Uniting Political Bloggers in Diversity: Collective Identity and Web Activism

Soon, Carol; Kluver, Randolph

doi:10.1111/jcc4.12079

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“…Social trust is built on the belief that ingroup members are more honest and trustworthy than members of outgroups (Levin, Whitener, & Cross, 2006). It has been found that social trust unites diverse participants in social movements under a collective identity of protestors (Diani 2000;Jones, 2011;Soon & Kluver, 2014). Social identification becomes even stronger when it is combined with relevant experience of the specific target (Walther et al, 2011), which is why people may tend to trust friends who have had the experience of being a protestor in the context of social movements most.…”

Section: Social Identification and Technological Affordancesmentioning

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Social Media and Trust during the Gezi Protests in Turkey

Haciyakupoglu

Zhang

2015

J Comput-Mediat Comm

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Section: Social Identification and Technological Affordancesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social Media and Trust during the Gezi Protests in Turkey

Haciyakupoglu

Zhang

2015

J Comput-Mediat Comm

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“…Those studies have generated different types of research regarding the democratic possibilities of Internet GOMES [44], SILVA [45], of how the digital interactions are constituted as proxies of the level of political participation and engagement LÉVY [46], CASTELLS [37], MAIA [47], EGLER [48], PENTEADO, Open Access Library Journal SANTOS and ARAUJO [49], EISENBERG [50], as well as collective identities formation MAIA and CASTRO [51], MITRA [52], Acklanda and O'Neila [53], LAMB e POSTER [54], SOON and KLUVER [55].…”

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Internet, Political Socialization, and Youth’s Political Culture in the South of Brazil

Baquero¹

2017

OALib

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From a conventional theoretical perspective on political science, technological media is considered a powerful inductor of young citizen's attitudes and behavior. The Internet is generating an environment where new forms of social interaction between politics and society take place. These tools were widely used by Brazilian youth in protests against the government in July 2013. Could this be the beginning of a new process of political socialization? I believe that this new media technology is structuring new collective identities and some forms of political sophistication among the youth. I hypothesize that this type of political involvement, taking into account the type of youth's political culture, does not contribute for the construction of a new sense of citizenship among the young citizens. The main objective of this paper is to evaluate the effect of the use of Internet in the political socialization process of the youth (13 to 24 years old) in the South of Brazil. The data utilized is the result of a survey research conducted from March 2015 to April 2016 with 1964 adolescents in public and private high schools selected through multistage probabilistic sampling. The questionnaire consisted of 70% of structured questions and 30% of open questions. The results showed among the young citizens a conformism which results from a feeling of impotence, of not being capable of doing something to change things, and hostility with the political institutions that do not provide equal opportunities for participation for the youth. Furthermore, it is argued that the use of Internet has not had a significant impact in the construction of another type of youth's political culture.

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“…While some research has considered the distinction between online and offline actions more generally, results are mixed. For example, Soon and Kluver () found that political blogging (commonly viewed as a ‘narcissistic activity’, p. 500) promoted the emergence of collective identity that drove collective action both online and offline. However, other research (exploring online socio‐political action more broadly) has suggested that mobilization attempts are specific to media: Face‐to‐face mobilization attempts promote offline actions, while online mobilization attempts to promote online actions (Vissers, Hooghe, Stolle, & Maheo, ; see also Brunsting & Postmes, ; Postmes & Brunsting, ).…”

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Whatever happened to Kony2012? Understanding a global Internet phenomenon as an emergent social identity

Thomas

McGarty

Lala

et al. 2015

Euro J Social Psych

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Kony2012 was a viral Internet video that attracted unprecedented online interest in promoting a campaign to arrest the leader of an African militant group. The current research considers the social psychological bases of social media‐based collective action. In three cross‐sectional surveys (N = 304) collected before, on, and after the key action date of 20 April 2012, we consider the nature (opinion based or global) and function (emergent or transforming) of social identity in modern forms of social action. Multigroup structural equation modelling showed that Kony2012 action was best captured by an emergent opinion‐based social identity. Moreover, the same factors that predicted Kony2012 action generally also predicted engagement in new repertoires of protest (involving the use of social media) and an observable traditional socio‐political action (signing a letter to a government minister). The results suggest that there is no sharp dividing line between traditional and new forms of collective action and that both may be understood as valid expressions of collective selfhood. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Uniting Political Bloggers in Diversity: Collective Identity and Web Activism

Abstract: In contrast to the common view of blogging as a highly narcissistic activity

Cited by 31 publications

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Social Media and Trust during the Gezi Protests in Turkey

Social Media and Trust during the Gezi Protests in Turkey

Internet, Political Socialization, and Youth’s Political Culture in the South of Brazil

Whatever happened to Kony2012? Understanding a global Internet phenomenon as an emergent social identity

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