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Kaun, Anne, and Julie Uldam. "Digital activism: After the hype." New Media & Society 20, no. 6 (September 19, 2017): 2099–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444817731924.
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Research on digital activism has gained traction in recent years. At the same time, it remains a diverse and open field that lacks a coherent mode of inquiry. For the better or worse, digital activism remains a fuzzy term. In this introduction to a special issue on digital activism, we review current attempts to periodize and historicize digital activism. Although there is growing body of research on digitial activism, many contributions remain limited through their ahistorical approach and the digital universalism that they imply. Based on the contributions to the special issue, we argue for studying digital activisms in a way that traverses a two-dimensional axis of digital technologies and activist practices, striking the balance between context and media-specificity.
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Blaagaard, Bolette, and Mette Marie Roslyng. "Rethinking digital activism." MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 38, no. 72 (May 30, 2022): 045–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mk.v38i72.125721.
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This article explores the following research question: How is political activism expressed in connective, affective, and embodied ways, and how do these modes result in a rearticulation of the body and central activist signifiers? While connective and affective dimensions of digital activism offer invaluable insights into the new forms of activist organisation, it remains underexplored how the activist body and the concepts of “human” and “rights” are discursively produced through digital expressions of activism. Therefore, drawing on a purposive selection of digital content, we produce a discursive analysis of three illustrative cases of digital activism relating to three major political contemporary issues: Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and Extinction Rebellion. We argue that they each present different modes of embodied and discursively constructed signifiers of “human” and “rights”, which allows for a range of political aims and outcomes to be expressed through different degrees of antagonism calling, respectively, for deconstruction, inclusion, and expansion of the signifiers.
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Bekkaoui, Dr Tariq. "Transnational Political Activism and Imagined Identities: The Case of Larubi F Mirikan." International Journal of Research in Social Science and Humanities 05, no. 10 (2024): 136–45. https://doi.org/10.47505/ijrss.2024.10.11.
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This article examines the intersection of transnational political activism and identity formation in the YouTube videos of ChafikOmerani a Moroccan activist based in America,known online as "Larubi f Mirikan." Unlike many digital activists who focus solely on online engagement, Larubi’s activism aimstocreatetangible political change in Morocco by mobilizing citizens in his homeland. This article explores Larubi's dual Moroccan-American identity and how he employs symbols, language, and rhetoric to engage with his Moroccan audience. By analyzing his content, which tackles issues such as political corruption, human rights abuses, and the Moroccan Arab Spring,the study highlights how Larubi seeksto bridge the gap between digital activism and real-world political impact. Additionally, it assesses how his American citizenship influences his activism, offering both protection and a platform for criticism of Moroccan authorities. This investigation sheds light on the complexrelationship between diaspora activism, transnational identity, and digital media within the framework of global political movements
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Stokes, Ashli Q., and Wendy Atkins-Sayre. "PETA, rhetorical fracture, and the power of digital activism." Public Relations Inquiry 7, no. 2 (May 2018): 149–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2046147x18770216.
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Starting in 2013, SeaWorld faced a public relations disaster with the release of the documentary titled Blackfish that accused the company of mistreatment of its orcas. SeaWorld attempted to respond and rebuild its credibility, but activist group ‘People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA) doubled down on the corporation through its rhetorical shock tactics, deepening the organization’s woes. The PETA/SeaWorld controversy does more than provide another example of poor corporate public relations decision-making made in light of an activist group’s savvy use of digital technology. We argue that the case helps explain how digital technologies fundamentally change activism, whereby activists can use rhetorical fracturing, or quickly using digital media to puncture a target’s narrative, to create messages that challenge an opponent’s legitimacy to cultivate public opinion, thereby pressuring corporate policy change. Recent activism scholarship points out how digital media transforms organizational-activist relationships in profound ways, but this essay contributes to a gap in public relations scholarship by showing how strategic, message-level digital activism helps contribute to broad societal change. Indeed, given that SeaWorld’s stock was down nearly 40 percent in 2015 and ‘is about 50% below its all-time high’, its profits were down 84 percent in 2015, and attendance has fallen more than 7 percent at its parks, the case illustrates how digital activist campaigns help reshape societal understanding of a controversial issue such as using animals for entertainment.
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Car, Viktorija. "Digital Activism." Southeastern Europe 38, no. 2-3 (November 21, 2014): 213–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18763332-03802002.
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, technological innovations and the development of digital media have brought about new possibilities for media content providers and, because of their interactivity, for the users as well. The advent of the internet age, Web 2.0 technology, and the ubiquity of cell phones have imparted high expectations that new media technologies will systematically enhance civic engagement and further develop national and global political cultures. This paper focuses on how citizens in Croatia are taking the opportunities offered by new media for civil and political activism. Digital platforms are used more and more frequently for activism in Croatian civil society, especially Facebook – the number one digital tool activists use to spread information or invite members to events. It happened first in late April 2008, when third-year high school students, unified on a national level via Facebook, organized protests against the ‘national school-leaving examination’ that they had to take the year after. The protest was successful, and the Minister of Science and Education postponed the examination for another year. Since then, a number of different digital activities of civil engagement have been organized in Croatia, but the success of the first one has yet to be repeated. The conclusion of this paper is that digital activism in Croatia is not well developed yet. There are only a small number of activists who use digital media regularly and strategically for their actions, and they are usually found amongst the smaller, urban minority, as these opportunities for digital mobilization have not yet reached mainstream society. Usually, it is the same few groups that support different types of action, and use digital media for a variety of social and political goals.
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Maly, Ico. "New Right Metapolitics and the Algorithmic Activism of Schild & Vrienden." Social Media + Society 5, no. 2 (April 2019): 205630511985670. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305119856700.
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Digital media play an important role in the contemporary rise in visibility of New Right and far-right activist groups online, offline, and in the mainstream media. This visibility has boosted their online and offline mobilization power. Through a live digital ethnographic analysis of the rise of Schild & Vrienden, a recent Flemish far-right activist movement, I will argue that we should understand their online and offline activism as part of a “metapolitical battle” exploiting the affordances of digital media in a hybrid media system. Schild & Vrienden, just like most contemporary New Right movements, draws ideological and strategic inspiration from “ La Nouvelle Droite,” the French far-right school of thought. Following their lead, these activists focus first and foremost on the circulation and the normalization of ideas: the discursive or metapolitical battle for hegemony. Digital media like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube prove to be ideal platforms for that metapolitical battle enabling them to gain considerable discursive power in a hybrid media system. This article argues that the distribution of New Right content on these platforms presupposes digital literacy and algorithmic activism. “Algorithmic activists” are defined as activists who use (theoretical or practical) knowledge about the relative weight certain signals have within the proceduralized choices the algorithms of the media platforms make as proxies of human judgment, to reach their (meta)political goals. In this sense, “algorithmic activism” contributes to spreading their message by interacting with the post to trigger the algorithms of the medium, so that they boost the popularity rankings.
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Sevinç, Bayram. "Cultural Memory and Obstacles Challenging Digital Activist Muslims as Symbolic Violence." Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture 13, no. 3 (November 21, 2024): 410–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21659214-bja10111.
