mobilisation strategies that were visible in the #GreenRecovery discourse . Results of this study demonstrate that #GreenRecovery is used by varying actors on Twitter such as individuals, social movements, businesses and others. Furthermore, the hashtag has been used to raise awareness, communicate particular information, mobilize action and also employ assertion as dominant digital spectator activity. Tweets with #GreenRecovery was primarily framed towards the need for a redesign of the economy, indicating demands for changes in policies by targeting accounts of political actors from the EU Commission. It is further implied that during the discourse, #GreenRecovery acted as a structural signifier as a response to the leaked proposal of the Recovery Plan demonstrating that it has the potential to create hashtag communities.
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Kleinhans, Jan-Peter. "Why are Gandhi and Thoreau AFK? : In Search for Civil Disobedience online." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Medier och kommunikation, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-204675.
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This thesis investigates if Distributed Denial-of-Service attacks constitute a valid form ofcivil disobedience online. For this purpose a multi-dimensional framework is established,drawing on Brownlee’s paradigm case and classical theory of civil disobedience. Threedifferent examples of DDoS attacks are then examined using this framework - the attacksfrom the Electronic Disturbance Theater in support of the Zapatista movement;Anonymous’ Operation Payback; Electrohippies’ attack against the World TradeOrganization. Following the framework, none of these DDoS attacks are able to constitute acivilly disobedient act online. The thesis then goes on and identifies four key issues, drawingon the results from the examples: The loss of 'individual presence', no inimitable feature ofDDoS attacks, impeding free speech and the danger of western imperialism. It concludes thatDDoS attacks cannot and should not be seen as a form of civil disobedience online. Thethesis further proposes that online actions, in order to be seen as civilly disobedient actsonline, need two additional features: An 'individual presence' of the protesters online tocompensate for the remoteness of cyberspace and an inimitable feature in order to berecognizable by society. Further research should investigate with this extended framework ifthere are valid forms of civil disobedience online.
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Wilkins, Denise Joy. "Power to the Tweeple? : the role of social media in the bridging and setting of boundaries in collective action." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33706.
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Social media is increasingly used for social protest, but does online participation advance the aims of social movements, or does it undermine efforts for social change? We explore this question in the present thesis by examining how the use of social media for collective action shapes, and is shaped by, the social psychological concerns of technology users. Adopting a diverse approach in terms of research questions and methodology, we examine how collective action is affected by: (1) features of the digital environment, (2) internet-enabled modes of participation, and (3) digitally-facilitated communities. Our findings demonstrate that group-level representations of the self and salient others are integral to the relationship between digital technology and collective action. Ultimately, we argue that digital technology can act as both a psychological bridge and barrier between disparate groups and issues; in this way it can both facilitate and undermine mobilisation efforts and broader aims for social change.
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Dennis, James William. "It's better to light a candle than to fantasize about a sun : social media, political participation and slacktivism in Britain." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2016. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/its-better-to-light-a-candle-than-to-fantasize-about-a-sun(56fffe9a-b209-4893-8cb7-740532da04a6).html.
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This thesis examines how routine social media use shapes political participation in Britain. Since the turn of the century, many commentators have argued that political activism has been compromised by “slacktivism,” a pejorative term that refers to supposedly inauthentic, low-threshold forms of political engagement online, such as signing an e-petition or “liking” a Facebook page. In contrast, this thesis establishes a new theoretical approach—the continuum of participation model—which illuminates what happens before political action occurs. This is explored in three interrelated contexts, using three different research methods: an ethnography of the political movement, 38 Degrees; an analysis of a corpus of individually-completed self-reflective media engagement diaries; and a series of laboratory experiments that were designed to replicate environments in which slacktivism is said to occur. I argue that Facebook and Twitter create new opportunities for cognitive engagement, discursive participation, and political mobilisation. 38 Degrees uses social media to support engagement repertoires that blend online and offline tactics. This organisational management of digital micro-activism provides participatory shortcuts, enabling large numbers of grassroots members to shape campaign strategy. But, in contrast to both advocates and critics of online participation, I find no evidence of a widespread, one-size-fits-all, self-expressive logic. Instead, I argue that we ought to think in terms of a typology of citizen roles in social media environments. Civic instigators and contributors engage in digital micro-activism by way of refining their political identity. Listeners use social media to consume political information but refrain from public forms of expression and instead take to private spaces for political discussion. When listeners do act it is not effortless, but carefully considered. Experiments show that these roles derive from pre-established personal preferences, rather than the stylistic presentation of information or visible indicators of the popularity of an information source. Overall, this study argues that slacktivism is inadequate and flawed as means of capturing the essence of contemporary political action. Social networking sites offer an important space for democratic engagement in the milieu of everyday life.
