The August riots, shock and the prohibition of thought

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 401-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keir Milburn
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
Shock Absorbers ◽  
The Right

In the immediate aftermath of the August 2011 riots discussion of their context and meaning was severely restricted. This paper examines this prohibition on thought through the construction of a concept of shock as an immobilising excess of unexpected information. Positioning this concept within the problematics of contemporary social movements, we then ask how shock absorbers might be built into movement practice by collectivising the reception of potentially ‘shocking’ information, producing the right conditions for collective analysis. In the aftermath of the riots, it is suggested here, the weak ties of social media proved less than adequate for such a task.

scholarly journals Extremism and Intelligence

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Julian Richards
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Crossing Over ◽  
Allocation Of Resources ◽  
Transnational Social Movements ◽  
Intelligence Agencies ◽  
Difficult Challenge ◽  
The Right

Contemporary extremist threats encompass a widening spectrum, whereby long-standing threats are supplemented by the stubborn persistence of historical threats, and by the emergence of new threats and Violent Transnational Social Movements (VTSMs). For security and intelligence agencies, the management challenges posed by the evolving picture are complex and multi-faceted. Probably the most difficult challenge is that of prioritisation and the allocation of resources across the spectrum of investigation. Other challenges include those of recruiting and retaining staff with the right cutting-edge skills, especially in such fields of social media exploitation; and a fundamental definitional question of how to define some of the newly-emerging threats, avoiding questions of surveillance crossing-over into inappropriate suppression of legitimate dissent in a liberal democracy.

Covering Protests on Twitter: The Influences on Journalists’ Social Media Portrayals of Left- and Right-Leaning Demonstrations in Brazil

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel R. Mourão ◽  
Weiyue Chen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Mixed Methodology ◽  
Social Media Data ◽  
Media Portrayals ◽  
Media Sociology ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
The Right ◽  
Media Data ◽  
The Way

This study uses a media sociology approach to untangle how multiple influences shape the way journalists cover left- and right-leaning protests on social media. Several studies have investigated how reporters portray social movements, finding that news marginalizes protestors by focusing on spectacle and violent tactics to the detriment of their ideas. In this study, we turn to journalists’ Twitter accounts to analyze if these patterns are transferred to social media, as predicted by the literature on normalization of new affordances. Through a mixed methodology matching survey and social media data from 466 Brazilian journalists who tweeted about protests in 2013 and 2015, results revealed individual attitudes predicted coverage, indicating that social media was a space for personal, not professional, expression. Contrary to the literature, findings show that social media portrayals were more legitimizing during the left-leaning demonstrations than during the right-leaning elite-driven one. As a result, marginalizing patterns of protest coverage were challenged, not replicated, on Twitter. These findings suggest a limitation of the theory of normalization to explain how global journalists use social media.

The Impact of Social Media on Social Movements

2017 ◽  
pp. 224-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
İrem Eren-Erdoğmuş ◽  
Sinem Ergun
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

The primary objective of this chapter is to analyze the support of social media for social movements within the context of the anti-consumption movement. Social media have proved to be strategic for initiating, organizing and communicating social movements. The anti-consumption movement is a trend of the postmodernism era that has not yet reached a large following. A secondary aim of this chapter is to analyze the similarities and differences in the support of social media for the anti-consumption movement between one developed and one emerging market. To achieve this goal, a content analysis was employed to analyze Facebook accounts of anti-consumption online communities in the USA and Turkey. The findings show that social media can be the right medium to increase coverage of social movements in society. Additionally, the online institutionalization and decentralized organization of the online community as well as stable social media sharing help support non-radical social movements like anti-consumption.

Influence of social media marketing towards purchase of residential property

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (6) ◽  
pp. 145-149
Author(s):  
A. Ekanthalingam ◽  
Dr. A. Gopinath
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Social Media Marketing ◽  
Purchase Decision ◽  
Residential Property ◽  
Customer Delight ◽  
The Right ◽  
Potential Customers

‘Marketing’ is not just an activity. It is a process, a philosophy and a phenomenon. The evolution of marketing has produced tremendous benefits to business and end consumers. The innovation in this field has been steady and yet at high speed. From ‘word of mouth advertising’ which was the only option earlier we are now at the mercy of what consumers are sharing about their experience on the internet. Social Media has become more powerful than what we think and this article shows how we can leverage this to benefit the top-line and customer delight. We dive deep to understand the influence Social Media can create towards purchase of residential property. As much complex it is to make the purchase decision of a property, it is equally difficult for marketers to send the right message to their target audience. Through this article, we are trying to see how marketers have transformed their traditional marketing strategies to address the needs of the millennial population, who are the most potential customers for property purchase.

