Technology and Social Media

Earl, Jennifer

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“…In this section, we review emerging research on how social movements engage with new technologies and platforms. We find that social media platforms have become an increasingly routine part of the tool kit for contemporary social movements alongside broader public adoption of underlying technologies (Earl 2018). We highlight key findings based on four movements central to recent scholarship: the Arab Spring, OWS, BLM, and far-right movements.…”

Section: Contemporary Movements and Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 84%

“…In recent years, the growth of the internet and new forms of digital media have dramatically reshaped the media environment for social movements and raised new questions for scholars about this key relationship (Earl 2018, Rohlinger & Corrigall-Brown 2018. The early use of networked media by the Zapatista movement to build transnational support was an important harbinger.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Contemporary Social Movements in a Hybrid Media Environment

Caren

Andrews

2020

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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Media are central to the dynamics of protest and social movements. Contemporary social movements face a shifting environment composed of new media technologies and platforms that enable new identities, organizational forms, and practices. We review recent research focusing on the ways in which movements shape and are shaped by the media environment and the ways in which changes in the media environment have reshaped participation, mobilization, and impacts of activism. We conclude with the following recommendations for scholarship in this burgeoning area: move toward a broader conception of media in movements; expand engagement with scholarship in neighboring disciplines that study politics, media, and communication; develop new methodological and analytical skills for emerging forms of media; and investigate the ways in which media are enhancing, altering, or undermining the ability of movements to mobilize support, shape broader identities and attitudes, and secure new advantages from targets and authorities. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Sociology, Volume 46 is July 30, 2020. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

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Section: Contemporary Movements and Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 84%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Contemporary Social Movements in a Hybrid Media Environment

Caren

Andrews

2020

Annu. Rev. Sociol.

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“…Second, while prior literature neglects the digitally mediated collective action in the sphere of labour rights (Ferrari, 2016; Harlow, 2012; Kavada, 2015; Khazraee and Novak, 2018; Treré, 2015), we focus on a social movement made up of precarious female workers whose political action lies at the intersection of the labour and the feminist movements. As seen in our analysis, a highly disadvantaged working community, such as room attendants in Spain, has made use of the affordances of social media (Earl, 2019), particularly Facebook (Khazraee and Novak, 2018), to build a politicised collective identity and mobilise against labour precarisation and social devaluation. In so doing, room attendants have managed to short-circuit the precariat’s ‘precarious subjectivity’ (López Calle, 2019) which typically hinders collective action.…”

Section: Discussion and Conclusion: Collective Identities Social Move...mentioning

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“…In this regard, prior research notes that the 'precarious subjectivity' of this type of workers hinders collective action (López Calle, 2019). On the other hand, numerous studies show how ICTs help disadvantaged groups engage in protest due to the radical reduction of participation and coordination costs (see Earl, 2019). Linking these two arguments, we examine the process by which room attendants in Spain, a highly precarious, feminised working community, have forged a politicised collective identity on social media and subsequently mobilised against labour precarisation and social devaluation.…”

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“…Over the past two decades, social movement scholars have been discussing the impact of digital communication technologies on the formation and mobilisation of collective identity, feeding into a number of controversies that remain to a large extent unfinished (Earl, 2019; Flesher Fominaya, 2019; Priante et al, 2018). In this article, we draw upon the contention over collective versus connective action, which revolves around the currency of collective identity in digitally mediated political action and other important aspects such as organisation, leadership and issue framing.…”

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‘Las Kellys son las que limpian’: Collective identity and social media in the mobilisation of room attendants in Spain

Alcalde‐González¹,

Mozo

Valenzuela‐Bustos

2022

New Media & Society

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In this qualitative study, we focus on Las Kellys, a Spanish movement of room attendants who have mobilised against labour precarisation and social devaluation, to address two challenges: (1) to characterise the role of social media in the construction and politicisation of collective identity as a stepping stone to mobilisation, and (2) to describe the lines of interplay between online politicisation of collective identity and other mobilisation factors such as grievances, social embeddedness and efficacy. Findings suggest that (1) room attendants build a politicised collective identity on Facebook, which functions as both an online community of coping and a locus of politicisation and micro-mobilisation, and (2) online politicisation of collective identity happens in online/offline interplay with the process of consensus mobilisation around the room attendants’ issues (grievances), the social capital accumulated within intragroup and intergroup networks (social embeddedness) and the expectation of changing conditions and/or policies through protest (efficacy).

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Content Analysis in the Research Field of Social Movements Communication

García-Albacete

2022

Standardisierte Inhaltsanalyse in Der Kommunikationswissenschaft – Standardized Content Analysis in Communication Research

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This chapter provides a brief overview of the use of content analysis in a selection of studies on social movement communication. In doing so it provides examples of representative studies along four categories: 1) studies aimed at answering traditional questions in the area of social movements research; 2) research answering traditional questions in the area of communication studies; 3) research examining the use and effects of “new” tools and technology; and finally, 4) studies discussing methodological opportunities and challenges posed by digital media. The chapter then identifies the main trends in methodology in this area and concludes by discussing the many strengths, and some areas for improvement within the field.

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Technology and Social Media

Cited by 58 publications

References 75 publications

Contemporary Social Movements in a Hybrid Media Environment

Contemporary Social Movements in a Hybrid Media Environment

‘Las Kellys son las que limpian’: Collective identity and social media in the mobilisation of room attendants in Spain

Content Analysis in the Research Field of Social Movements Communication

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