Women’s March Minnesota on Facebook: Effects of social connection on different types of collective action

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 1785-1807 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simin Michelle Chen
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Theoretical Implication ◽  
Tie Strength ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Intention To Participate ◽  
Political Actions

Scholars have long debated the efficacy of social media in facilitating offline collective action. This research seeks to fill a gap in that literature by examining the role of social ties in determining intention to participate in different types of collective action. Survey findings show that aspects of tie strength—reciprocity, duration, and affect—have different impact on intention to participate in high- and low-cost political actions. Findings from this study have theoretical implication for the field as well as practical implication for social movement organizers seeking to mobilize supporters using social media.

Bridging Women Rights Networks

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serpil T. Yuce ◽  
Nitin Agarwal ◽  
Rolf T. Wigand ◽  
Merlyna Lim ◽  
Rebecca S. Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Cooperative Networks ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
Network Support ◽  
Diffusion Of Information ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Women Rights

In recent mass protests such as the Arab Spring and Occupy movements, protesters used social media to spread awareness, coordinate, and mobilize support. Social media-assisted collective action has attracted much attention from journalists, political observers, and researchers of various disciplines. In this article, the authors study transnational online collective action through the lens of inter-network cooperation. The authors analyze interaction and support between the women's rights networks of two online collective actions: ‘Women to Drive' (primarily Saudi Arabia) and ‘Sexual Harassment' (global). Methodologies used include: extracting each collective action's social network from blogs authored by female Muslim bloggers (23 countries), mapping interactions among network actors, and conducting sentiment analysis on observed interactions to provide a better understanding of inter-network support. The authors examine these two distinct but overlapped networks of collective actions and discover that brokering and bridging processes can facilitate the diffusion of information, coalition formation, and the expansion of the networks. The broader goal of the study is to examine the dynamics between interconnected collective actions. This research contributes to understanding the mobilization of social movements in digital activism and the role of cooperative networks in online collective action.

Propagation Phenomena in Social Media

2019 ◽  
pp. 43-66
Author(s):  
Meeyoung Cha ◽  
Fabrício Benevenuto ◽  
Saptarshi Ghosh ◽  
Krishna Gummadi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Tie Strength ◽  
Information Propagation ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
User Influence ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Different Types

Social media and blogging services have become extremely popular. Every day hundreds of millions of users share random thoughts, gossip, news, and thoughts on notable social issues. Users interact by following each other’s updates and passing along interesting pieces of information to their friends. Information therefore can diffuse widely and quickly through social links. Information propagation in networks such as Twitter and Facebook is unique, in that traditional media sources and word-of-mouth propagation coexist. The availability of digitally logged propagation events in social media helps one better understand how a wide range of factors that are essential in communication, such as user influence, tie strength, repeated exposures, mass media, and agenda setting, come into play in the way people generate and consume information in modern society. This chapter reviews the roles different types of users of social media play in information propagation as well as the resulting propagation patterns. It also discusses specific examples, including the spread of social conventions and identifying topic experts in social media, in an effort to bring about better understanding of the characteristics of propagation phenomena in large social networks.

scholarly journals Role of Nanomaterials in the Treatment of Wastewater: A Review

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 495 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asim Ali Yaqoob ◽  
Tabassum Parveen ◽  
Khalid Umar ◽  
Mohamad Nasir Mohamad Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Polluted Water ◽  
Flowing Water ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Modern Equipment ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types

Water is an essential part of life and its availability is important for all living creatures. On the other side, the world is suffering from a major problem of drinking water. There are several gases, microorganisms and other toxins (chemicals and heavy metals) added into water during rain, flowing water, etc. which is responsible for water pollution. This review article describes various applications of nanomaterial in removing different types of impurities from polluted water. There are various kinds of nanomaterials, which carried huge potential to treat polluted water (containing metal toxin substance, different organic and inorganic impurities) very effectively due to their unique properties like greater surface area, able to work at low concentration, etc. The nanostructured catalytic membranes, nanosorbents and nanophotocatalyst based approaches to remove pollutants from wastewater are eco-friendly and efficient, but they require more energy, more investment in order to purify the wastewater. There are many challenges and issues of wastewater treatment. Some precautions are also required to keep away from ecological and health issues. New modern equipment for wastewater treatment should be flexible, low cost and efficient for the commercialization purpose.