Techniques of Viral Marketing

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (6) ◽  
pp. 97-99
Author(s):  
Arockia Jeyasheela A ◽  
Dr.S. Chandramohan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Viral Marketing ◽  
Consumer Perception ◽  
Key Word ◽  
The Right ◽  
A Company

This study is discussed about the viral marketing. It is a one of the key success of marketing. This paper gave the techniques of viral marketing. It can be delivered word of mouth. It can be created by both the representatives of a company and consumer (individuals or communities). The right viral message with go to right consumer to the right time. Viral marketing is easy to attract the consumer. It is most important advertising to consumer. It involves consumer perception, organization contribution, blogs, SMO (Social Media Optimize), SEO (Social Engine Optimize). Principles of viral marketing are social profile gathering, Proximity Market, Real time Key word density.

Chinese Social Media Platforms and Microblogging in the Context of Public Diplomacy

Communicology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-179
Author(s):  
E.S. Nadezhkina
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Interactive Communication ◽  
Network Interaction ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
The Right ◽  
Chinese Social Media

The term “digital public diplomacy” that appeared in the 21st century owes much to the emergence and development of the concept of Web 2.0 (interactive communication on the Internet). The principle of network interaction, in which the system becomes better with an increase in the number of users and the creation of user-generated content, made it possible to create social media platforms where news and entertainment content is created and moderated by the user. Such platforms have become an expression of the opinions of various groups of people in many countries of the world, including China. The Chinese segment of the Internet is “closed”, and many popular Western services are blocked in it. Studying the structure of Chinese social media platforms and microblogging, as well as analyzing targeted content is necessary to understand China’s public opinion, choose the right message channels and receive feedback for promoting the country’s public diplomacy. This paper reveals the main Chinese social media platforms and microblogging and provides the assessment of their popularity, as well as possibility of analyzing China’s public opinion based on “listening” to social media platforms and microblogging.

We are “the Resistance”: Predictors and consequences of self-categorization into the emerging movement to oppose Trump

2020 ◽  
pp. 136843022097475
Author(s):  
Samuel Hansen Freel ◽  
Rezarta Bilali ◽  
Erin Brooke Godfrey
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Efficacy Beliefs ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Identity Consolidation

In a three-wave longitudinal study conducted in the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency, this paper examines how people come to self-categorize into the emerging social movement “the Resistance,” and how self-categorization into this movement influences future participation in collective action and perceptions of the movement’s efficacy. Conventional collective action (e.g., protest, lobby legislators)—but not persuasive collective action (e.g., posting on social media)—and perceived identity consolidation efficacy of the movement at Wave 1 predicted a higher likelihood of self-categorization into the movement 1 month later (Wave 2) and 2 months later (Wave 3). Self-categorization into the Resistance predicted two types of higher subsequent movement efficacy perceptions, and helped sustain the effects of conventional collective action and movement efficacy beliefs at Wave 1 on efficacy beliefs at Wave 3. Implications for theory and future research on emerging social movements are discussed.

scholarly journals Pink organising: Notes on communication, self-organisation, noise and radical social movements

Organization ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 696-715
Author(s):  
Thomas Swann ◽  
Andrea Ghelfi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Effective Communication ◽  
Pink Noise ◽  
Self Organisation ◽  
Online Forms ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Radical Left

This article explores the presence of noise in processes of communication and organisation in social movements. While the concept of noise has always had a role in discussions of communication, it is in light of the influence and use of social media that it comes to the fore as crucial in terms of how we understand communication. Rather than being a factor that interferes with effective communication, we will argue that noise is in fact inseparable from the experience of receiving information and organising through social media. Furthermore, the emergence of different ‘nuances’ of noise tells us something about different dynamics of self-organisation via social media. This article analyses the online forms of organisation of the 15M movement and the experiences of Dutch radical left activists to inform a better appreciation of the radical potential of a certain variant of noise: pink noise.

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