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Brock, Erin Lynn. "Please Type Here: Digital Petitions and the Intersections of the Web and Democracy." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1408023321.
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Hennschen, Lill. "A single case study exploring mediatized activism: How, why and with what consequences does the Danish activist movement #hvorerderenvoksen make use of Facebook as their primary communication channel?" Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22564.
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This study aims to explore how the Danish grassroots movement #hvorerderenvoksen is shaped through the usage of Facebook as their primary communication tool. Using the embedded case study method, this thesis describes in detail how and why the movement arose and explains the role of Facebook’s features, primarily groups and sites, for the movements external communication. As such, it will become clear that using Facebook is not merely a means to an end. Being an activist on Facebook means using and being used, it entails the acceleration of mobilisation, but also disciplining activist action in accordance with Facebook’s terms and conditions. This thesis will draw upon modern communication theories such as mediatization and network media logic and analyse #hvorerderenvoksen as a digital social phenomenon. As will become clear, digitalisation and even more so datafication processes play a role when critically examining contemporary activism. To sum up, this thesis aims to show how an activist movement is mediatized and strongly emphasizes the role of digitalization and media hybridity in this process. It suggests that future research will focus more on the influence datafication, and especially the collection of human data and its untransparent processing, has on mediatized activism.
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Gomes, Maurília de Souza. "Ativismo social digital: a inserção dos movimentos sociais de Manaus nas redes on-line." Universidade Federal do Amazonas, 2012. http://tede.ufam.edu.br/handle/tede/3698.
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This work aims at discussing the insertion of the digital technologies in the present times, with focus on the social mobilization strategies in the virtual scenery. It also encompasses discussion on the possible political, economic and cultural changes stemming from this process of insertion. Firstly, the notion of democracy and its basis for the building up of a democratic society are discussed. Next, some fundamental aspects relating to the concept of social movements are highlighted in order to allow comprehension about social movements in Brazil at present. Narrowing down the work, the way the social movements have used online social networks in Manaus are scrutinized. Based on exploratory research, two social organizations were chosen to be analyzed as for their use of the Internet: SINTEAM, the syndicate of the workers in education in the Amazonas State and Associação Difusão Amazonas, a collective action social organization. The results show that the two sampled organizations think the use of social networks differently. While the former is clearly representative of the traditional social movements, which have struggling to adapt to the new online reality, the latter is part of a new model of social organization , which have the Internet as a starting point around which all the actions are planned and put into practice. The analysis leads to a broader conclusion that the social subjects of our time have to rethink their working model, namely the communicative model, due to the changes in the scenery from an offline to an online society
Este trabalho discute a inserção das tecnologias digitais na sociedade contemporânea, problematizando sobre as táticas de mobilização a partir do ambiente virtual e, sobretudo, as possíveis transformações políticas, econômicas e culturais decorrentes deste processo. Discute a noção de democracia e as bases para construção de uma sociedade democrática. Destaca alguns aspectos relevantes para a compreensão do conceito de movimentos sociais e apresenta um panorama atual dos movimentos sociais no Brasil. Este estudo teve como o objetivo principal analisar a forma como os movimentos sociais de Manaus estão utilizando as redes sociais on-line em suas estratégias de comunicação. Baseando-se na pesquisa exploratória, foram selecionadas, como objeto de estudo, duas organizações sociais que utilizam essas redes: o Sindicato dos Trabalhadores em Educação do Estado do Amazonas e a Associação Difusão Amazonas. Os resultados revelaram duas realidades distintas: a primeira representa os movimentos sociais tradicionais que têm enfrentado inúmeras dificuldades de atuar na sociedade contemporânea, que exige, cada vez mais, a reformulação de suas práticas de atuação, sobretudo no que diz respeito aos processos comunicativos; a segunda faz parte de um novo modelo de movimento que tem o uso das Tecnologias da Informação e da Comunicação como marca principal de sua atuação, seja nos processos comunicativos ou organizacionais
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Sjöberg, Cecilia. "Not One (Woman) Less Social Media Activism to end Violence Against Women: The case of the Feminist Movement ‘Ni Una Menos’." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23344.
