Essays about: "Connective Action"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 essays containing the words Connective Action.

  1. 1. ¿Quién dió la orden? Mediations for social change, affects and digital media

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Gisselle Vanessa Martín Chocontá; [2023]
    Keywords : Mediations; affects; digital media; social change; connective action; collective action; meaning-making; social movements; political agency; Twitter.; Mediaciones; afectos; medios digitales; cambio social; acción conectiva; acción colectiva; producción de sentido; movimientos sociales; agencia política; Twitter.;

    Abstract : In 2019,  Movice and CT created a mural that depicts faces of  high-ranking military officers who were in command when more than 6.000 civilians were killed by soldiers and were presented as guerilla members. READ MORE

  3. 2. Ukrainian Digital Media Activism On Instagram Stories During The War Against Russia In 2022 : An Analysis Of Kharkiv-Related Users’ Digital Activity During March 2022

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media

    Author : Anastasiia Khardikova; [2023]
    Keywords : digital media activism; internet activism; Instagram; Stories; war in Ukraine; semiotics; online activism during the war; anchorage; Ukraine; Russia; content analysis; Kharkiv;

    Abstract : This study examines digital media activism during the full-scale war in Ukraine caused by the Russian invasion in 2022, focusing specifically on Instagram content posted by users with connections to Kharkiv city between March 18-25, 2022. Kharkiv was heavily affected by bombings throughout the war. READ MORE

  4. 3. Flexible Organizational Structures of the Digitally Mediated Collective Actor - A Case of the Shame Movement in Georgia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för strategisk kommunikation

    Author : Darejan Tsurtsumia; [2023]
    Keywords : Communication Constitutes Organization; CCO; Collective Action; Structures; Digital Media; Georgia; Shame Movement; Social Movements; Logic of Connective Action; Flexible Organisational Structures; Protest Transformation; Gavrilov s Night; Georgian Dream; Private Facebook Group; Rallies; Non-human agency; Four Flows Framework; Solidarity; Citizenism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Recent scholarship has challenged the notion that digital tools alone can sustain a social movement, emphasizing instead the importance of collective identity and organizational structures. However, there is still limited understanding of how organizational structures emerge and transform in a social movement. READ MORE

  5. 4. “If Men Acted Like Women Do, There Would Be Riots in the Streets” : Personalized and Collective Action Framing in the Incelopshere

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Ebba Wallin Eriksson; [2023]
    Keywords : Incels; Online movement; Contentious action networks; Frame analysis; Connective action; Antifeminism;

    Abstract : In recent years, several high-profile acts of violence linked to the virtual incelosphere have sparked public concern and scholarly interest. Yet, scant attention has been paid to whether these perpetrators can be understood as lone-wolf attackers or as members of a collective. READ MORE

  6. 5. Contagion, Contention, and Content: Political Mobilization on Telegram in the 2020 Belarusian post-Election Protests

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

    Author : Vide Wassberg; [2022]
    Keywords : Telegram; Belarus; Protest; Participation; Mobilization; Connective Action; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This study aims to scrutinize the role of the social media application Telegram as a protest mobilizing structure during the 2020 post-election uprising in Minsk, Belarus. The purpose is to strengthen the understanding on how protest mobilizations online relate to offline protest participation in authoritarian states, and how the usage of social media in social movements impact, and is influenced by, its authoritarian context. READ MORE