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Abstract Over the past two decades, Islamic movements and activism in the USA have progressed. The weak part of the explanation models for Islamic activism is an inclusive description of obstacles in the discursive field. These obstacles are essentially sources of symbolic violence in discourse. There is also a debate regarding the discursive representation of Muslims. Native and immigrant Muslims in the USA have struggled against the dominance of external discourses. Therefore, this study examines the essential boundaries and obstacles of the discursive field that activist Muslims (digital activists particularly) encounter when constructing discourses in the USA. In this study, I used the current activism findings to investigate the discursive field’s fundamental boundaries and obstacles. The research proves that barriers such as stigmatization, racialization, nativism, security paradigm, gender, marginalization, and discrimination form the main basis of symbolic violence.
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Merrill, Samuel. "Remembering like a state: Surveillance databases, digital activist traces and the repressive potential of mediated prospective memory." Memory Studies 17, no. 5 (October 2024): 1177–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17506980241262187.
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Departing from personal memories of protests in London and Berlin, in this article I make space within the memory-activism nexus to consider how contemporary activists are remembered by that which they conventionally target: the state. To do this, I first recount existing understandings of that nexus and the position of the state therein. I then emphasise how states remember activists via police surveillance databases before discussing the digital activist traces held in such databases via the concept of mediated prospective memory. Thereafter, I empirically ground these conceptual contributions via a discussion of the surveillance databases used in the United Kingdom and Germany and the growing adoption of automated facial recognition technology in these countries. This discussion relies on the work of police monitoring groups whose activism contributes, alongside the various actions of the state and its agencies that I foreground, to the complexity of the memory-activism nexus.
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Osepashvili, Dali. "The role of digital media in the environmental activism." Media Biznes Kultura, no. 2 (17) (December 18, 2024): 33–43. https://doi.org/10.4467/25442554.mbk.24.016.20890.
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The goal of this research is to show the results of the study of the role of social media in digital environmental activism as an example of Georgia. In the last few years there are a few studies which discuss digital environmental activism but this kind of research has not been conducted in Georgia, which emphasizes novelty and relevance. Methods of this study are semi-structured interviews with active users of the social media platforms and a qualitative content analysis of digital environmental activists’ pages on Facebook. As for the research questions, what is the role of digital media in environmental activism? Which social media platforms are used by activists? Which type of the activism is used by Georgian digital environmental activists? According to the results of this study, slacktivism is mainly observed in Georgian social media, when people try to express their position with electronic petitions, express position by avatar frames or using hashtags. There are some platforms on Facebook where environmental activists are united, but until now, there was only 1 case that actively collected citizens on the social media platform – Facebook – movement of “MyCityKills”. As the questioned respondents emphasized, despite the existence of environmental groups or pages on Facebook, it is still passive activism. It was the only case of manifestation of not only environmental activism, but also civil digital activism in general, when thousands of young volunteers mobilized through Facebook and on June 13, 2015, to clean the environment of Tbilisi affected by the flood and help people affected by the disaster.
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Vargas, Betiana Elizabeth. "Activismos digitales. Nuevas formas de lucha mediadas por plataformas en la era del capitalismo de la vigilancia." TSN Transatlantic Studies Network 16 (July 5, 2024): 14–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.24310/tsn.16.2024.20194.
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The academic concern for the role that activisms assume in the face of social problems in a troubled world maintains a pre-eminent relevance. Revolutionary waves are being registered as phenomena that express social demands. Understanding transmedia activism implies observing the reality beyond the struggles and polarizations of hashtags. In this context, what is understood by digital activism? How does the power dispute unfold in the digital territory? What is understood by performances? How is digital activism projected in the era of heightened Surveillance Capitalism? This paper aims to analyze academic productions that conceptualize, problematize and study digital activism. In addition, to characterize and understand their main features and identify trends and challenges that they present in the framework of Surveillance Capitalism. The methodological strategy was elaborated on the state of the art regarding digital activism. In order to analyze the current state of digital activism and its future evolution, search, selection, and bibliographic organization were included. Among the main findings, are the identification of studies that analyze the digital territory as a field of power dispute and the characterization of digital activism from social movements and collective political action and other forms of online participation, such as slacktivism.
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Rospitasari, Marina. "Youtube as alternative media for digital activism in documentary film creative industry." Jurnal Studi Komunikasi (Indonesian Journal of Communications Studies) 5, no. 3 (November 20, 2021): 665–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.25139/jsk.v5i3.3779.
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The development of the digital world provides ample scope to activists who are also engaged in Documentary Film Industry. In line with the democratic and deliberative spirit, YouTube, one of the social media platforms, has become an alternative media with a strategic positioning to be used by film activists to distribute their works. This research applied literature review and descriptive quantitative content analysis as a methodology. Based on alternative media theory, YouTube is alternative media that filmmakers utilise in the documentary film creative industry. Documentary films are products of the film industry and aspiration, identity struggle, and artistic expression. As a media representation of communication technology, YouTube provides ample opportunities for art activists to convey their critical ideas to voicing marginal groups’ aspirations. Based on reviewing the Watchdoc YouTube account, this research findings that YouTube supports filmmakers to develop interactive documentary and collaborative actions with other strategic stakeholders, such as Production House, NGO, individual activists, social communities, and educational institutions. According to the practising of digital activism, this phenomenon gives another perspective about building an activist network. Activism through the creative documentary industry is not reflected as people mobilisations but building engagement through the product (documentary film).
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Putraji, Zulfi I. "Aktivisme Twitter: crowdsourcing melalui tagar #100jutamaskerchallenge." Jurnal Komunikasi Profesional 6, no. 4 (August 31, 2022): 303–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.25139/jkp.v6i4.4521.
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The development of internet technology has become an important part in social and political movements. Social media is an important channel for the digital activism movement in the information era. This study examines the hashtag (#) in driving digital opinion and how hashtags act as a crowdsourcing platform, the method used is virtual ethnography by collecting tweet data related to the hashtag #100JutaMaskerChallenge. The concept of digital activisim and crowdsourcing used to analyze this digital phenomenon. The results of the study shows hashtags as an important factorfor digital activists in gathering information and trigger a movement in the real world.
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Fabian, Louise, and Camilla Møhring Reestorff. "Mediatization and the transformations of cultural activism." Conjunctions. Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation 2, no. 1 (October 2, 2015): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/tjcp.v2i1.22267.
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In this introduction we develop an understanding of mediatization and the transformations of cultural activism. The point of departure is that digital networks and processes of mediatization provide new opportunities as well as obstacles for activism, and it is therefore our task, as researchers, to understand the ways in which activist participation changes when it is increasingly mediatized. Thus, we investigate how digital networks redesign the modalities of activist participation and ask how we can understand the relation between media, culture, social movements, and activist participatory practices.
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Fileborn, Bianca, and Verity Trott. "“It ain’t a compliment”: Feminist data visualisation and digital street harassment advocacy." Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 28, no. 1 (September 29, 2021): 127–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13548565211045536.
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In an era of datafication, data visualisation is playing an increasing role in civic meaning-making processes. However, the conventions of data visualisation have been criticised for their reductiveness and rhetoric of neutrality and there have been recent efforts to develop feminist principles for designing data visualisations that are compatible with feminist epistemologies. In this article, we aim to examine how data visualisation is used in feminist activism and by feminist activists. Drawing on the example of digital street harassment activism, we analyse how street harassment is visualised in and through a selection of prominent activist social media accounts. We consider the platform affordances utilised by activists, and how these are harnessed in making street harassment ‘knowable'. Moreover, we critically interrogate which and whose experiences are ‘knowable’ via digital techniques, and what remains obscured and silenced. In analysing digital feminist activists’ practices, we argue that what constitutes ‘data visualisation’ itself must be situated within feminist epistemologies and praxis that centre lived experience as the starting point for knowledge production. Such an approach challenges and disrupts normative constructions of what constitutes data visualisation. Our findings demonstrate how feminist activists are adopting ‘traditional’ practices of speaking out and consciousness-raising to the digital sphere in the creation of a range of visualisations that represent the issue of street harassment. We consider the efficacy of these visualisations for achieving their intended purpose and how they might translate to policy and government responses, if this is indeed their goal. Further, we document a tension between feminist epistemologies and the prevailing logic of datafication or dataism and note how in an attempt to unite the two, some digital feminist activism has contributed to reproducing existing power structures, raising concerning implications at the policy level.
