Essays about: "Sidney Tarrow"

Found 2 essays containing the words Sidney Tarrow.

  1. 1. "They're coming for our games" : A study of far-right social mobilization in the gaming community

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Erik Lindvall; [2018]
    Keywords : Social movement; mobilization; radicalization; political activation; internet; online; gamers; gamergate; video games; anti-feminism; wolfenstein;

    Abstract : The aim of this is thesis is to study and understand the development within the gaming community in the latter half of 2014, where a harassment campaign against the female developer Zoe Quinn led to an industry-spanning controversy that divided large sections of the gaming community, and how this fed into a far-right radicalization of certain groups of young male gamers. This thesis focuses on the idea that the controversy in question helped mobilize these games into an online social movement that aimed to “take back our games” from the perceived outside threats of feminism and political correctness, and how they through that process became an easy target for assimilation within large far-right and white supremacist movements. READ MORE

  3. 2. Women’s Movement in Contemporary Georgia and The Role of Facebook in Developments of the Movement

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies

    Author : Nino Vadatchkoria; [2018]
    Keywords : Women’s movement; Facebook; social movement; Georgia; campaign; feminism; mobilization; NGO; Charles Tilly; Sidney Tarrow; femicide; quota; legal gender recognition; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : There is a theoretical debate among social movement scholars around an increasing concern with the role of technology in terms of key social movement activities, including mobilization, running and engaging in campaigns and making claims on authorities. This research deals with this debate and contributes to it with this case study on the Georgian women’s movement. READ MORE