Social Media Use and Social Movements and Protests

Lee, Sang‐Won

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“…Social media has played an important role by providing a public space for the exchange of political news as well as discussions of current situations and social injustice. It also enables a collection of information and generates a collective identity (Lee, 2020).…”

Section: Social Movement and Online Social Mediamentioning

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Twitter and the protest movement in Thailand: A thematic analysis of highly retweeted tweets during the pro-democracy protests

Charoenthansakul,

Natee

2023

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In 2021, there were over 1,516 street protests across Thailand, with government forces deployed to disperse protests over 60 times nationwide. Twitter, like the physical protest sites, became an extremely active platform. This paper aims to understand key content with the highest number of retweets during the call for democracy in Thailand in 2021, specifically under the hashtags #28FebMob, #18JulMob, and #7AugMob, through thematic analysis. The findings indicate five key themes conveyed through tweets, namely information dissemination, grievance expression, moral support, mobilization, and calls for action. The study also shows that most of the content conveyed frustration against state power and was highly subjective rather than stating protest objectives or calling for more forces. The characteristics of the tweets were also related to ongoing circumstances of the actual protests at the time, which differed widely depending on the specific event.

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Section: Social Movement and Online Social Mediamentioning

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Twitter and the protest movement in Thailand: A thematic analysis of highly retweeted tweets during the pro-democracy protests

Charoenthansakul,

Natee

2023

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“…Through social media, users can also create and join groups and webpages based on common interests (Eltantawy & Wiest, 2011; Jost et al, 2018; Valenzuela, 2013). People can not only exchange protest-related information on these groups (Harlow & Johnson, 2011; Lee, 2018) but also highlight norms for participation as well as encourage and persuade others to participate, which serves as a driving force for protest participation (Eltantawy &Wiest, 2011; for more details about the mechanisms driving protest participation, see Lee, 2020).…”

Section: Conditions For Polarization Before Januarymentioning

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The banality of extremism: The role of group dynamics and communication of norms in polarization on January 6.

Swol¹,

Lee²,

Hutchins³

2022

Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice

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Many of the individuals charged in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol did not have ties to far-right extremist groups, leading some pundits and researchers to speculate that extremism has become mainstream and much more common in the current political environment. In this article, we discuss events before and during January 6 that affected extremism and pushed people toward polarization. Specifically, we discuss the role of the media, especially social media, in developing like-minded content sharing and polarizing, extremist group norms. The role of groups to drive people toward protest is discussed within research on social movements. The role of identity and acceptability of prejudice toward outgroup political members and how this identity fed into increasing extremist rhetoric are also discussed. Then, we discuss conditions of the day of January 6, including establishment of norms through rhetoric and the social proof of extremist action, and also, the easy exit of those who could leave an increasingly escalating situation. Finally, we address the implications for the current political climate, including the potential for increased violence and extremism. Highlights and Implications• This article seeks to answer the question: What drove people normally not associated with far-right extremists to take part in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol?• This article highlights the role of social media in creating homogeneous networks, where ideologically like-minded individuals shared emotions, concerns, and grievances.• The role of identity and affective polarization in driving outgroup animosity and affectively polarizing rhetoric is discussed.• Events during January 6 that contributed to violence include polarizing rhetoric, easy exit for dissenters, escalating social proof, and development of more extreme norms.• Implications of increasing political violence are discussed, as the events of January 6 have further polarized the public in the United States.

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“…Numerosos estudios recientes sugieren que las redes sociales desempeñaron un papel fundamental en impulsar el crecimiento y la propagación de los movimientos sociales como el de BLM (Nummi et al, 2019). Porque las redes sociales brindan un espacio para que la difusión rápida de noticias políticas, para discutir cuestiones de actualidad, para dar forma a identidades colectivas, y, por supuesto, para movilizar a la ciudadanía contra injusticias sociales (Lee, 2020). Así es cómo BLM ha utilizado las redes sociales en las movilizaciones de 2020 (Bonilla y Tillery, 2020).…”

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Los contextos del linchamiento de George Floyd y los aceleradores de las protestas contra el racismo sistémico

Rodríguez

2021

Inguruak

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<p>Tras la muerte de George Floyd el 15 de mayo de 2020 se produjeron en Estados Unidos las mayores manifestaciones (por su número, duración, extensión y participación) de su historia moderna. El artículo examina el mecanismo social (la “Violencia (policial) sistémica contra los afroamericanos”) que llevó al linchamiento de Floyd y el que condujo a ese tsunami de protestas (“Persistencia en la resistencia”), los otros “episodios” que actuaron como aceleradores o reactivadores de las protestas (cuatro “momentos” de Donald Trump, la violencia y militarización de la respuesta policial, otras muertes de afroamericanos a manos de la policía, y la exoneración de los policías que mataron a Breonna Taylor) y los contextos de distinta “duración” que son relevantes para comprender aquellos hechos: desde el estructural “racismo sistémico”, uno de cuyos mecanismos de control racial es la “violencia (policial) sistémica contra los afroamericanos”, hasta otros contextos “coyunturales” como la pandemia de la covid19, las desigualdades sociales agudizadas por la pandemia, la radicalización y crispación de los discursos políticos y sociales en el marco de la campaña electoral de noviembre de 2020, y la existencia de un movimiento como Black Lives Matter y su uso de las redes sociales como cauces de movilización. Muestra también la interrelación entre contextos y mecanismos sociales y como si el primer mecanismo está incardinado con el “racismo sistémico”, el segundo se alimenta de la radicalización de los discursos y del movimiento Black Lives Matter.</p>

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Social Media Use and Social Movements and Protests

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

Twitter and the protest movement in Thailand: A thematic analysis of highly retweeted tweets during the pro-democracy protests

Twitter and the protest movement in Thailand: A thematic analysis of highly retweeted tweets during the pro-democracy protests

The banality of extremism: The role of group dynamics and communication of norms in polarization on January 6.

Los contextos del linchamiento de George Floyd y los aceleradores de las protestas contra el racismo sistémico

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