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Campos, Ricardo, José Alberto Simões, and Inês Pereira. "Digital media, youth practices and representations of recent activism in Portugal." Communications 43, no. 4 (November 8, 2018): 489–507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/commun-2018-0009.
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Abstract In recent years we have witnessed in several countries the rise of new and unexpected forms of collective mobilization and activism. The main goal of this article is to discuss the role played by digital devices and online platforms in how activism is currently being represented and practiced by young people. Our reflection is empirically grounded on a recent exploratory research project carried out in Portugal. This project, using an array of qualitative methods (ethnographic observation, in-depth interviews, etc.), had as its main purpose to explore young people’s digital activism. In this article we will discuss this project’s findings, analyzing not only the uses of digital media within a set of activist practices, but also the social representations built around this issue by different social actors participating in several activist groups.
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Chon, Myoung-Gi, and Hyojung Park. "Social Media Activism in the Digital Age: Testing an Integrative Model of Activism on Contentious Issues." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 97, no. 1 (March 19, 2019): 72–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077699019835896.
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The purpose of this study was to propose an integrative model of activism that explains why and how individuals in the networked society are engaged in contentious issues. Incorporating the situational theory of problem solving (STOPS), hostile media perception, affective injustice, and social media efficacy, this study examined how the integrative model of activism predicts social media activism and offline activism on three issues of gun ownership, immigration, and police use of power. The integrative model of activism provides a valuable standpoint to understand activist publics and serves as a springboard for further scholarly discussion on activism and conflict resolution.
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van der Ven, Hamish. "Can Digital Activism Change Sustainable Supply Chain Practices in the Agricultural Bioeconomy? Evidence from #Buttergate." Applied Sciences 14, no. 24 (December 19, 2024): 11893. https://doi.org/10.3390/app142411893.
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Under what conditions will digital activism elicit a response from industry? What is the nature of that response and how does it impact sustainable supply chain practices? I develop three hypotheses in response to these questions by examining a recent case of digital activism targeted at the use of a controversial bioproduct in the Canadian dairy industry. Drawing on 14 key informant interviews as well as a novel Twitter dataset, I hypothesize that digital activism can elicit a response from industry when it originates with a small number of activists, provided that it also spreads to traditional media. I further hypothesize that industry’s response will be superficial and result in only token changes to sustainable supply chain practices due to the ephemerality and lack of cohesion inherent in some forms of digital activism. These hypotheses lay a foundation for broader cross-sectoral research on how industries respond to digital activism directed at their supply chains and add nuance to ongoing debates about the efficacy of digital activism as a means of changing industry practices.
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Shafie, Tara. "Beyond Slacktivism: The Cases of K-pop Fans and Tiktok Teens." International Journal of Social Science Research 9, no. 2 (August 10, 2021): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijssr.v9i2.18924.
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With recent technology and social media, new forms of political activism have become widespread. Young people in particular, have been willing to embrace these new forms of activism. This paper examines new trends in digital activism through qualitative observations of Twitter and Tiktok, and three case studies of young people’s digital activism. In the first case study, Korean pop music (K-pop) fans thwarted police’s attempts to identify protesters by crashing police apps. In the second, they rendered white supremacist hashtags useless, by drowning out the hashtags with their own tweets. Finally, K-pop fans, along with Tiktok users, played a prank which humiliated the Trump reelection campaign. The study expands upon the life cycle effect and generational effects theories of political behavior, and develops a continuum with which to conceptualize and understand the nature of activism. It concludes that digital activism is characteristic of Gen Z, and has real-world impacts. This article pushes back on the notion that digital activism is mere “slacktivism” (low effort token support of a social movement). Instead, it argues that activism evolves along with technology and time, and that digital activism’s real-world impacts can be just as effective as conventional political activism.
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Madison, Nora, and Mathias Klang. "The Case for Digital Activism." Journal of Digital Social Research 2, no. 2 (September 4, 2020): 28–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.33621/jdsr.v2i2.25.
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Digital technologies have enabled a wider breadth of political participation. The barriers to participate and share political material, and to activate be part of wider political action has been significantly lowered. However, this lowered threshold seems to have brought with it a discussion of what level of activity should be required of political participation. To critics of online political participation the effortlessness of signaling political stances is easily criciised and forms part of a wider critique of the slackers using digtal technology. This slacker activism has been readily denigrated as slacktivism. The goal of this paper is to challenge this derrogative designation. By comparing online and offline activism this paper argues that tthe term does not bring a substantive argument to the discussion of the role of technology in online political participation, but rather is a form of digital discrimination where those uttering the term are more negative towards the potential of technology than aware of it's formative role in the shaping of the activist persona.
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Ellcessor, Elizabeth. "“One tweet to make so much noise”: Connected celebrity activism in the case of Marlee Matlin." New Media & Society 20, no. 1 (August 10, 2016): 255–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444816661551.
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Celebrity activism, online celebrity, and online activism are all growing areas of research, but have received relatively little integration. This article argues that connected celebrity activism deploys social media to forge a variety of connections, enabling activist values to pervade a celebrity persona, reinforcing perceptions of authenticity and recirculating those values to disparate audiences. In the case of Deaf American actor Marlee Matlin, media reform activism serves as a unifying feature, expressed via technologically-facilitated connections between her acting, activist, and online activities, creating a cohesive star text that is seemingly authentic in respect to both Deaf and celebrity identities without being stereotypical. Such centrality and unification via connected celebrity activism stands in contrast to more traditional celebrity activism, and draws upon the specific dynamics of digital media, online activism, and contemporary celebrity culture.
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Phillips, Cory. "Digital Communication and the Rise of Online Activism." Journal of Communication 5, no. 3 (June 7, 2024): 31–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.47941/jcomm.1983.
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Purpose: The general objective of the study was to explore digital communication and the rise of online activism. Methodology: The study adopted a desktop research methodology. Desk research refers to secondary data or that which can be collected without fieldwork. Desk research is basically involved in collecting data from existing resources hence it is often considered a low cost technique as compared to field research, as the main cost is involved in executive’s time, telephone charges and directories. Thus, the study relied on already published studies, reports and statistics. This secondary data was easily accessed through the online journals and library. Findings: The findings reveal that there exists a contextual and methodological gap relating to digital communication and the rise of online activism. Preliminary empirical review revealed that digital communication had fundamentally transformed social and political activism, enabling rapid mobilization and broad dissemination of information. This shift democratized participation, allowing diverse voices to contribute to movements. However, the study also highlighted challenges such as the ephemeral nature of online engagement and the risks of reliance on centralized platforms. Despite these challenges, the potential for digital activism to drive meaningful change was evident, provided that movements could sustain real-world action and build resilient networks. Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The Network Society Theory, Collective Action Theory and Framing Theory may be used to anchor future studies on digital communication and the rise of online activism. The study concluded that the integration of digital communication in activism required updates to theoretical frameworks to reflect the dynamic nature of online platforms. Practically, it recommended that activists enhance their digital strategies, prioritize digital literacy and security, and create engaging content to sustain participation. Policy-wise, it emphasized the need for regulations that protect online activism while preventing misinformation. Educational institutions were urged to incorporate digital activism into their curricula. Collaborative efforts among activists, tech developers, and policymakers were highlighted as essential for developing supportive technologies. Lastly, the study called for ongoing research to understand the long-term impacts and ethical implications of digital activism, noting its evolving influence on social and political landscapes.
