Twitter Revolutions? Addressing Social Media and Dissent

Christensen, Christian

doi:10.1080/10714421.2011.597235

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“…The use of social media by social movements is also beginning to be addressed (e.g., Caren & Gaby, 2011;Christensen, 2011;Guo & Saxton, 2013;Harlow, 2012;Lovejoy & Saxton, 2012;Skinner, 2011); however much of the research in this area focuses on movements that have received considerable attention from the mainstream media-most notably the Arab Spring and Occupy. Consequently, little is known about the use of social media by advocacy organizations that are not directly involved in these high-profile campaigns.…”

Section: Advocacy Groupsmentioning

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Canadian Advocacy 2.0: An Analysis of Social Media Adoption and Perceived Affordances by Advocacy Groups Looking to Advance Activism in Canada

Obar

2014

Canadian Journal of Communication

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Section: Advocacy Groupsmentioning

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Canadian Advocacy 2.0: An Analysis of Social Media Adoption and Perceived Affordances by Advocacy Groups Looking to Advance Activism in Canada

Obar

2014

Canadian Journal of Communication

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“…For example, in the aftermath of 'Arab Spring' protests in Iran and Syria, government security forces reportedly used Twitter to identify and prosecute protesters, and participants in the London riots of August 2011 used Twitter to help orchestrate widespread looting and violence, activities that did not quite lend themselves to the site's celebratory promotional rhetoric (Christensen, 2011). In this way, regulatory forces in Web 2.0 as a space of networked publics are mitigated by bottom-up communication practices that are not necessarily intrinsically positive.…”

Section: Conclusion: Moral Conflicts and Private Regulation On Twittermentioning

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Doing well by doing good? Normative tensions underlying Twitter’s corporate social responsibility ethos

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Shepherd

2014

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This paper examines the rhetoric of Twitter.com in order to gain insight into the company's normative selfunderstanding, or ethos. From a business ethics perspective, we analyze Twitter's ethos in relation to debates around democratic communication and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Partly thanks to its CSR strategy, Twitter has acquired the critical mass of users necessary to successfully establish a robust and financially viable social network. Despite its success, however, we argue that Twitter does not sufficiently address three ethical implications of its strategy: (1) from an ethical perspective, Twitter mainly seems to employ an 'instrumental CSR' ethos which fails to properly recognize the moral rights, responsibilities, and strategic challenges of corporate actors with regards to their stakeholders; (2) this issue becomes all the more pressing because online social networks to a certain extent have taken on the role of quasi-governmental bodies today, regulating what their users can and cannot do, thus raising questions of accountability and legitimacy; and (3) in Twitter's case, this leads to normative tension between the site's rhetoric, which is centered around civic motives, and the way its Terms of Service and licensing policies seem to favor its commercial stakeholders over its non-commercial ones.

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“…Die Kürze der Tweets und die daraus resultierende Schnelligkeit des Mediums charakterisieren Twitter eher als Informationsverteilungs-, denn als Diskussionsplattform. Dies zeigen auch die aktuellen Studien zur Frage des Einflusses von Twitter im Kontext des "Arabischen Frühlings" (Christensen 2011).…”

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