5,200
Views
40
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Articles

A situated understanding of digital technologies in social movements. Media ecology and media practice approaches

ORCID Icon
Pages 494-505 | Received 05 Jan 2017, Accepted 22 Mar 2017, Published online: 17 Apr 2017

References

  • ACT UP NY. (2003). DIVA TV (Damned interfering video activists). Retrieved October 19, 2016, from http://www.actupny.org/divatv/
  • Ahmed, S., Jaidka, K., & Cho, J. (2017). Tweeting India’s Nirbhaya protest: A study of emotional dynamics in an online social movement. Social Movement Studies, 16(4). doi:10.1080/14742837.2016.1192457
  • Atton, C. (2001). Alternative media. London: Sage.
  • Barassi, V. (2015). Activism on the web: Everyday struggles against digital capitalism. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Beissinger, M. R. (2002). Nationalist mobilization and the collapse of the soviet state. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.10.1017/CBO9780511613593
  • Bennett, W. L. (2012). The personalization of politics: Political identity, social media, and changing patterns of participation. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 644, 20–39.10.1177/0002716212451428
  • Bennett, W. L., & Segerberg, A. (2013). The logic of connective action: Digital media and the personalization of contentious politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.10.1017/CBO9781139198752
  • Bob, C. (2005). The marketing of rebellion: Insurgents, media, and international activism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Cammaerts, B. (2016). Overcoming net-centricity in the study of alternative and community media. Journal of Alternative and Community Media, 1, 1–3.
  • Cammaerts, B., Mattoni, A., & McCurdy, P. (Eds.). (2013). Mediation and protest movements. Bristol: Intellect.
  • Castells, M. (2012). Networks of outrage and hope: Social movements in the internet age. Cambridge: Polity.
  • Cleaver, H. M. J. (1998). The Zapatista effect: The internet and the rise of an alternative political fabric. Journal of International Affairs, 51, 621–640.
  • Couldry, N. (2000). The place of media power: Pilgrims and witnesses of the media age. London: Routledge.
  • Couldry, N. (2004). Theorising media as practice. Social Semiotics, 14, 115–132.10.1080/1035033042000238295
  • Couldry, N. (2009). Theorising media as practice. In B. Bräuchler & J. Postill (Eds.), Theorising media and practice (pp. 35–54). New York, NY: Berghahn Books.
  • Couldry, N., & Hepp, A. (2017). The mediated construction of reality. Cambridge: Polity.
  • Carroll, W. K., & Ratner, R. S. (1999). Media strategies and political projects: A comparative study of social movements. Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie [Cahiers Canadiens de Sociologie], 24(1), 1–34.10.2307/3341476
  • Dahlberg-Grundberg, M. (2016). Technology as movement on hybrid organizational types and the mutual constitution of movement identity and technological infrastructure in digital activism. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 22, 524–542.
  • della Porta, D., & Diani, M. (Eds.). (2015). The Oxford handbook of social movements. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199678402.001.0001
  • DIVA TV. (1989). Be a DIVA! Retrieved from http://archive.org/details/ddtv_34_be_a_diva
  • Downing, J. D. H. (2003). Audiences and readers of alternative media: The absent lure of the virtually unknown. Media Culture Society, 25(5), 625–645. doi:10.1177/01634437030255004
  • Dunbar-Hester, C. (2009). “Free the spectrum!” Activist encounters with old and new media technology. New Media & Society, 11, 221–240.
  • Earl, J., & Garrett, R. K. (2017). The new information frontier: Toward a more nuanced view of social movement communication. Social Movement Studies, 16. doi:10.1080/14742837.2016.1192028
  • Earl, J., & Kimport, K. (2011). Digitally enabled social change: Activism in the internet age. Boston: MIT Press.10.7551/mitpress/9780262015103.001.0001
  • Eleftheriadis, K. (2015). Queer responses to austerity: Insights from the Greece of crisis. ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 14, 1032–1057.
  • Enli, G. S., & Skogerbø, E. (2013). Personalized campaigns in party-centred politics. Information, Communication & Society, 16, 757–774.10.1080/1369118X.2013.782330
  • Fanon, F., & Gilly, A. (1994). A dying colonialism. (H. Chevalier, Trans.). New York, NY: Grove Press.