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Jafari, Zeynolabedin, and Mohammadbagher Jafari. "Social Media as a Political Arena: A Qualitative Analysis of Online Activism." Interdisciplinary Studies in Society, Law, and Politics 1, no. 2 (2022): 19–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.61838/kman.isslp.1.2.4.
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This study aims to explore the dynamic role of social media as a political arena, specifically examining how it facilitates online activism. It seeks to uncover the various ways individuals and groups use social media platforms for political engagement, the impact of these activities on political awareness and change, and the challenges and barriers faced by activists in the digital space. Employing a qualitative research methodology, this study gathered data through semi-structured interviews with 31 participants actively involved in online political activism across diverse social media platforms. Theoretical saturation guided the number of interviews conducted, ensuring a comprehensive exploration of the phenomena under study. Data analysis followed an inductive approach, allowing for the emergence of themes and subthemes directly from the data. The analysis revealed four main themes: Platform Dynamics, Activism Engagement, Impact of Activism, and Challenges and Barriers. Platform Dynamics delves into the technical and operational aspects of social media that influence political engagement. Activism Engagement examines the strategies and forms of activism facilitated by digital platforms. Impact of Activism highlights the effects of digital activism on political discourse, policy, and social change. Challenges and Barriers address the various obstacles encountered by activists, including platform limitations and external interference. Social media has become an indispensable arena for political activism, offering both opportunities and challenges for engagement. While it enables unprecedented levels of participation and mobilization, activists face significant barriers, including platform algorithms, censorship, and the risk of online harassment. This study underscores the dual-edged nature of social media in political activism, highlighting the need for strategies that leverage its strengths while mitigating its limitations.
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Dube, Bekithemba, and Baldwin Hove. "What Now for the Zimbabwean Student Demonstrator? Online Activism and Its Challenges for University Students in A COVID-19 Lockdown." International Journal of Higher Education 11, no. 2 (October 8, 2021): 100. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/ijhe.v11n2p100.
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University student activism is generally characterized by protests and demonstrations by students who are reacting to social, political, and economic challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic revolutionized university student activism, and closed the geographical space for protests and demonstrations. The pandemic locked students out of the university campus, thus, rendering the traditional strategies of mass protests and demonstrations impossible. The COVID-19-induced lockdowns made it difficult, if not impossible, to mobilise for on-campus demonstrations and protests. It seems the pandemic is the last nail in the coffin of on-campus student protests. This theoretical paper uses a collective behaviour framework to explain the evolution of student activism in Zimbabwe, from the traditional on-campus politics to virtual activism. It discusses the challenges associated with cybernetic activism. The paper argues that, despite challenges, Zimbabwean university student activists need to migrate to a new world of digital technology and online activism. In the migration to online activism, students activists face a plethora of challenges. On top of the already existing obstacles, activists face new operational challenges related to trying to mobilise a constituency that has relocated to cyberspace. Student activists utilize the existing digital infrastructure to advance their politics, in spite of a hostile state security system and harsh economic environment, and other operational challenges.
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Salinas, Cecilia. "Water Drops." Journal of Extreme Anthropology 8, no. 1 (October 30, 2024): 23–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/jea.10528.
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This article examines how individuals of diverse cultural backgrounds in Norway participate in anti-racist activism via social media. It investigates the nature of digital activism compared to traditional paradigms, highlighting the varied forms of engagement enabled by digital technology. Drawing on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork among individuals in the arts and cultural sector, it reveals how seemingly minor actions on social media can spark organized activism, unveiling the political activism inherent in daily life and social media practices. The article argues that individuals not identifying as political activists still contribute to political change through everyday social media activities, suggesting that contemporary activism can exist without activists. Introducing the metaphor of ‘water drops’ the article conceptualizes everyday politics as small contributions that may collectively shape meaningful change. Small acts can be merely drops in a vast ocean without major significance. However, if sustained over time, efforts across disparate online spaces can coalesce to challenge and subvert dominant social narratives regarding difference, racism, discrimination, and exclusion. Thus, contemporary activism can thrive with ordinary people who contribute to collective social transformation through digital and mundane interactions.
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Sokowati, Muria Endah. "Feminist Activism in Digital Culture: Problems of Class and Ethics." Jurnal ASPIKOM 7, no. 2 (July 29, 2022): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.24329/aspikom.v7i2.1146.
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Social media is a platform used by feminist activists for activism. It overcomes spatial and temporal barriers, and helps spread the movement's message more quickly and efficiently. The participatory culture encourages the feminist movement to develop more massively. Many argue that social media helps feminist activists to empower women. Related to the statement, this study observes how activism practices in social media represent women's voices and problems. This study also seeks to reveal the problems in the movement. The researcher observed five accounts of feminist activists on Instagram (@Indonesiafeminis, @lawanpatriarki, @perempuanfeminis, @muslimahfeminis, @perempuan.merdeka). Through the virtual ethnography method, the researcher found a representation problem when digital feminist accounts published the problems experienced by women through their content. These accounts only represent middle-class women's problems. There is also an ethical problem because these accounts tend to be reactive by ignoring the ethics of doing activism.
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Ortuño Mengual, Pedro, and Virginia Villaplana Ruiz. "Activismo Transmedia. Narrativas de participación para el cambio social. Entre la comunicación creativa y el media art." Obra digital, no. 12 (February 28, 2017): 123–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.25029/od.2017.123.12.
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El artículo propone una revisión de prácticas activistas mediáticas, origen de las formas participativas de la narrativa transmedia, en relación al lugar y la acción política. La implantación de las redes digitales ha permitido el desarrollo de una cultura red. Se analizan prácticas artísticas de colectivos activistas y las nuevas propuestas desarrolladas con dispositivos móviles vía GPS y webdoc. En este sentido, se proponen tres líneas discursivas sobre el activismo transmedia: las aperturas narrativas del territorio y la ciudadanía, las políticas de acción y representación colectiva, y finalmente, la expresión de la experiencia mediante el testimonio.Transmedia activism. Participatory narratives for social changeAbstractWe propose a review of media activist practices giving rise to participative transmedia narratives in relation to political action and location. Digital networks have allowed the development of a network culture. We discuss artistic practices of activist groups and new proposals made via GPS with mobile devices and web documentaries. We identify three kinds of discourse in transmedia activism: narratives that open up to the regionand its inhabitants, policies for collective action and representation, and the expression of experiences through witness.Keywords: Transmedia, activism, participatory media practices, discursive communication, creative communication, social artpp. 123-144
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Wielk, Emily, and Alecea Standlee. "Fighting for Their Future: An Exploratory Study of Online Community Building in the Youth Climate Change Movement." Qualitative Sociology Review 17, no. 2 (April 30, 2021): 22–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.17.2.02.
