From virtual space to public space: The role of online political activism in protest participation during the Arab Spring

Kim, Harris Hyun-soo; Lim, Chaeyoon

doi:10.1177/0020715219894724

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“…Interactions among existing members occur within territories, and they communicate their resistive identity to others with territorialisation. While territorialisation in the physical environment is essential for communication, the Internet provides opportunities to mobilise more people and expand collective action (e.g., Bennett and Segerberg, 2012; Kim and Lim, 2020). This study reveals the contingent territorialisation in physical and virtual environments that communicates social movement activities.…”

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confidence: 99%

Territorial dynamics in organizing resistance: The assistants’ solidarity movement in two universities

Güneştepe

Tunçalp

2023

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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How do social movements develop and sustain their territoriality within large-scale organisations? This study explores the emergence of resistive movements in organisations counteracting a new administrative regime with a relational approach to territoriality in the physical and virtual environments. Drawing, maintaining, and changing boundaries in physical and virtual spaces are crucial in organisational resistance. However, the extant literature mostly overlooks these topics. This paper shows how collective actors form a resistive movement in organisations through territoriality with a qualitative study conducted in two Turkish Universities. The study findings show territoriality provides more than a space of isolation and this space has no fixed resistive boundaries. Territorialisation within and out of organisational spaces, covering physical and virtual environments, supports the development of a resistive identity. Our comparative analysis of two movements in universities shows that territoriality in the physical world is essential. However, territorialisation in the virtual environment helps resistive identities in organisations to last even their physical activities fade. Moreover, territorialisation in physical and virtual spaces communicating the movement’s message to mobilise others varies according to the different stages of the movement’s lifespan. In addition, this study indicates how the activities of social movements of organisational actors in physical and virtual environments interrelate.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Territorial dynamics in organizing resistance: The assistants’ solidarity movement in two universities

Güneştepe

Tunçalp

2023

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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“…Digital activism development cannot be separated from the digital revolution, where the progress of communication technology gave birth to social media in early 2010. Seen from a technology determinism perspective, the role of digital communication is fundamental in shaping the contours of current digital activism (Wolfson, 2014), such as the phenomenon of Arab Spring in early 2010, where virtual space is an enabler for a mass protest in trans-national public space of the Middle East and North African to demand the power transition from authoritarian to democratic (Kim & Lim, 2019;Mateos & Erro, 2020;Postill, 2014). The Arab Spring phenomenon primarily uses Facebook to organise the schedule of protests, Twitter to coordinate the locations of movements, and YouTube to show their actions to the world (Kim & Lim, 2019).…”

Section: Results and Discussion Activism And Digital Activism As Grassroots Movementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Youtube as alternative media for digital activism in documentary film creative industry

Rospitasari

2021

Indonesian Journal of Communications Studies

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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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“…Despite the fact that online activism is often condemned for its ineffectiveness (Barney, 2010;Gladwell, 2010;Morozov, 2011), a number of studies showed that social media can be an effective tool in mobilizing society into offline political actions, such as protests and even revolutions (Clarke & Kocak, 2020;Eaton, 2013;González-Bailón, Borge-Holthoefer, Rivero & Moreno, 2011;H. H.-s. Kim & Lim, 2019).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How the Internet has changed participation: Exploring distinctive preconditions of online activism

Kopacheva

2021

Communication & Society

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The continuously growing number of people participating in Internet-based, online, political activism suggests that the latter has the potential to replace offline forms of unconventional political participation in the future. If that is the case, it is essential to understand the nature and objectives of such type of participation. This article addresses the question of distinctive preconditions of online activism. As a result of the mixed-effect logistic regression analysis of the European Social Survey data, it was found that online activism contrasts with other unconventional types of political participation in respect to the effect of social trust. It is suggested that the key differences between the preconditions of online and offline forms of participation may speak in favour of several phenomena. First of all, it is proposed that social networking services (SNSs) managed to create an illusion of directness of political participation. Secondly, new groups of people with the lower risk preferences may be recruited into online political action. Lastly, groups that do not believe in the effectiveness of political participation or that have other motives, such as a search for attention, may be more likely to participate online. The results call for further research on how SNSs reshape how people understand political engagement and how they want to be involved.

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From virtual space to public space: The role of online political activism in protest participation during the Arab Spring

Cited by 14 publications

References 57 publications

Territorial dynamics in organizing resistance: The assistants’ solidarity movement in two universities

Territorial dynamics in organizing resistance: The assistants’ solidarity movement in two universities

Youtube as alternative media for digital activism in documentary film creative industry

How the Internet has changed participation: Exploring distinctive preconditions of online activism

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