Social media and social movements: Facebook and an online Guatemalan justice movement that moved offline

Harlow, Summer

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“…Existing observations of, for example, Facebook usage to express support for collective action or to rally up participants in it are arguably heralds of the phenomenon (Harlow, 2012). Building on that analysis, this article proposed that an instrumental and resource-driven mode of coordination may be at play in connective action on both Facebook and Twitter.…”

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“…These modalities for assembling networked publics (Langlois et al, 2009) have proved especially valuable for political activism on multiple levels. In an illustrative case study (Harlow, 2012: 236) it was shown how Guatemalan protestors turned to Facebook pages in a descending order to call others to action, to share what they deemed as pertinent information, to voice their opinions or to reference their past and future protest participation. Similarly, Twitter has been the object of activist repurposing to express solidarity with on-going street protests (Papacharissi and de Fatima Oliveira, 2012: 275).…”

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“…its ability to trigger a public reaction (Bruns and Burgess, 2012: 807;Harlow, 2012). Next, by means of the date variable we performed an additional verification of the relationship between the moment a message is posted and its content.…”

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“…In our case, we used language as a variable controlling for any possible coordinational patterns attached to a language community. Finally, we relied on evidence pertaining to a ranking of Facebook postees as high, medium and low-frequency postees (Harlow, 2012) to ascertain whether the volume of postings may account for any coordinational patterns on both Facebook and Twitter. Previous indications point to low-frequency postees often expressing support and encouragement for their collective action with high-frequency postees more often attempting to mobilize their peers into action (Harlow, 2012: 236).…”

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“…its ability to trigger a public reaction (Bruns and Burgess, 2012: 807;Harlow, 2012). were the most used languages, Icelandic, Finnish and Romanian being the least occurring ones (less than 1 percent of posts).…”

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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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Social Media Use and Social Movements and Protests

Lee

2020

The International Encyclopedia of Media Psychology

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The rapid emergence of digital media technologies, especially social media, has raised questions about their role in social movements. Despite some early skepticism about social media's mobilizing potential in social movements, numerous studies suggest that social media played an integral role in sparking the growth and spread of recent social movements. More specifically, social media provide a sphere for the public to obtain political news, discuss current affairs and injustices, join political and social causes, obtain mobilizing information, and form a collective identity.

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Earl¹

2018

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements

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Social media and social movements: Facebook and an online Guatemalan justice movement that moved offline

Cited by 316 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

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