Essays about: "Networked social movements"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words Networked social movements.
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1. Activism in MMORPGs: A case studyof the MapleStory player boycott
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Medier och kommunikationAbstract : This thesis explores how online gaming has become a central tool for networked social movements to participate in consumer activism. I look at the case study of MapleStory: a Korean MMORPG game and their consumer activism efforts started by the players. READ MORE
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2. $GME To The Moon : Mapping Memetic Discourse as Discursive Strategyin Reddit Trading Community r/WallStreetBets during the GameStop Short Squeeze Saga
University essay from Stockholms universitet/JMKAbstract : As social media has emerged to become a key site for contemporary communications and cultural production, the internet meme has penetrated every level of social networking online. Albeit being a global phenomenon with pervasive discursive power in a number of fields ranging from humour to international politics and cyber warfare, comparatively little research has been made into how internet memes work on the discursive level of identity formation and their influence on the formation of internet-based social movements. READ MORE
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3. Protest Movements and the Climate Emergency Declarations of 2019: A New Social Media Logic to Connect and Participate in Politics
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och mediaAbstract : This thesis investigates the relationship between contemporary climate protest movements (Extinction Rebellion and Fridays For Future) and governmental bodies in European countries that declared a climate emergency in 2019. The primary contribution of this thesis is to demonstrate how emerging communication practices by these movements compare to the perceived influence of such practices among political decisionmakers in their governing bodies’ votes for a climate emergency declaration. READ MORE
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4. Putting people back into the economy: Urban restructuring and emerging alternatives in time of crisis
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografiAbstract : In many cities around the world, the financial crisis 2007 served as an opportunity both for grassroots movements and governments to rethink existing models of urban development. Some authors have pointed out that the crisis served to elevate discourses for progressive post-neoliberal urban transformations. READ MORE
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5. Feminism and media, opportunities and limitations of digital practices
University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Abstract : Researches done on social movements and media are often conducted at a micro-level, focusing on the individual activity (Klandermans 1997), or the macro level, excluding the meso level, linking the two first levels together. Furthermore, studies focusing on the relation between feminism as a social movement and media often neglect to identify the opportunities and the limitations of such an intersection. READ MORE
