scholarly journals Creating the Collective: Social Media, the Occupy Movement and Its Constitution as a Collective Actor *

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-125
Author(s):  
Anastasia Kavada
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
Collective Actor

Occupy Movement, Religion and Social Formations

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Matt Sheedy
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Opportunity ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Beliefs And Practices ◽  
Opportunity Structures ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
Political Opportunity Structures

The Occupy movement was an unprecedented social formation that spread to approximate 82 countries around the globe in the fall of 2011 via social media through the use of myths, symbols and rituals that were performed in public space and quickly drew widespread mainstream attention. In this paper I argue that the movement offers a unique instance of how discourse functions in the construction of society and I show how the shared discourses of Occupy were taken-up and shaped in relation to the political opportunity structures and interests of those involved based on my own fieldwork at Occupy Winnipeg. I also argue that the Occupy movement provides an example of how we might substantively attempt to classify “religion” by looking at how it embodied certain metaphysical claims while contrasting it with the beliefs and practices of more conventionally defined “religious” communities.

scholarly journals After the #Keyword: Eliciting, Sustaining, and Coordinating Participation Across the Occupy Movement

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 205630511775072 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Donovan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Organization ◽  
Virtual Organization ◽  
Virtual Organizations ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
External Pressures ◽  
Hybrid Forms

Networked social movements (NSMs) are hybrid forms of social organization that rely on the platforms of the Internet to connect multiple individuals and groups to address a social justice issue. I mapped the communication infrastructure of the Occupy Movement from July 2011 to June 2013 to demonstrate how changes in protesters’ forms of communication reflected transformations in the organization of the movement and its capacity to mobilize participants. Through ethnography, I show how internal and external pressures—the high density of connections through social media, a desire to coordinate across locations, and police raids on encampments—led to the development of a virtual organization, called InterOccupy. InterOccupy is a communication platform owned and operated by participants in the Occupy Movement. InterOccupy took infrastructure building as a political strategy to ensure the movement endured beyond the police raids on the encampments. I conclude that NSMs create virtual organizations when there are routine and insurmountable failures in the communication milieu, where the future of the movement is at stake. My research follows the Occupy Movement ethnographically to understand what happens after the keyword.

Archiving Aggregates of Individually Created Digital Content: Lessons from Archiving the Occupy Movement

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard Besser
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
High Volume ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
Personal Archives ◽  
Will Force ◽  
Automate Selection ◽  
Do So

AbstractWith the ubiquity of digital phones and cameras, our memory institutions will need to ingest an increasingly large number of born-digital media, much of it coming from personal archives. The high volume of this material will force collections to find smart ways to automate appraisal/selection, metadata assignment, and standardization of formats, or to convince contributors to do so. This article reports on ideas and methods developed by the group Activist Archivists to automate selection, metadata collection, and standardization of the born-digital media documenting the Occupy movement. Techniques include employing automatic time/date/location stamping, analyzing social media sites, producing guidelines for contributors, and asking for community involvement in selecting the material perceived as having the most enduring value.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel C. Woolley ◽  
Philip N. Howard
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Global Democracy ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
Pivotal Moments ◽  
The World ◽  
Technological Tools ◽  
The Arab Spring

Political communication around the world has evolved significantly through social media. Changes are apparent both in terms of social practices and core technological tools: these include the infrastructure upon which political communication occurs, the salience of its effects, and the habits of its practitioners. Several of these advancements have benefited global democracy. Platforms such as Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook have been at the heart of communication and organization during pivotal moments of popular activism since 2010: the Arab Spring, the Occupy Movement, and the Umbrella Protests in Hong Kong among them (Howard, 2010; Bennett & Segerberg, 2013; Woolley, 2016). These same sites have been, increasingly over the last five years, normalized for political control by the powerful. Each of the chapters in this collection highlight the ways that digital media have been co-opted in efforts to manipulate public opinion for various means from the usage of bot armies.

Searching and Clustering Methodologies

2015 ◽  
Vol 659 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Driscoll ◽  
Kjerstin Thorson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Political Event ◽  
Social Networking Services ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Consumer Boycotts

People create, consume, and share content online in increasingly complex ways, often including multiple news, entertainment, and social media platforms. This article explores methods for tracing political media content across overlapping communication infrastructures. Using the 2011 Occupy Movement protests and 2013 consumer boycotts as cases, we illustrate methods for creating integrated datasets of political event-related social media content by (1) using fixed URLs to link posts across platforms ( URL-based integration) and (2) using semiautomated text clustering to identify similar posts across social networking services ( thematic integration). These approaches help to reveal biases in the way that we characterize political communication practices that may occur when we focus on a single platform in isolation.

Mobilities of a linguistic landscape at Los Angeles City Hall Park

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 653-674 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Linguistic Landscape ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
City Hall ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Mediated Discourse

In this article, I expand a category of linguistic landscapes, the signs by individuals in public spaces, to include another form of linguistic landscape even more transgressive in nature and intent: the panoply of protest signs produced and mobilized by the Occupy Movement during the Fall of 2011 at Los Angeles City Hall Park. My data are drawn from the photographs I took of these signs at the Park and the near vicinity, a YouTube video of a protest sign, a blog commenting on this sign, and a political cartoon using the same image featured on two other signs. I explore how social actors drew upon and mediated specific discourses in their protest signs that became transportable across time and space, the role of these signs in transforming public space, and this linguistic landscape’s ensuing mobilities in its mediated relocations to online social media sites and blogs. Keywords: linguistic landscapes; space; mobility; allusion; social media; mediated discourse analysis; Occupy Movement

Social Media Activism

2016 ◽  
pp. 40-54
Author(s):  
Pantelis Vatikiotis
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Media Activism ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
Media Formats

This chapter critically evaluates the role of social networking platforms (Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr) in contemporary protest movements (Arab Spring, European Movements and Occupy Movement), pointing out continuities and discontinuities of the new wave of contention. From this perspective, it evaluates the societal conditions of different contexts, the interplay between different media formats during the relevant episodes of contention, and the diversity of social actors engaged in these practices that have accordingly influenced the emergence and the prospects of the protests.

scholarly journals Hong Kong protests: A quantitative and bottom-up account of resistance against Chinese social media (sina weibo) censorship

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (62) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Jingyi Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Text Messages ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Micro Level ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Media Censorship

Chinese online censorship, though has been deeply explored by many scholars from a top-down perspective and has mostly concentrated on the macro level, it appears that there are few, if any, existing studies that features a bottom-up perspective and explores the micro-level aspects of online media censorship. To fill this research gap, this article uses the Occupy movement in Hong Kong as a research case to analyze social media users’ resistance under conditions of heavy censorship from a bottom-up perspective. That is, the research questions seek to uncover what novel ways Weibo users use to try and circumvent Weibo censorship. It is confirmed that the microbloggers tend to use embedded pictures and user ID names, instead of using text messages to camouflage the sensitive information to share with other users; that Weibo users tend to create new accounts once their original ones have been closed or monitored.

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