Protest in an Information Society: a review of literature on social movements and new ICTs

Garrett, R. Kelly

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“…Second, it has been discussed in reference to the formation of participant commitment to collective action (see Garrett, 2006;Juris, 2012;Valenzula, 2013). This article speaks to both interests by assaying the scope for the cooperative rather than organizationally orchestrated development of requisite motivations and resources for collective action through networked communication.…”

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The Social Media Overture of the Pan-European Stop-ACTA Protest: An Empirical Examination of Participatory Coordination in Connective Action

Mercea

2014

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Citation: Mercea, D. and Funk, A. (2014). The social media overture of the pan-European Stop-ACTA protest: An empirical examination of participatory coordination in connective action. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, doi: 10.1177/1354856514563663 This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. In the current political climate marked by deep economic transformation, social upheaval is fast becoming a preferred avenue for voicing anger and opposition to austerity and the retrenchment of the welfare state (Castells, 2012). Recent instalments of street protests that have swept the European Union from Greece to France and Spain, Bulgaria to the UK have signalled a deep preoccupation of the European citizenry with social justice whilst also underscoring the centrality of horizontal digital media in sparking and fanning protest. Not least, protest has been directed at preserving the existing scope of digital media for unencumbered information and communication, as witnessed in the cross-national mobilisation against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (henceforth ACTA). With this article, we seek to investigate an ostensible process of participatory coordination with Facebook and Twitter, which were both used in the pan-European protests against ACTA. Permanent repository linkThe aim of this study is to conceptualize and evaluate the scope for two modes of coordination it identifies -motivational and resource coordination -by way of a mixedmethod study of data retrieved in the run-up to the last Europe-wide anti-ACTA demonstrations of 9 June 2012.Coordination with social media tools has been principally considered in relation to the accomplishment of collective activities (Bennett and Segerberg, 2012: 749;Bennett et al., 2014). Second, it has been discussed in reference to the formation of participant commitment to collective action (see Garrett, 2006;Juris, 2012; Valenzula, 2013). This article speaks to both interests by assaying the scope for the cooperative rather than organizationally orchestrated development of requisite motivations and resources for collective action through networked communication. Consequently, we set out to delineate and empirically verify the notion of participatory coordination. Below, we begin this work with a brief overview of the Stop ACTA movement followed by a review of the sources informing the research aim and hyponym objectives outlined at the end of the same section. (Bruns and Burgess, 2012;. Both platforms may be viewed as social infrastructures enabling, inter alia, the public display of highly individualized and personalized exchanges (Langlois et al., 2009;Poell, 2014 (2009: 417-19). At the same time, the two services leave distinct imprints on the public communication to which they are applied (Poell, 2014: 719). Twitter hashtags -key words or abbreviations preceded by the hash sign (#) -provide one pertinent illustration of these assertions. Hashtags...

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“…A análise dos dados da pesquisa sinaliza também que, de modo geral, as TIC são utilizadas por esses coletivos e seus integrantes como meio facilitador para a mobilização 9 de recursos fundamentais às ações: materiais (financeiros e infraestrutura), semelhante à lógica da Teoria de Mobilização de Recursos (ALONSO, 2009); capital social, entendido aqui como a somatória dos recursos provenientes de interações realizadas nas redes sociais (QUAN-HAASE; WELLMAN, 2004), carregadas de valores, num esforço de sociabilidade (BOURDIEU, 1985); e poder, analisado no contexto da ação comunicativa em rede (CASTELLS, 2015). Essa lógica de mobilização de recursos vai ao encontro do que Garrett (2006) apontou como as três principais estruturas dentro dos movimentos sociais: mobilização (mecanismos que permitem a organização, como as TIC); socialização (ciclos de amizade e redes de ativismo, como o Facebook); e oportunidades (condições favoráveis para a atuação, como a atual crise da democracia ocidental). Além disso, esses recursos são mobilizados dentro de uma lógica de influenciar processos de tomada de decisão (RENN, 1992), sobretudo na 8 Rede que acompanha de perto as decisões tomadas na cidade de São Paulo com foco no alerta e na mobilização de paulistanos por meio da divulgação de informações e elaboração de ferramentas para pressionar os poderes em decisões que afetam a cidade.…”

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O papel das tecnologias de comunicação e informação (TIC) no urbano do século XXI e na emergência dos novos movimentos sociais:

Giaretta

Giulio

2017

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“…This can only be achieved by bringing government closer to the public and by increasing participation (Garrett, 2006). Through the use of ICTs, the information society provides the opportunity for citizens to get engaged in deliberative civic discourse which is essentially important for developing public support for both policy decisions and implementation (O'Toole, 1997b).…”

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The Role of the Information Society in Promoting a Better and a More Democratic Governance

Moghrabi

Sabharwal

2017

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One of the major shifts that our society has witnessed in the past few decades is the paradigm shift from traditional bureaucracies to network arrangements in policy making and service delivery. This paper explores the New Governance as a paradigm shift in Public Administration with an emphasis on the democratic aspect of it. Approaching the New Governance from an Open Systems Theory perspective, this paper argues that the advent and the widespread use of ICTs and the -infosphere‖ -and the -information society‖ that has emerged from it -would help in promoting a better and a more democratic governance by providing new channels to put democracy into practice. This paper also acknowledges the dark side of the -infosphere‖ and the ethical challenges that have come along with it.

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Protest in an Information Society: a review of literature on social movements and new ICTs

Cited by 531 publications

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The Social Media Overture of the Pan-European Stop-ACTA Protest: An Empirical Examination of Participatory Coordination in Connective Action

The Social Media Overture of the Pan-European Stop-ACTA Protest: An Empirical Examination of Participatory Coordination in Connective Action

O papel das tecnologias de comunicação e informação (TIC) no urbano do século XXI e na emergência dos novos movimentos sociais:

The Role of the Information Society in Promoting a Better and a More Democratic Governance

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