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The struggle to end violence against women and girls has long been a priority topic for women’s and feminist movements in Latin America. Lately, since the changes in the new media landscape (Castells 2015; Lievrouw, 2013) with the increased use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, the way women and feminist movements advocate their intentions are changing (Harcourt, 2013; Mathos, 2017). Departing from this reality, the aim is to investigate the role the use of social media activism played for the recent feminist movement, Ni Una Menos (NUM [Not One Less]), in Argentina and Chile while advocating for the end of violence against women. Taking a cross disciplinary approach this research combines theories from the fields of feminist studies, social movement and communication sciences. Through in-depth interviews with core activists from NUM both in Argentina and Chile as research method, it has been possible to identify the role of certain social media platforms for NUM’s tactical repertoire in their strive to advocate for the end of violence against women and girls. The findings also demonstrate the activism on social media platforms by the NUM movement has played an important role to set the topic on the public agenda in these countries, resulting in a generally greater awareness. Regardless off the role social media activism played, the importance seems to lie in a combination of activism on social media and the streets for feminist movements advocating to end violence against women because it assures a broad reach to all people in society. Nevertheless, to end violence against women in these countries much more effort is needed by society at large.
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Koskenniemi, Rickard. ""You think you do, but you don´t" : En netnografisk fallstudie av fanservern Nostalrius virtuella demonstration för kreationen av World of Warcraft vanilla/legacy servers." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Media- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-27114.
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The virtual and digital world develops and changes frequently, within recent technology and the ways of using it. A complex phenomenon online with variables which isn’t fully defined in how they should be used or their strengths. One such thing is the use of the virtual and it´s tools in social movements. But there exists a stigmatization about the concept of the virtual. And within it how effective or useful cyberactivism is compared to the physical protest. This essay will cover and present a certain case of digital activism where it’s specific quality lies in the almost exclusively presence in the virtual world. Where the main goal of the essay is to shed some light on this certain case and bring forth it’s qualities in terms of the virtual, virtual communities and digital activism. To try to explain, provide and create aspects for further research and new theories. The case in question is Nostalrius, a World of Warcraft private server. And their digital protest against the gaming company Blizzard. Where the main goal of their manifesto was to convince Blizzard that there is a big community hankering for a reinstallation of a certain earlier stage of the game World of Warcraft; vanilla. In which Nostalrius community in the end succeeded with their goal. As it is an already completed case the data was collected through archives from Nostalrius own website and forum as well as their Twitter feed in the form of print screens as well as links. And since the case have taken place online the essay has used and taken the shape of a netnography case study. Where the data was later analyzed in the light of the virtual, virtual communitys and digital activism; to understand its qualities and shape. Nostalrius activism took the shape of a versatile virtual demonstration which used several different digital and virtual tools to promote their manifesto. And from the data a framework was developed of different qualities which emerged from the case in study. Namely different forms concerning the importance of a well-defined activism structure in the dimensions of: leadership, opponent(s), goal(s), community and context. Where it´s believed that virtual activism will become an even more frequent used method in social movements if carried out in good fashion. And that the integration between the virtual world and the physical will be furthered and hopefully breach the conception where the virtual is viewed as something fake or unreliable.
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Parsloe, Sarah M. "“Real People. Real Stories.”: Self-Advocacy and Collective/Connective Action on the Digital Platform, The Mighty." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1497536100831896.
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Lima, Ana Maria Moraes de Albuquerque. "Inclusão Digital e protagonismo juvenil: um estudo em dois centros de tecnologia comunitária." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2005. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/10012.
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Previous issue date: 2005-05-11The present study aimed in identifying operational indicators of Young Activist Network project involving two groups of children ages 9 to 12 years old; the groups Young Activist and the Juventude Ativa. This study is part of an educational program that uses digital applied-technology as tool for developing events related to youth activism. This research was conducted in the community-based technology centers Juventude Interativa Social Lab and Telecentro Padre Joseph Alan Black located at Jardim Antartica in the north side of Sao Paulo city. This study is a qualitative research that uses the action research metodology (Hart). The proposed work approached digital inclusion as a mean to achieve social inclusion while attempts to overcome the digital gap on the fluency of the computer language and knowledge in building community-assets. Juventude Ativa group developed a workshop based on citizenship and environmental education and the Young Activist workshop had the foundation of Roger Hart s participation, theory of technological fluency (Resnick), citizenship (Pina) and other categories related from social aspects that emerged from Vygostky´s scope. Data collected were qualitative only, which were analyzed in two categories as follows; the Pina procedure for citizenship and Hart s participation and technological fluency with Resnick procedure. Our results support the development of youth activism actions using different models/focus. The action research cycle and the development of youth activism mediated by the use of digital technology was not developed in the Environmental Education Workshop by the Juventude Ativa group, but it was developed at the Young Activist Network Workshop using bottom-up model. Although, there was an obvious gain in their learning process using digital technology, the lack of technological fluency still exists causing a gap, which was well noticed in both workshops/ community technology centers.
