Diffusion Processes Within and Across Movements

Soule, Sarah A.; Roggeband, Conny

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“…Campaign pages such as MSF effectively turn photo sharing and photobiography into a modular performance: "generic forms that can be adapted to a variety of local and social circumstances" (Tilly & Tarrow, 2007, p. 13) and contribute to the tactical diffusion of movements (Soule, 2004).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some digital performances on social media, such as photo sharing on Facebook, can be considered modular performances adopted into other contexts as a form of protest. Their high potential for virality allows for inspirations and ideas to diffuse more rapidly through social media, contributing to the tactical diffusion of the movement beyond its context (Soule, 2004).…”

Section: Digital Performances and Photobiographymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Digitally Mediated Protest: Social Media Affordances for Collective Identity Construction

Khazraee

Novak

2018

Social Media + Society

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Many scholars discuss the role of social media in the context of social movements, but there remain major disagreements regarding the precise role that social media plays. One area that deserves more in-depth study is the affordances of social media for constructing collective identity. This article examines the case of an Iranian women's rights campaign page on Facebook, "My Stealthy Freedom," using an analysis of textual and visual content. The article examines how online campaign pages on Facebook contribute to the formation of collective identity and the construction of a campaign narrative. Following the analysis, the authors discuss how photobiographic campaigns-social media users sharing personal photos and adjoining personal narratives in support of a cause-illustrate two affordances of social media for construction of collective identity: affordances for discourse and affordances for performance. Affordances for discourse contribute to the collective action framing process through sharing of grievances and collectively negotiating meaning. These affordances also contribute to a collectively and incrementally constructed narrative by sharing personal stories that resonate with the group. Affordances for performance focus on the enactment of protest through transgressive photobiographies deliberately staged to convey the movement message to broader audiences. Here, transgressive photobiographies are defined as modular performances that can be adopted for the repertoires of contentious politics through protesting of laws and norms, such as the mandatory hijab. These transgressive performances create group solidarity through engagement in risk, thereby contributing to the formation of group identities.

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Section: Discussion and Reflectionmentioning

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Section: Digital Performances and Photobiographymentioning

confidence: 99%

Digitally Mediated Protest: Social Media Affordances for Collective Identity Construction

Khazraee

Novak

2018

Social Media + Society

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“…As Boschma (2005) also suggests, spatial or geographical proximity may not be a necessary or sufficient condition for social movement diffusion within or across national borders. In fact, Soule (2004) highlighted the importance of cultural proximity, or 'framing', as the process through which the movement's identity is shaped via the social construction and attribution of similarity when social networks and social ties are absent. Transnational movements create collective identities through 'framing' in both relational (i.e., through personal contact) and non-relational (i.e., through channels of information diffusion and online media) forms of connection.…”

Section: Diffusionmentioning

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Transition in place: Dynamics, possibilities, and constraints

Nicolosi

Feola

2016

Geoforum

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The Transition Movement is a translocal phenomenon circulated through transnational grassroots networks. This study explores the geographies of the Transition Movement with a theoretical framework that perceives it as both a social movement and a grassroots innovation. Participant-observation of Transition Salt Lake (TSL), located in the suburban metropolis of Salt Lake City, Utah, was conducted, as the United States remains a largely understudied country in regards to this particular movement. In this pursuit, we asked: (i) how and what this transition initiative draws from geographically extensive and intensive relations, (ii) how it combines place-specific elements and generalized models (embeddedness), and (iii) how this impacts the success of the transition initiative and how these impacts (positive or negative) are generated. Place, space, and scale played a large role in defining the nature, dynamics, possibilities, and constraints of this transition initiative. Specifically, geographically intensive and extensive relations were critical for the mobilization of complementary resources. The Transition model was found to be flexible, allowing for the initiative to adopt those elements that worked in place and to focus on locally relevant topics. TSL faced many challenges identified by previous researchers regarding finances, participation, diversity, and intragroup competition. While networking with other similar groups, TSL demonstrated that fertile environments of activism are incubatory pools for grassroots innovations and social movements, and a trade-off was found with competition between local groups for resources.

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“…Finally, researchers have shown that a specific sequence of steps is followed in the dif fusion process, indicating that certain regularities in the dynamics of diffusion do exist (on the hypothesis of cycle of protest, see Tarrow, 1998; spinoff and spillover move ments are discussed by McAdam, 1995). 1 More recently, some authors (Chabot, 2000;Chabot and Duyvendak, 2002;Soule, 2006;della Porta et al, 2009) have underlined the lack of attention paid to agency in this type of analytical approach. The search for regularities and general rules presents a much more mechanical portrait of diffusion than is actually the case.…”

Section: Beyond Diffusion Geographical Appropriationmentioning

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Why Local Social Forums Emerge Where They do: Beyond Diffusion, Geographical Appropriation

Dufour

2016

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Social forums are, quintessentially, a transnationally mobile institutional enterprise. Since the first World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2001, thousands of local initiatives have emerged all over the world. Yet we know very little about the diffusion processes involved. This article examines nine local social forums (LSFs) in two societies (France and Québec) in order to understand how social forums (SFs) spread throughout or within each territory. Aside from the usual factors, such as the presence or absence of an initiator, favorable political opportunity structure and access to resources, I consider the geography of appropriation, with an emphasis on the dimensions of place (where the forums are organized), and scales of action built by activists. First, I show that, as proposed in the social movement literature, SFs spread from the global South to the global North as a direct result of activists willing to reproduce within their localities that which they have seen and experienced on a larger scale. Political opportunity structures and access to resources appear relevant to understanding the longevity of LSFs and their capacity to be more or less encompassing experiences. But beyond these ‘usual suspects’, the geographical appropriation of social forums is an important consideration that helps us understand the specific diffusion of LSFs in each national territory. In Québec, the region is perceived as a ‘given’ by activists and becomes the relevant scale of collective action, while in France, scale building is at stake and LSFs are used as a tool to escape the centralization of the main national organization in the field of global protest.

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Diffusion Processes Within and Across Movements

Cited by 38 publications

References 70 publications

Digitally Mediated Protest: Social Media Affordances for Collective Identity Construction

Digitally Mediated Protest: Social Media Affordances for Collective Identity Construction

Transition in place: Dynamics, possibilities, and constraints

Why Local Social Forums Emerge Where They do: Beyond Diffusion, Geographical Appropriation

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