  • Feigenbaum, A., Frenzel, F., & McCurdy, P. (2013). Protest camps. London: Zed Books.
  • Flesher Fominaya, C. (2011). The madrid bombings and popular protest: Misinformation, counter-information, mobilisation and elections after ‘11-M’. Contemporary Social Science, 6, 289–307.10.1080/21582041.2011.603910
  • Gamson, W. A., & Wolfsfeld, G. (1993). Movements and media as interacting systems. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 528, 114–125.10.1177/0002716293528001009
  • Garzia, D. (2014). Personalization of politics and electoral change. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Gillan, K., Pickerill, J., & Webster, F. (2008). Anti-war activism: New Media and Protest in the Information Age. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Harding, V. (1997). We changed the world: African Americans 1945–1970. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Hensby, A. (2017). Open networks and secret Facebook groups: Exploring cycle effects on activists’ social media use in the 2010/11 UK student protests. Social Movement Studies, 16(4). doi:10.1080/14742837.2016.1201421
  • Hirsch, T., & Henry, J. (2005, April). TXTmob: Text messaging for protest swarms. Retrieved from http://web.media.mit.edu/~tad/pub/txtmob_chi05.pdf
  • Hobart, M. (2009). What do we mean by “media practices”? In B. Bräuchler & J. Postill (Eds.), Theorising Media and Practice (pp. 55–76). New York, NY: Berghahn Books.
  • Jordan, T. (2002). Activism!: Direct action, hacktivism and the future of society. London: Reaktion Book.
  • Juris, J. S. (2008). Networking futures. The movements against corporate globalization. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.10.1215/9780822389170
  • Kaun, A. (2016). Crisis and critique: A brief history of media participation in times of crisis. London: Zed Books.
  • Koopmans, R. (2004). Protest in time and space: The evolution of waves of contention. In D. A. Snow, S. A. Soule, & H. Kriesi (Eds.), The Blackwell companion to social movements (pp. 19–46). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Lievrouw, L. (2011). Alternative and activist new media. Cambridge: Polity.
  • Lim, M. (2012). Clicks, cabs, and coffee houses: Social media and oppositional movements in Egypt, 2004–2011. Journal of Communication, 62, 231–248.
  • Liu, J. (2017). From ‘moments of madness’ to ‘the politics of mundanity’—Researching digital media and contentious collective actions in China. Social Movement Studies, 16(4). doi:10.1080/14742837.2016.1192027
  • Mattoni, M. A. (2012). Media practices and protest politics: How precarious workers mobilise. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
  • Mattoni, A. (2013). Repertoires of communication in social movement processes. In B. Cammaerts, A. Mattoni, & P. McCurdy (Eds.), Mediation and protest movements (pp. 39–56). Bristol: Intellect.
  • Mattoni, A., & Treré, E. (2014). Media practices, mediation processes, and mediatization in the study of social movements. Communication Theory, 24, 252–271.10.1111/comt.2014.24.issue-3
  • Mazzoleni, G. (2000). A return to civic and political engagement prompted by personalized political leadership? Political Communication, 17, 325–328.10.1080/10584600050178915
  • McAdam, D., & Sewell, W. H. J. (2001). It’s about time: Temporality in the study of contentious politics. In R. Aminzade (Ed.), Silence and voice in the study of contentious politics (pp. 89–125). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • McAdam, D., Tarrow, S., & Tilly, C. (2001). Dynamics of contention. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • McAllister, I. (2007). The personalization of politics. In R. Dalton & H. Klingeman (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of political behavior (pp. 571–588). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Melucci, A. (1989). Nomads of the present: Social movements and individual needs in contemporary society. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
  • Mercea, D., Iannelli, L., & Loader, B. D. (2016). Protest communication ecologies. Information, Communication & Society, 19, 279–289. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2015.1109701
  • Milan, S. (2013). Social movements and their technologies: Wiring social change. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan.10.1057/9781137313546