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While offline iterations of the climate activism movement have spanned decades, today online involvement of youth through social media platforms has transformed the landscape of this social movement. Our research considers how youth climate activists utilize social media platforms to create and direct social movement communities towards greater collective action. Our project analyzes narrative framing and linguistic conventions to better understand how youth climate activists utilized Twitter to build community and mobilize followers around their movement. Our project identifies three emergent strategies, used by youth climate activists, that appear effective in engaging activist communities on Twitter. These strategies demonstrate the power of digital culture, and youth culture, in creating a collective identity within a diverse generation. This fusion of digital and physical resistance is an essential component of the youth climate activist strategy and may play a role in the future of emerging social movements.
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Freelon, Deen, Alice Marwick, and Daniel Kreiss. "False equivalencies: Online activism from left to right." Science 369, no. 6508 (September 3, 2020): 1197–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abb2428.
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Digital media are critical for contemporary activism—even low-effort “clicktivism” is politically consequential and contributes to offline participation. We argue that in the United States and throughout the industrialized West, left- and right-wing activists use digital and legacy media differently to achieve political goals. Although left-wing actors operate primarily through “hashtag activism” and offline protest, right-wing activists manipulate legacy media, migrate to alternative platforms, and work strategically with partisan media to spread their messages. Although scholarship suggests that the right has embraced strategic disinformation and conspiracy theories more than the left, more research is needed to reveal the magnitude and character of left-wing disinformation. Such ideological asymmetries between left- and right-wing activism hold critical implications for democratic practice, social media governance, and the interdisciplinary study of digital politics.
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Odriozola, Onintza, Iker Iraola, and Ane Larrinaga. "‘What tools should we use?’: Politicized youth’s perspectives on digital activism in the Basque Country." Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies 14, no. 2 (October 1, 2022): 267–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/cjcs_00072_1.
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As has occurred with all political activism, contentious counter-hegemonic activism has found a new space for political action on the internet. The massive expansion of digital space in recent years has increased the socializing importance of the field of communications, especially among young people. However, it is not known to what extent the use of internet-based tools has spread in the contemporary protest repertoires of young Basque activists. Based on qualitative research carried out with young pro-independence nationalist activists in the Basque Country in the period following the end of ETA’s armed activity, the main objective of this article is to analyse the scope and limits of digital activism from the point of view of these new political subjects. The principal finding is that activists construct hybrid communication systems, in which physical and virtual spaces are combined, and where their inheritance of a community-based counter-hegemonic political activism and experimentation with new forms have come together.
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Oghogho, Maryjane Y., and Dr O. M. C. Osazuwa. "The #Endsars Movement and the Reshaping of Political Discourse in a Digital Age: A Nigerian Case Study." International Journal of Research and Innovation in Applied Science IX, no. VI (2024): 194–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.51584/ijrias.2024.906017.
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Social media has become a powerful tool for activism, enabling movements like #EndSARS to advocate for human rights and social justice. This paper examines the impact of social media on the #EndSARS movement in Nigeria, focusing on how it empowered activists, raised awareness about police brutality, and promoted freedom of expression. Drawing on existing literature and empirical data, the study analyzes the role of social media in mobilizing support, documenting human rights abuses, and pressuring the government to address systemic issues within law enforcement. The findings highlight the positive influence of social media in amplifying marginalized voices, fostering global solidarity, and driving meaningful change. By leveraging platforms like Twitter and Instagram, the #EndSARS movement galvanized public support, attracted international attention, and contributed to disbanding the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The paper also explores the challenges faced by social media activism, including the spread of misinformation, government crackdowns on online dissent, and the digital divide that limits inclusivity in movements. In conclusion, the study underscores the importance of promoting digital literacy, advocating for digital rights, and addressing social media activism’s limitations to enhance future advocacy efforts’ effectiveness. By understanding the implications of social media activism for human rights advocacy in Nigeria and beyond, this research contributes to the ongoing discourse on the role of digital platforms in advancing social justice causes and holding governments accountable.
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Pratiwi, Andi Misbahul. "Mengupayakan Keadilan Bagi Korban Kekerasan Seksual Melalui Aktivisme Tagar: Kesempatan dan Kerentanan di Indonesia." Jurnal Perempuan 26, no. 3 (December 11, 2021): 207–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.34309/jp.v26i3.617.
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Digital technology brings new opportunities to accessing justice for women and marginalized groups after being excluded from conventional-masculine technology for decades. In the internet era, the use of social media has become very massive and intensive, therefore feminist activism in this digital space is unavoidable. Hashtag activism has become popular since the #MeToo movement and such an opportunity to seek justice for victims and survivors through voicing and documenting their voices. The use of hashtags (#) opens up opportunities for victims’ stories to be documented, connect with other stories, and go viral. In Indonesia, the use of hashtags in activism also occurs in more local contexts such as #KitaAgni, #SaveIbuNuril, #UIITidakAman, #KamiBersamaKorban, and #SahkanRUUPKS. Some hashtag activism has succeeded in initiating follow-up actions in the offline world, although not always viral stories get satisfactory case resolutions. This study uses a qualitative approach, and collecting the data through literature studies, especially on feminist theories ariund technology and digital such as; Science and Technology Studies (STS) feminism, cyberfeminism, technofeminism, and feminist digital activism. This paper finds that the digital space is a contested space where there are opportunities and vulnerabilities for victims, activists, and netizens to seek justice through hashtag activism.
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León, Velia Cecilia Bobes. "De las redes a las calles: El activismo digital en Cuba como nuevo espacio para la acción colectiva y la participación ciudadana." Cuban Studies 53, no. 1 (2024): 183–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cub.2024.a930644.
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RESUMEN: Este trabajo analiza el activismo digital (AD) que se ha venido desarrollando en Cuba en los últimos años y busca descubrir cuáles son sus impactos, así como los obstáculos y desafíos que enfrenta. Haciendo un recorrido por diferentes tipos de activismo, el análisis muestra que el AD ha propiciado un aumento de la expresión y actividad de los ciudadanos en el espacio público y facilitado la acción contenciosa y la protesta, abriendo nuevos canales de participación e incidencia a los ciudadanos, aunque también aumentado la vigilancia y el control estatal. Desde esta perspectiva, el AD se constituye como un antecedente del estallido social del 11J, por lo que su análisis puede aportar elementos para su comprensión. ABSTRACT: This article analyzes the digital activism that has been developing in Cuba in recent years and seeks to discover what its impacts are, as well as the obstacles and challenges it faces. Taking a tour of different types of activism, the analysis shows that the Digital Activism has led to an increase in the expression and activity of citizens in the public space and facilitated contentious action and protest, opening new channels of participation and incidence to citizens, but also increased surveillance and state control. From this perspective, the Digital Activism is constituted as a antecedent of the social explosion of 11J, so its analysis can contribute elements for its understanding.
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Tan, Jia. "Digital masquerading: Feminist media activism in China." Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal 13, no. 2 (May 22, 2017): 171–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1741659017710063.
