One Foot on the Streets, One Foot on the Web

2018 ◽  
pp. 443-453
Author(s):  
Paolo Gerbaudo
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Digital Politics ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Web

Digital communication technologies are modifying how social movements communicate internally and externally and the way participants are organized and mobilized. This transformation calls for a rethinking of how we conceive of and analyze them. Scholars cannot be content with studying the digital and the physical or the online and the offline separately, but must explore the imbrication between these aspects by studying how the elements of social movements combine in a political “ensemble,” an ecosystem, or an action texture, defining the possibilities and limits of collective action. This chapter proposes a qualitative methodology combining analysis of digital media with observations of events and interviews with participants to develop a holistic account of collective action. This methodology is best positioned to capture the changing nature and meaning of protest action in a digital era, producing a “thick account” of the relationship between digital politics and everyday life.

Toward a Synthetic Framework

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-46
Author(s):  
Jun Liu
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Studies

In line with the existing scholarship that underlines the relevance of communication, this chapter outlines a framework that integrates knowledge from the fields of communication studies, sociology, and political science and that centralizes and sensitizes communication enabling an interrogation of contentious collective action and, not least, the possible influence from ICTs. Without a scrutiny of the various forms of communication and metacommunication in contention, I specify, it would be hard to rationalize the relevance of digital communication technologies in contentious collective action. Issues of methodology are also discussed in Chapter 2.

Technology and Inuit identity: Facebook use by Inuit youth

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Castleton
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Facebook Use ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Relationship

This article discusses the relationship between technology and Inuit identity. Using interviews, it explores how a group of students from the Arctic College located in the community of Iqaluit in the Canadian Arctic, use the social network Facebook. It was found that in addition to an expected use of the social network associated with the script promoted by the technology, Inuit youth used Facebook to access content related to their identity in various groups, discuss sociocultural issues, and remember traditions. This article argues that Inuit identity is an example of how indigenous cultures have to be understood as something dynamic, constantly changing, for which information and communication technologies are fundamental. Furthermore, this article claims that rather than understanding Facebook as a tool that is adopted by Indigenous people—as previous literature tends to hold—the use of digital media should be conceived as part and parcel of identity.

scholarly journals Introduction to special issue on digitalization, labour and global production

2020 ◽  
pp. 102452942091447
Author(s):  
Gale Raj-Reichert ◽  
Sabrina Zajak ◽  
Nicole Helmerich
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Global North ◽  
Global Systems ◽  
The Relationship

This special issue contributes to the emerging literature on digitalization and its impact on work and workers in global systems of production. Three key themes are featured in the collection of papers. They are on the relationship between the use of digital communication technologies and power relationships, working conditions of online workers or crowd-workers, and shifting geographies of production. The papers also largely focus on the global South, contributing to research on digitalization and labour which has thus far tended to examine large and higher income countries mainly in the global North. This introductory article expands on and situates the papers broadly within the literature on digitalization and labour and within the three themes more specifically, and discusses their implications for future research.

scholarly journals "What if No One Had Spoken out Against this Policy?" The Rise of Asylum Seeker and Refugeee Advocacy in Australia

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Gosden
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Other ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Asylum Seekers And Refugees

This paper examines the rise of an asylum seeker and refugee advocacy movement in Australia in recent years. It situates this phenomenon within Alberto Melucci's understanding of social movements as variable and diffuse forms of social action involved in challenging the logic of a system. Following this theoretical framework, it explores the empirical features of this particular collective action, as well as the struggle to redefine the nature of the relationship between citizens of a sovereign state and 'the other' in the personage of asylum seekers and refugees.

scholarly journals Design and Implementation of key Generation Algorithm for Secure Image

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 5139-5146
Keyword(s):  
Digital Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Key Generation ◽  
Image Communication ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Cryptographic System ◽  
Result Analysis

The advancements in internet and 5G communication technologies enormously use images as a crucial element for effective digital communication. Most of the digital devices support image communication as a prominent way of communication in digital Era. Most of the unauthorized access of digital Era communications leads to serious issues in digital data or digital image communications. Hence, Image Security in digital communication becomes an egress area of research in Digital Era. This paper is to design and implement an algorithm with a 96 bits cryptographic system. The result analysis carries out in this paper on input images and presents the comparative analysis of our proposed algorithm with the standard algorithms through standard performance evaluation metrics.