O presente trabalho analisou a operacionalização dos projetos Rede de Jovens Ativistas e Juventude Ativa, através do desenvolvimento de ações de protagonismo juvenil. Foram desenvolvidas duas oficinas com 18 jovens de 9 a 12 anos ocorridas nos centros de tecnologia comunitária Laboratório Social Juventude Interativa e Telecentro Padre Joseph Alan Black situados no bairro do Jardim Antártica, zona norte da cidade de São Paulo. Esta é uma pesquisa qualitativa que utiliza da metodologia da pesquisa-ação (Hart) e realizou uma análise de dados de acordo com o modelo misto. A inclusão digital foi debatida através dos conceitos de uso da tecnologia para a inclusão social e da brecha digital gerada pela falta da fluência tecnológica, sendo associada esta temática ao protagonismo juvenil. As categorias previamente selecionadas para a análise dos dados foram cidadania (Pina), participação (Hart) e fluência tecnológica (Resnick) e outras relacionadas ao aspecto social emergiram da leitura dos dados tais como a leitura realizada do aspecto social sob a ótica de Vygotsky. Os resultados obtidos corroboram para o desenvolvimento de ações de protagonismo juvenil sob diferentes enfoques/modelos, onde o ciclo da pesquisa-ação não foi evidenciado na oficina de educação ambiental e na da Rede de Jovens Ativistas ocorreram algumas etapas. Conclui-se neste trabalho que apesar de ter havido um aprimoramento no uso das tecnologias digitais, a brecha digital gerada pela falta de fluência tecnológica continuou a existir nas duas oficinas realizadas em decorrência de problemas, tais como: o analfabetismo, pouco tempo para utilizar as tecnologias digitais. As ações de protagonismo juvenil só foram evidenciadas na oficina da Rede de Jovens Ativistas de acordo com um modelo bottom-up .
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Vieira, Kalyne de Souza. "Movimento “Põe no Rótulo”: Net-Ativismo e interações nas redes sociais digitais." Universidade Federal da Paraíba, 2016. http://tede.biblioteca.ufpb.br:8080/handle/tede/9795.
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This research investigates the formation of the net-activist movement "Põe no Rótulo", which appeared in digital social networks in February 2014, in order to sensitize society to the need for clear and precise information on allergenic ingredients on food labels. The study aims to understand how the interactions among subjects, technologies, territories and digital networks produced this net-activist action. The hypothesis of the research is that new communication and information technologies have produced an atmosphere able to approach and connect humans and nonhumans around common issues, promoting and stimulating actions that tensions the status quo. To understand this ambience, we chose the theoretical framework that recognizes the net-activism in the context of action and networked interaction. Thus, we seek support in Actor-Network Theory, in Connective Action, in Cosmopolitics, in Political Ecology, in Politician Transfiguration, as well as in the Networking, Ecology, Science Network Complexity, Social Networks and Digital Social Networks concepts. The study investigates the movement "Põe no Rótulo" interactions on the action's fanpage on Facebook, from February 2014 to June 2015. We conclude that movement "Põe no Rótulo" reveals the power of feeling and acting together, energized by networked digital materiality.
A presente pesquisa investiga a constituição do movimento net-ativista “Põe no Rótulo”, que surgiu nas redes sociais digitais em fevereiro de 2014, com objetivo de sensibilizar a sociedade para a necessidade de informações claras e precisas sobre ingredientes alergênicos nos rótulos de alimentos. O estudo tem como objetivo principal compreender o modo como as interações entre sujeitos, tecnologias, territórios e redes digitais produziram esta ação netativista. A hipótese da pesquisa é que as novas tecnologias de comunicação e informação produziram uma ambiência capaz de aproximar e conectar humanos e não humanos em torno de questões comuns, fomentando e dinamizando ações que tensionam o status quo. Para compreender esta ambiência, optamos pelo recorte teórico que reconhece o net-ativismo na perspectiva da ação e da interação em rede. Assim, buscamos apoio na Teoria Ator-Rede, no Ato Conectivo, na Cosmopolítica, na Ecologia Política, na Transfiguração do Político, bem como nas concepções de Rede, Ecologia, Complexidade, Ciência das Redes, Redes Sociais e Redes Sociais Digitais. O estudo investiga as interações do movimento “Põe no Rótulo” na fanpage da ação no Facebook, no período de fevereiro de 2014 a junho de 2015. Concluímos que o Movimento “Põe no Rótulo” revela a potência do sentir e agir junto, dinamizados pela materialidade digital em rede.