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In March 2015, five young feminists were detained and accused of “disturbing public order” through their plan to circulate messages against sexual harassment in public transportation. This article focuses on the feminist media practices before and after the detention of the Feminist Five to shed light on the dynamics between state surveillance and incrimination, media activism, and feminist politics in China. Exploring the practices of the Youth Feminist Action School, it argues that the role of media in this new wave of feminist activism can be better understood as a form of “digital masquerading” in three ways. First, this captures the self-awareness and agency of feminists in their tactical use of media to circumvent censorship. Masquerading in the digital era is an active and self-conscious act leveraging the specificity of media practice to set the media agenda, increase public influence, and avoid censorship. Second, masquerading refers to the digital alteration of images in order to tactically represent women’s bodies in public spaces while circumventing censorship and possible criminalization. It highlights the figurative and the corporeal in online digital activist culture, which are oftentimes overlooked in existing literature. Third, while the masquerade in psychoanalytic theory emphasizes individualized gendered identity, the notion of digital masquerade points to the interface between the medium and the subjects, which involves collective efforts in assembling activist activities and remaking publicness.
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Kaviani, Darya, and Niloufar Salehi. "Bridging Action Frames: Instagram Infographics in U.S. Ethnic Movements." Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 6, CSCW1 (March 30, 2022): 1–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3512926.
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Instagram infographics are a digital activism tool that have redefined action frames for technology-facilitated social movements. From the 1960s through the 1980s, United States ethnic movements practiced collective action: ideologically unified, resource-intensive activism. Researchers have argued that modern technologically mediated movements, in contrast, practice connective action: individualized, low-resource online activism. We argue that Instagram infographics are both connective and collective. We conducted a qualitative interview study juxtaposing the insights of past and present U.S. ethnic movement activists and analyzed Black Lives Matter Instagram data over the course of 7 years (2014-2020). We find that Instagram infographic activism bridges connective and collective action in three ways: (1) Scope for Education: Visually enticing and digestible infographics reduce the friction of information dissemination, facilitating collective movement education while preserving customizability. (2) Reconciliation for Credibility: Activists use connective features to combat infographic misinformation and resolve internal differences, creating a trusted collective movement front. (3) High-Resource Efforts for Transformative Change: Instagram infographic activism has been paired with boots on the ground and action-oriented content, curating a connective-to-collective pipeline that expends movement resources. Our work unveils the vitality of evaluating digital activism action frames at the movement integration level, exemplifies the powerful coexistence of connective and collective action, and offers design implications for activists seeking to leverage this novel tool.
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Gerbaudo, Paolo. "From Cyber-Autonomism to Cyber-Populism: An Ideological Analysis of the Evolution of Digital Activism." tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society 15, no. 2 (May 29, 2017): 477–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v15i2.773.
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The analysis of digital activism has so far been dominated by a techno-determinist approach which interprets the logic of activism and its transformation as directly reflecting the properties of the technologies utilised by activists. This line of interpretatoin has been manifested in the popularity acquired by notions as “Twitter protest” or “revolution 2.0” in the news media and in academic discourse. Moving beyond this reductionist trend, this article proposes an ideological approach to the study of digital activism and its hisstorical transformation, which can better account for the combination of political, cultural and social factors involved in shaping it. I identity two main waves of digital activism, corresponding not only to two phases of technological development of the internet (the so-called web 1.0 and web 2.0), but also to two different protest waves, the anti-globalisation movement, and the movement of the squares that began in 2011, each with its own dominant ideology. I argue that reflecting the seismic shift in perceptions and attitudes produced by the 2008 crash, and the connected shifts in social movement ideology, digital activism has moved from the margins to the centre, from a countercultural posture to a counterhegemonic ambition. I describe this turn as a transition from cyber-autonomism to cyber-populism as the two defining techno-political orientations of the first and second wave of digital activism. Reflecting the influence of neo-anarchism and autonomism in the anti-globalisation movement cyber-autonomism saw the Internet as an autonomous space where to construct a countercultural politics outside the mainstream. To the contrary cyber-populism, informed by the populist turn taken by 2011 and post-2011 movements, sees the Internet as a “popular space”, which needs to be appropriated by ordinary citizens, turned away from consumption activities and towards the purpose of popular mobilisation against the neoliberal elites. This shift that substantially modifies the way in which activists conceives of and utilise digital media goes a long way towards explaining the differences in digital activism practices, and their contrasting views of the internet as a tool and site of struggle.
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Ekman, Mattias. "The dark side of online activism: Swedish right-wing extremist video activism on YouTube." MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 30, no. 56 (June 30, 2014): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v30i56.8967.
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<p>In recent years, an emerging body of work, centred on specific communicative forms used in facilitating collective and connective action, have contributed to greater understanding of how digital communication relates to social mobilisation. Plenty of these studies highlight the progressive potentiality of digital communication. However, undemocratic actors also utilise the rapid advancement in digital technology. This article explores the online video activism of extreme right-wing groups in Sweden. It analyses more than 200 clips on YouTube, produced by five right-wing extremist organisations. The study shows that the extreme right deploy video activism as a strategy of visibility to mobilise and strengthen activists. Moreover, the groups attempt to alter the perception of (historically-rooted) socio-political identities of the extreme right. Furthermore, YouTube becomes a political arena in which action repertoires and street politics are adapted to the specific characteristics of online video activism. Finally, video activism could be understood as an aestheticisation of politics.</p>
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Briukhanova, А. А. "DIGITAL ACTIVISM: FORMS AND THEORETICAL APPROACHES." Вестник Пермского университета. Политология 15, no. 4 (2021): 121–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.17072/2218-1067-2021-4-121-130.
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The article is devoted to the concept of digital activism, it reviews terms, forms and current theoretical approaches. The question of the place of digital activism in socio-political science remains open. Some researchers argue that digital activism has no lasting effect, so there is no need to create new theoretical approaches. Others advocate that digital activism has its distinct features therefore the development of a special theoretical approach is needed. Furthermore, there is an intermediate opinion that suggests updating existing models of social movement analysis to study digital activism. We conclude that the latter point of view is the most productive as it allows us to examine specific cases of digital activism and determine which components of digital activism distinguish it from social movements and which, on the contrary, bring it closer together. This approach may justify the formation of a theoretical basis for the study of digital activism. In addition, the article addresses the issue of consistency in the use of terms denoting digital activism and confusion in the study of various forms of digital activism. An analysis of publications in the Web of Science Core Collection database reveals that the term "digital activism" is the most preferred term for Internet activism.
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Hansson, Karin, Teresa Cerratto Pargman, and Shaowen Bardzell. "Materializing activism." Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 30, no. 5-6 (October 25, 2021): 617–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10606-021-09412-5.
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AbstractOnline activism showcases how available digital tools allow social movements to emerge, scale up, and extend globally by fundamentally enabling new forms of power. This special issue brings together eight research articles that engage with the collaborative efforts embedded in various types of activism by studying features such as the socio-technical systems involved; how the activism is organized; relations between traditional and social media; and the complex network of systems, information, people, values, theories, histories, ideologies, and aesthetics that constitutes such activisms. The articles show the spaces in which this activism materializes, and particularly their situation in several intersecting dimensions including motivation, culture, language, and infrastructure. Together, these articles reflect the methodological breadth required to materialize online activism and the need to develop a more nuanced conceptualization of the media ecologies involved. By mapping out how activism is enabled and constrained by human-computer interfaces, this special issue contributes to open up the black box of online activism.
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Wolbring, Gregor, Laiba Nasir, and Dana Mahr. "Academic Coverage of Online Activism of Disabled People: A Scoping Review." Societies 14, no. 11 (October 23, 2024): 215. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/soc14110215.