scholarly journals Fear time versus science time: discursive disputes over the epidemic of the Zika virus and microcephaly in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 113-137
Author(s):  
Simone Evangelista Cunha ◽  
Marcelo Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Zika Virus ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Lay Public ◽  
The Way

This article discusses some of the tensions caused by the friction between distinct temporal regimes associated with an epidemic episode. This text is based on the study of the way information related to the Zika epidemic and microcephaly in Brazil was speeded out during the year 2015-2016. Starting with the context of intense mediatization, as well as of the complex temporality produced by digital communication technologies, we sought to analyze the relationship between human and non-human actors that contributed to the social construction of this epidemy. The focus of the text are the videos produced by the “lay” public who also spread rumors which show likely alternative explanations about the epidemy.

Social Media and Cultural Tourism

2022 ◽  
pp. 363-384
Author(s):  
Murat Koçyiğit ◽  
Büşra Küçükcivil
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Relationship

The development of digital communication technologies and the increase in the use of digital platforms by individuals have increased the tendency towards touristic activities. Cultural tourism, which is carried out for certain purposes within the diversity of tourism, is one of the rising tourism activities of recent times. In this context, tourism management benefits from social media platforms as a tool in marketing their products and services related to cultural tourism. Social media platforms are important here for two aspects. The first of these is the use of social media by tourism management in the marketing of products and services by organizing individual and mass cultural tours and communicating with target audiences. The second is that individuals benefit from social media platforms in participating in cultural tourism and decision making. In this direction, it is important to evaluate conceptually the relationship between social media platforms, one of the most important digital communication technologies, and cultural tourism.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kira D. Jumet
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Rational Choice ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
Egyptian Revolution ◽  
Political Opportunities ◽  
Choice Decision ◽  
Individual Decisions ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter introduces the argument, situates the study in the theoretical literature, and outlines the path of the book. The chapter introduces key definitions and concepts, such as revolution, social movements, and rebellions. The chapter also demonstrates that individual decisions to protest are affected by structural factors and that emotions affect how people make decisions. By explaining the relationship between structural factors and rational choice decision-making, this chapter sets the stage for how political opportunities, mobilizing structures, and framing processes intersected with emotions to influence individuals’ decisions to either engage or not engage in collective action during the Egyptian Revolution.

Transnational Activism of Young Spanish Emigrants and Uses of ICT

2017 ◽  
pp. 155-187
Author(s):  
Mauricio N. Olivera ◽  
Denise Cogo
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Voting Rights ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Transnational Activism ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Information And Communication

This chapter analyses the transnational collective action of Spanish emigrants in the countries of destination and origin, from appropriations of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). In the conceptual framework of migrant transnationalism, we approach the collective action and communication, the experience of network activism and the use of ICTs by the transnational Spanish collective Marea Granate (MG), created in 2013, with the aim of intervening in in the discourses of the Spanish government, regarding: a) the Spanish migration; and b) their rights abroad. The focus is on MG´s four collective actions on the voting rights of Spanish emigrants, applying a qualitative methodology. In the conclusions, a transnational activism is observed, with actions mediated and unmediated by ICTs, where Spanish emigrants denounce and mobilize, causing rearrangements in the sociopolitical spaces between States and citizens.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Media Environment ◽  
Image Construction ◽  
Opinion Polling

This chapter provides an overview of key arguments and goals. A key mission of the book is to help scholars of political communication and digital media contextualize and better understand the shifting practices by campaigns long before Barack Obama was a household name. To do so, this study borrows from the work of Robert Denton, looking especially at the political and social context, the organization, fundraising, and image construction of the candidates, as well as factoring in the role of journalists and the hybrid media environment and public opinion polling. I also examine citizen involvement in the campaign. I describe how campaigns’ use of digital communication technologies and the specific affordance of interactivity bring to light that the objective of a campaign is to win—not to fully engage citizens in the campaign. This chapter concludes by providing a brief outline of the book, underscoring the shifting campaign practices that occurred between 1996 and 2016.

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