Social Media for Empowerment in Social Movements: The Case of Malaysia's Grassroots Activism

Tye, Michelle; Leong, Carmen; Tan, Felix Ter Chian; Tan, Barney; Khoo, Ying Hooi

doi:10.17705/1cais.04215

Cited by 29 publications

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“…Taking this further, it was claimed that more and more social movements have become successful because of social media. Examples of such social media enabled movements are the Arab Spring [43], Occupy Wall Street in the US [22,24], Los Indignados in Spain [54], and the #YoSoy132 movement in Mexico [18]. Although these protests were founded offline, they are no longer only fought in the streets but also online.…”

Section: Social Movements In Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Development of Connective Action during Social Movements on Social Media

Mirbabaie

Brünker

Wischnewski

et al. 2021

Trans. Soc. Comput.

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In recent years, the development of information communication technologies, such as social media, has changed the way people communicate and engage in social movements. While conventional movements were fought in the streets, social media has enabled movements to take place online. In this article, we aim to investigate the role of social media during social movements that evolve online under the scope of the theory of connective action. Specifically, we examined Twitter communication during the #metoo debate. To this end, we examined two datasets (2017 and 2019) and combined methods from social media analytics to identify influential users, with a manual content analysis to classify influential users into roles. Likewise, a manual classification found distinct communication categories. Through regression analysis, we were able to gage the individual contribution of these categories and roles based on the retweet probability. This study introduces for the first time the terms of connective action starters and maintainers.

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Section: Social Movements In Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Development of Connective Action during Social Movements on Social Media

Mirbabaie

Brünker

Wischnewski

et al. 2021

Trans. Soc. Comput.

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“…[15] presents a comprehensive review of recent studies that employed Facebook as a tool for teaching and learning in institutions of higher education. [16] present a SM enabled social movement the 'Electoral Reform' in Malaysia and significant role of SM in empowering citizens towards change in their community. [17] present findings from interviews with 26 small NPOs' SM professionals on how they use multiple SM sites to support public engagement.…”

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confidence: 99%

Facebook an Anti-Stereotyping Tool: A Case Study

Khan¹

2021

J. Infor. Electr. Electron. Eng.

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Facebook, the most popular social media (SM) platform has penetrated every nook and corner of the world. SM is now treated as the ‘fifth Estate’, other than legislative, executive, judiciary, and mainstream media. The power of SM as a critique is widely acknowledged. Establishments are finding it difficult to deal with it at times. Due to its ease of usage and relative anonymity, the general public finds it very convenient to put across their viewpoints, even if it’s against the establishment. Some establishments at times are at loggerheads with champions of freedom of speech including civil rights activists. SM has been used for propaganda, marketing, and awareness campaigns. In this paper, we are proposing to use this powerful tool towards social change. Through a case study, a detailed process is being proposed for using social media particularly Facebook as an an-ti-stereotyping tool. The response to an online survey, the outcome of opinion min-ing, and the enthusiastic response to our case study by the targeted audience validate our hypothesis that Facebook can be effectively utilized as an anti-stereotyping tool.

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“…Taken this further, it was claimed that more and more social movements became successful because of social media. Examples of such social media enabled movements are the Arab Spring [28], Occupy Wall Street in the US [15,17], Los Indignados in Spain [37] and the #YoSoy132 movement in Mexico [11]. Although these protests were founded offline, they were no longer only fought in the streets but also online.…”

Section: Related Work/status Quo 21 Social Movements In Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Social Media during Social Movements – Observations from the #metoo Debate on Twitter

Brünker¹,

Wischnewski²,

Mirbabaie³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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In recent years, the development of information communication technologies (ICT) such as social media changed the way people communicate and engage in social movements. While conventional movements were fought in the streets, social media enabled movements to take place online. In this paper, we aim to investigate the role of social media during social movements which evolve online. Specifically, we examined Twitter communication during the #metoo debate. To this end, we applied methods from social network analysis to identify influential users participating during the debate. Conducting a manual content analysis, we classified 200 power users into roles. Likewise, a manual classification of 1,271 tweets found distinct communication categories. The results overall point to different motives: First, the communication was deeply concerned with the issue of sexual harassment, calling for attention and action. Second, we found reason to believe that self-serving and branding intentions drove participation.

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Social Media for Empowerment in Social Movements: The Case of Malaysia's Grassroots Activism

Cited by 29 publications

References 62 publications

The Development of Connective Action during Social Movements on Social Media

The Development of Connective Action during Social Movements on Social Media

Facebook an Anti-Stereotyping Tool: A Case Study

The Role of Social Media during Social Movements – Observations from the #metoo Debate on Twitter

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