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Disabled people need to be activists given the many problematic lived realities they face. However, they frequently encounter obstacles in traditional offline activism. Online activism could be a potential alternative. The objective of this scoping review is to examine the extent and nature of the coverage of disabled people in the academic literature that focuses on online activism. We searched the abstracts in Scopus, Web of Science, and the 70 databases in EBSCO-HOST for the presence of 57 terms linked to online activism or online tools or places for online activism, which generated 18,069 abstracts for qualitative analysis. Of the 18,069 abstracts, only 54 discussed online the activism by disabled people. Among these 54 relevant abstracts, only one contained the term “Global South”. No relevant abstracts were found that contained the terms “Metaverse” or “Democrac*” together with “activis*”. Only two relevant abstracts contained the phrase “digital citizen*”. Out of the 57 terms, 28 had no hits. The thematic analysis identified 24 themes: 6 themes in 30 abstracts had a positive sentiment, 7 themes in 30 abstracts had a negative sentiment, and 11 themes present in 23 abstracts had a neutral sentiment. There were three main themes: the positive role and use of online activism; the technical accessibility barriers to online activism; and the attitudinal accessibility problems arising from ableist judgments. The intersectionality of the disability identity with other marginalized identities and the issue of empowerment were rarely addressed, and ability judgment-based concepts beyond the term’s “ableism” and “ableist” were not used. The study underscores the necessity for further research given the few relevant abstracts found. The study also indicates that actions are needed on barriers to online activism and that examples for best practices exist that could be applied more often. Future studies should also incorporate a broader range of ability judgment-based concepts to enrich the analysis and to support the empowerment of disabled activists.
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ÖZŞENLER, Didem. "Digital Activism: An Analysis of #challengeaccepted Hashtag Activism Developed for Violence against Women." WORLD WOMEN STUDIES JOURNAL 6, no. 1 (April 24, 2021): 35–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.46291/wwsj.v6i1.34.
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This study includes an analysis conducted in the context of “hashtag activism”, which is one of the digital activism forms. The research was performed on the #challengeaccepted hashtag activist movement that is conducted on Instagram and aims for raising awareness for violence against women. Posts shared by 51 local and foreign women for the #challengeaccepted hashtag activism were selected with the random sampling method. These sampling which is post shared by 51 local and foreign women was chosen by written #challengeaccepted hashtag activism developed for violence against women to the google research motor. The first two news links was chosen and the people who shared these hashtag was chosen and looked their personal instagram pages and added messages. Other hashtags, words, and mottos additional to the #challengeaccepted hashtag were categorized, interpreted, and inferences were made regarding the digital activism by reflecting the details of findings on the conclusion part. These posts that were grouped under specific themes were subjected to both descriptive and content analysis. These themes were created independent of each other and within the context of additional hashtags, date of the post, local-foreign women, support, courage, motivation, power, energy, leadership status. In this study, the concept of digital activism is scrutinized and tried to be analyzed through the social media campaign supported by celebrities in Turkey and around the world with the #challengeaccepted hashtag against violence against women within the concept of social responsibility.
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Kyomugisha T., Asiimwe. "Art as Activism: The Role of Visual Arts in Social Movements." Research Output Journal of Education 5, no. 1 (January 28, 2025): 1–4. https://doi.org/10.59298/roje/2025/511400.
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The relationship between visual arts and activism has shaped societal transformation across generations. Visual arts have historically been a powerful medium for dissent, mobilization, and solidarity in social movements, offering an emotional resonance that transcends verbal advocacy. This paper investigates the evolution of art as activism, from its historical roots to its role in modern social movements. Through case studies from Brazil, the United States, and other global contexts, the paper examines how artists and collectives use visual mediums to challenge power structures and inspire change. Theoretical frameworks highlight the tensions between commodification and authenticity in activist art, while future directions emphasize the potential of digital platforms to enhance global collaboration. The analysis underscores the enduring capacity of visual arts to amplify marginalized voices and foster societal progress, emphasizing their critical role in addressing contemporary challenges. Keywords: Art activism, social movements, visual culture, political art, historical perspectives, digital activism.
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Land, Nicole, and Narda Nelson. "Doing Twitter, Postdevelopmental Pedagogies, and Digital Activism." in education 28, no. 1b (December 21, 2022): 102–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.37119/ojs2022.v28i1b.650.
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In this article, we interrogate how we might manifest early childhood education’s Twitter purview as a space for thinking with postdevelopmental pedagogies. Accordingly, we pay attention to the ethics and politics that shape our Twitter practices, asking how these activate postdevelopmental provocations. In this sense, postdevelopmental pedagogies refer to processes and questions that interrupt the assumptions, objectivity, universalism, and technocratic instrumentalism of child development that so often pervade ECE practice, including much of the #earlychildhoodeducation content. Anchored in the two Twitter accounts that we coordinate, we outline four practices for doing Twitter with postdevelopmental provocations: counterpublics, counter-narratives, and counter-memory, collectivity, and digital feminist activism. We then work through two examples, showing how we draw these practices into our decision making as we craft tweets to activate postdevelopmental questions. We conclude by offering forward questions that educators, pedagogists, researchers, and activists might carry into their own Twitter practices. Keywords: early childhood education, Twitter, postdevelopmental pedagogies, digital activism
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Mummery, Jane, and Debbie Rodan. "Becoming activist: the mediation of consumers in Animals Australia’s Make it Possible campaign." Media International Australia 172, no. 1 (June 5, 2019): 48–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x19853077.
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In 2008, the Australian Law Reform Commission journal, Reform, called out animal welfare as Australia’s ‘next great social justice movement’ in 2018; however, public mobilisation around animal welfare is still a contested issue in Australia. The question stands as to how to mobilise everyday mainstream consumers into supporting animal activism given that animal activism is presented in the public sphere as dampening the economic livelihood of Australia, with some animal activism described as ‘akin to terrorism’. The questions, then, are as follows: how to mobilise everyday mainstream consumers into supporting animal activist ideals? How to frame and communicate animal activist ideals so that they can come to inform and change the behaviour and self-understandings of mainstream consumers? This article is an investigation into the possible production and mobilisation of animal activists from mainstream consumers through the work of one digital campaign, Make it Possible. Delivered by the peak Australian animal advocacy organisation, Animals Australia, and explicitly targeting the lived experiences and conditions of animals in factory farming, Make it Possible reached nearly 12 million viewers across Australia and has directly impacted on the reported behaviour and self-understandings of over 291,000 Australians to date, as well as impacting policy decisions made by government and industry. More specifically, our interest is to engage a new materialist lens to draw out how this campaign operates to transform consumers into veg*ns (vegans/vegetarians), activists and ethical consumers who materially commit to and live revised beliefs regarding human–animal relations.
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Karatzogianni, Athina, Galina Miazhevich, and Anastasia Denisova. "A Comparative Cyberconflict Analysis of Digital Activism Across Post-Soviet Countries." Comparative Sociology 16, no. 1 (February 13, 2017): 102–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341415.
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This article analyses digital activism comparatively in relation to three Post-Soviet regions: Russian/anti-Russian in Crimea and online political deliberation in Belarus, in juxtaposition to Estonia’s digital governance approach. The authors show that in civil societies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, cultural forms of digital activism, such as internet memes, thrive and produce and reproduce effective forms of political deliberation. In contrast to Estonia, in authoritarian regimes actual massive mobilization and protest is forbidden, or is severely punished with activists imprisoned, persecuted or murdered by the state. This is consistent with use of cultural forms of digital activism in countries where protest is illegal and political deliberation is restricted in government-controlled or oligarchic media. Humorous political commentary might be tolerated online to avoid mobilization and decompress dissent and resistance, yet remaining strictly within censorship and surveillance apparatuses. The authors’ research affirms the potential of internet memes in addressing apolitical crowds, infiltrating casual conversations and providing symbolic manifestation to resistant debates. Yet, the virtuality of the protest undermines its consistency and impact on offline political deliberation. Without knowing each other beyond social media, the participants are unlikely to form robust organisational structures and mobilise for activism offline.