  • Milan, S., & van der Velden, L. (2016). The alternative epistemologies of data activism. Digital Culture and Society. Retrieved November 16, 2016, from https://papers.ssrn.com/abstract=2850470
  • Nielsen, R. K. (2011). Mundane internet tools, mobilizing practices, and the coproduction of citizenship in political campaigns. New Media & Society, 13, 755–771.10.1177/1461444810380863
  • Olesen, T. (2004). International zapatismo: The construction of solidarity in the age of globalization. London; New York, NY: Zed Books.
  • Pavan, E. (2017). The integrative power of online collective action networks beyond protest. Exploring social media use in the process of institutionalization. Social Movement Studies, 16(4). doi:10.1080/14742837.2016.1268956
  • Postill, J. (2012). New protest movements and viral media. Retrieved May 27, 2013, from http://johnpostill.com/2012/03/26/new-protest-movements-and-viral-media/
  • Qiu, J. L. (2008). Mobile civil society in Asia: A comparative study of people power II and the Nosamo movement. Javnost - The Public, 15, 39–58.10.1080/13183222.2008.11008975
  • Rafael, V. L. (2003). The cell phone and the crowd: Messianic politics in the contemporary Philippines. Public Culture, 15, 399–425. doi:10.1215/08992363-15-3-399
  • Rauch, J. (2007). Activists as interpretive communities: Rituals of consumption and interaction in an alternative media audience. Media Culture & Society, 29, 994–1013.
  • Rinke, E. M., & Röder, M. (2011). The Arab Spring media ecologies, communication culture, and temporal–spatial unfolding: Three components in a communication model of the Egyptian regime change. International Journal of Communication, 5, 1273–1285.
  • Rodriguez, C. (2001). Fissures in the mediascape. An international study of citizens’ media. Creskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
  • Rodriguez, C. (2016). Human agency and media praxis: Re-centring alternative and community media research. Journal of Alternative and Community Media, 1, 36–38.
  • Scalmer, S. (2013). Mediated nonviolence as a global force: An historical perspective. In B. Cammaerts, A. Mattoni, & P. McCurdy (Eds.), Mediation and protest movements (pp. 115–132). Bristol: Intellect.
  • Schatzki, T. R., Knorr-Cetina, K., & von Savigny, E. (2001). The practice turn in contemporary theory. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Stein, L. (2001). Access television and grassroots political communication in the United States. In J. D. H. Downing (Ed.), Radical media: Rebellious communication and social movements (pp. 299–324). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.10.4135/9781452204994
  • Swanson, D. L., & Mancini, P. (1996). Politics, media, and modern democracy: An international study of innovations in electoral campaigning and their consequences. Westport: Praeger Publisher.
  • Swidler, A. (2001). What anchors cultural practices? In T. R. Schatzki, K. K. Cetina, & E. von Savigny (Eds.), The practice turn in contemporary theory (pp. 74–92). London: Routledge.
  • Tarrow, S. (1989). Democracy and disorder: Social conflict, political protest and democracy in Italy, 1965–1975. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
  • Tarrow, S. (1994). Power in movement. Cambridge: Cambridge.
  • Tarrow, S. G. (2011). Power in movement: Social movements and contentious politics (3rd ed.). Cambrdige: Cambridge University Press.
  • Thompson, E. P. (1991). The making of the english working class. London: Penguin Books.
  • Tilly, C. (1978). From mobilization to revolution. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
  • Tilly, C. (1995). Contentious repertoires in Gret Britain, 1758–1834. In M. Traugott (Ed.), Repertoires & cycles of collective action (pp. 15–42). Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  • Treré, E. (2012). Social movements as information ecologies: Exploring the coevolution of multiple internet technologies for activism. International Journal of Communication, 6, 19. Retrieved from http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1681
  • Treré, E., & Mattoni, A. (2016). Media ecologies and protest movements: Main perspectives and key lessons. Information, Communication & Society, 19, 290–306.10.1080/1369118X.2015.1109699
  • Uitermark, J. (2017). Complex contention: Analyzing power dynamics within Anonymous. Social Movement Studies, 16(4). doi:10.1080/14742837.2016.1184136

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.