AUDIT COMMITTEE AND AUDIT CHANGE: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE EMERGING MARKET

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaitul Zaitul
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Audit Committee ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Reporting Quality ◽  
Theoretical Implication ◽  
Financial Reporting Quality ◽  
Financial Expertise ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to investigate the relationship between audit committee and audit change in listed Indonesia Company. We use four variables for audit committee that is independence, size, financial expertise and activity. Besides, this study also uses three control variables (ROA, LEV, and SIZE). By using the Binary Logic Model (BLM) with panel data for 654 observation, we find that all hypotheses are rejected which means that there is no role of audit committee in determining the audit change. However, big and company with the higher leverage is less likely to change audit, firm. This finding has a practical and theoretical implication. For practical implication, regulator or government agent can increase the financial reporting quality by improving the role of audit committee by changing related mechanism.

scholarly journals Do not Click “Like” When Somebody has Died: The Role of Norms for Mourning Practices in Social Media

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 205630511774439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna J. M. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Media Use ◽  
Journal Articles ◽  
Social Spaces ◽  
Social Media Use ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Traditional Norms

Social media constitute new social spaces where the topics of death, loss, and mourning are increasingly encountered and negotiated. Users might either engage in mourning practices themselves or be confronted with other users’ mourning during their everyday social media use. The omnipresence of mourning in social media poses challenges to the users and increases the need for norms on how to engage in online mourning practices and how to react toward expressions of grief and mourning. This article systematically reviews 25 internationally published journal articles on norms guiding mourning practices and (non-)reactions toward these practices in social media. Three different types of norms related to different forms of practices are identified in the review. Results show that norms for mourning in social media are in flux and consistently negotiated between users. However, norms for mourning in social media often adhere to traditional norms that are adapted and reconfigured.

Role of Social Media and Emotion in South Korea’s Presidential Impeachment Protests

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (01) ◽  
pp. 1950002 ◽  
Author(s):  
HEE MIN ◽  
SEONGYI YUN
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Organizational Form ◽  
Collective Actions

Previous studies have shown that social media is effective in large-scale mobilization, facilitating leaderless and more flexible forms of resistance. However, some scholars argue that this type of mobilization suffers from a lack of organizational form and collective identity. This paper shows that social media-centered networks can in fact promote collective actions powerful enough to challenge a corrupt president. We also prove the role of emotions in collective actions. Using an empirical analysis of the 2016 Presidential Impeachment Protests surrounding “Choi Soon-sil Gate,” we first demonstrate the effects of social media activities on participation in collective actions. Next, we explore the effects of anger on social media activities and participation. In short, this study reveals a new angle on social media’s influence in mobilizing collective actions by analyzing the effect of emotions on participation. In this process, social media activities are escalated by emotional outbreaks, and participation then increases throughout a given collective action.

Strong-tie discussion, political trust and political participation: A comparative study of mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan

2021 ◽  
pp. 174804852110290
Author(s):  
Minwei Ai ◽  
Nan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Political Participation ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Participatory Democracy ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Political Trust ◽  
Use Of Social Media

This study examined the relationships between social media use, strong-tie discussion, and political participation in three Chinese societies, mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Our findings showed that strong-tie discussion is positively related to collective action participation across the three societies. More importantly, strong-tie discussion mediates the effect of political use of social media on political participation in mainland China and Taiwan, but not in Hong Kong. Furthermore, we explored the moderation role of political trust, finding that it narrows down the participation gap between those who use social media more and those who use less in Hong Kong and Taiwan, while enlarges the participation gap in mainland China. This study contributes to the theory of deliberative and participatory democracy by examining the role of strong tie in Chinese contexts and suggests that strong-tie discussion may exert a more important effect on political participation in a more collectivistic society.

The effect of exposure to digital appeals to participate in collective action posted by influentials on protest information sharing: Evidence from Japan and South Korea

2021 ◽  
pp. 205789112110008
Author(s):  
Matthew D Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Center Of Mass ◽  
Social Network Dynamics ◽  
Citizenship Norms ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
Influential Individuals

Contemporary collective action theories put large horizontal digitally connected networks at the center of mass political action. They posit that information sharing among ordinary social media users makes possible new forms of rapid mass political action. However, recent research has shown that influential individuals can play a number of key roles in facilitating networked political action in seemingly leaderless movements. Still, the role of influential individuals in stimulating protest information sharing on social media is an important aspect of networked collective action that remains understudied. This study seeks to address this. Specifically, it investigates the following question: does exposure to appeals to engage in protest increase individuals’ motivation to share protest information? Drawing on evidence from an original survey experiment, this study shows that digital appeals to engage in collective action posted by influential individuals do elicit an increase in motivation to share the appeal. However, this result obtains only for Korean respondents, whereas influential appeals appear to have no effect on Japanese respondents. I argue that this difference is in part a function of different citizenship norms in the two countries, and the corresponding effects on social network dynamics. Preliminary analysis supports this interpretation, but further investigation is warranted.

Fake News

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leticia Bode ◽  
Emily K. Vraga ◽  
Kjerstin Thorson
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Fake News ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
2016 Election ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Insight Into

Chapter 7 tackles the challenges posed by misinformation campaigns and fake news, an issue of growing concern in America and around the world. Following the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, academics and pundits alike struggled to make sense of what happened, and many pointed to the role of fake news and misinformation more broadly in leading voters astray in their assessments of the two major candidates for president. This chapter draws on survey data to investigate how media use in general, and use of social media and partisan media more specifically, affected belief in six fake news stories directly following the 2016 election. The analysis assesses whether use of different types of media affected belief in misinformation—including messages congruent and incongruent with their own candidate preferences—providing insight into what was to blame for belief in fake news in the 2016 elections.

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