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Putera, AB Sarca, Ayu Adriyani, Amin Akbar, and Muhammad Al Fikrah Firlian. "Digital Activism Practices of Pelita Padang Community in Voicing Diversity Issues Through Instagram @pelita.padang." Communicatus: Jurnal Ilmu komunikasi 8, no. 2 (December 22, 2024): 58–80. https://doi.org/10.15575/cjik.v8i2.40079.
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The Setara Institute for Democracy and Peace places Padang City on the list of 10 cities with the lowest tolerance levels from 2017 to 2023. This reflects that the city government's efforts to maintain diversity have not been optimal. Therefore, reflection is needed, one of which is through information technology to encourage the birth of digital activism. This study examines the social situation that triggers activism, especially in the digital space, and the optimization of digital platforms in supporting the movement. The study used a qualitative descriptive method through semi-structured interviews and document analysis. Data were analyzed from content uploaded by the Pelita Padang Community on Instagram @pelita.padang. The study results show that Indonesia's political and social dynamics mainly drive Pelita Padang's activism. This community effectively combines offline and online activities to expand the reach of its movement. Social media is used as a means of education, campaigning, and collaboration, strengthening their activism's impact. In conclusion, the combination of offline and digital activism by the Pelita Padang Community has responded to the challenges of intolerance in Padang City. This approach proves that optimizing social media can be a strategic tool to strengthen solidarity and diversity in society.
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Figeac, Julien, Nathalie Paton, Angelina Peralva, Arthur Coelho Bezerra, Guillaume Cabanac, Héloïse Prévost, Pierre Ratinaud, and Tristan Salord. "Digital participation of left-wing activists in Brazil: cultural events as a cement to mobilization and networked protest." Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies 10, no. 1 (October 2, 2021): 261–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.25160/bjbs.v10i1.125719.
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This research explores how Brazilian activist groups participate in Facebook to coordinate their social struggles, based on a lexical analysis of publications on 529 pages, published between 2013 and 2017. These groups set up two main repertoires of action by mobilizing Facebook as an arena for challenging political action and a tool for coordinating their mobilizations.
This research shows more specifically that artistic expression and the agenda of cultural events are central to these digital action repositories. Publications and conversations related to culture punctuate the ordinary exchange of information between activists, especially during the lulls of social struggles. They structure activist networks on a medium-term basis and contribute to the coordination of social movements by creating the conditions for occasional gatherings, transversal to different types of activism and to various social struggles.
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Chamarette, Jenny. "Backdating the Crip Technoscience Manifesto." Film Quarterly 76, no. 2 (2022): 16–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2022.76.2.16.
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This essay considers experimental filmmaker Stephen Dwoskin’s work as a lifelong process of technological activism and “knowing-making.” Using recent frameworks from Critical Disability Studies, Chamarette demonstrates how Dwoskin’s decades of activism parallel and in some cases pre-date the evolution of Disability Studies as it is currently situated. As an early adopter of digital and ‘cusp-of digital’ technologies (Hi-8 cameras, Mini-DV tapes, email, digital editing suites), Dwoskin’s creative work aligns with and backdates the “Crip Technoscience Manifesto” developed by Aimi Hamraie and Kelly Fritsch in 2019. Drawing on Dwoskin’s films and his archive, now housed at the University of Reading Special Collections (UK) Chamarette reframes Dwoskin’s late creative activity as tactics of technological adaptation, crip technoscience, and spheres of influence within digital and non-digital realms. These digital activisms ultimately give cause to reflect on the ambivalent, interdependent, friction-filled relationships between filmmaking, digitality and disability.
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Cermak-Sassenrath, Daniel. "On political activism in digital games." MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 34, no. 64 (June 14, 2018): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v34i64.96924.
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This project investigates how players of digital games apply their own play with the intent to transmit political messages to other players. Acts of activism are collected from a sample of commercial multiplayer online games; three taxonomies are proposed of which one is used to present the findings, and popular patterns or structures of activism are identified. It is found that in-game activism often takes its cue from activism in everyday life, but that some original topics emerge, for example, the ownership of virtual worlds and practices of in-game political activism such as novel forms of rallies. Current political activism often appears to utilize generic and widely-shared game mechanics, rather than mechanics specific to individual games or genres. Games are therefore selected for their topics, availability, and costs, and popularity with the target audience
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SUMMAK, Erhan. "Halkla İlişkilerde Tüketici Aktivizminin Rolü: Şirketler için Yeni Bir Paradigma." International Journal of Social Sciences 8, no. 36 (October 22, 2024): 187–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.52096/usbd.8.36.09.
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Consumer activism refers to consumers collectively acting to create change in companies, and this phenomenon has been further strengthened by the new communication tools and social media brought by the digital age. In the past, companies largely controlled trends and consumer preferences with traditional advertising and marketing strategies. However, consumers’ increasing awareness and organizational skills have changed these power dynamics. Now, consumers can make their voices heard through social media platforms and digital tools and become an effective force for social change. However, consumer activism can also create a potential public relations crisis for companies. The public’s demand for policy and practice changes in an organization can threaten the reputation and financial performance of companies. Therefore, managing consumer activism has become a fundamental element of public relations strategies. Companies should use public relations tools to protect their brand reputation and maintain consumer trust by developing proactive and reactive strategies. While proactive public relations emphasizes brand values and transparency before crises, reactive public relations offers fast and effective responses during crises. Integrating consumer activism into brand strategy can provide significant benefits by aligning a company’s core values with the concerns and expectations of its consumers. Social media is an effective tool for engaging with activist consumers. Using social media platforms, companies can listen to consumer feedback, engage in relevant online conversations, and address concerns. Additionally, measuring the impact of consumer activism on brand perception is also critical for companies. Using analytics tools, companies can track consumer feedback and interactions. This provides important data to improve future strategies and better respond to the demands of activist consumers. Consumer activism is driving organizations toward excellence by creating a more engaged and responsive approach to public relations. Key Words: Public Relations, Consumer, Activism, Brand, Paradigm.
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Scharff, Christina. "Creating Content for Instagram: Digital Feminist Activism and the Politics of Class." Astrolabio, no. 31 (July 28, 2023): 152–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.55441/1668.7515.n31.39411.
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This article explores some of the classed dynamics of doing digital feminist activism. Based on 30 qualitative in-depth interviews with feminist activists, who are based in Germany and the UK, the article examines the ways in which class background and class inequalities shape feminists’ experiences of being politically active on Instagram. Taking Instagram’s visual focus as a starting point for analysis, the article demonstrates the know-how and editorial skills required to produce visually appealing content. Access to this form of expertise is not equally available, however, and class background affects —though does not determine— who feels confident and at ease in producing visually engaging content. Shifting to a different set of knowledges, the second part of the article homes in on a widely shared sense amongst the activists that they had to know and say the “right” things when taking part in activism online. Self-education was deemed an important feature of doing digital feminist activism, and this article critically explores the classed, but also racialised politics of digital “learning cultures”, and the ways in which the apparent requirement “to know” may have exclusionary effects.