scholarly journals Effective voice: Beyond exit and affect in online communities

2021 ◽  
pp. 146144482110440
Author(s):  
Seth Frey ◽  
Nathan Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Direct Control ◽  
Institutional Governance ◽  
Binding Effect ◽  
Community Evolution

Online communities provide ample opportunities for user self-expression but generally lack the means for average users to exercise direct control over community policies. This article sets out to identify a set of strategies and techniques through which the voices of participants might be better heard through defined mechanisms for institutional governance. Drawing on Albert O. Hirschman’s distinction between “exit” and “voice” in institutional life, it introduces a further distinction between two kinds of participation: effective voice, as opposed to the far more widespread practices of affective voice. Effective voice is a form of individual or collective speech that brings about a binding effect according to transparent processes. Platform developers and researchers might explore this neglected form of voice by introducing mechanisms for authority and accountability, collective action, and community evolution.

Peer-to-peer online voice as emergent collective action

2021 ◽  
pp. 002218562110319
Author(s):  
Michael Walker
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Information Sharing ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Online Discussion ◽  
Peer To Peer ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Nature Of Information ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Worker Voice ◽  
Pain Points

E-voice is now a common form of worker voice. Existing scholarship has focused on e-voice’s potential for grievance-airing and resistance; however, much work-oriented online discussion is not change oriented but more in the nature of information sharing and mutual aid. Even when not deliberately intended to be, mutual aid discussion can be an exercise of worker voice because it identifies and highlights pain points in the workplace, spreads awareness of these through online communities and constitutes an attempt to improve an objectionable state of affairs. As otherwise voiceless workers discover and act on these shared ideas en masse, they create an emergent form of collective action.

"Feel That You Are Doing Something": Participatory Culture Civics

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neta Kligler-Vilenchik ◽  
Sangita Shresthova
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Harry Potter ◽  
Participatory Culture ◽  
Peer Networks ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Invisible Children

Young people’s civic engagement through online communities and peer networks has received increased at- tention in recent years. This paper examines groups rooted within participatory cultures, which mobilize their participants toward explicit civic goals. We draw on our research of Invisible Children and the Harry Potter Alliance—two media-centric, youth-oriented, participatory organizations—to identify their distinctive prac- tices. Building on our analysis, we propose that both organizations engage in “Participatory Culture Civics” (PCC) as they support organized collective action towards civic goals, while building on the affordances of participatory culture. We describe three innovative PCC practices employed by these groups: Build Communities, Tell Stories, and Produce Media. The organizations’ ability to combine civic goals with the pleasures of participatory culture allows them to successfully engage young people. However, both organizations struggle to balance between the creative and community-based tenets of participatory culture, and the focused, product-driven goals of a civic engagement organization.

Trolls and Hacktivists

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica L. Beyer
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Online Communities ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Community Mobilization ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
History Of ◽  
Us Presidential Election

Online communities have long been the sites of political mobilization. Work on these communities in relation to politics sits at the intersection of the study of social movements broadly as well as hacktivism specifically; anthropological and cultural studies of online culture, including trolling; and work focused on the affordances of social platforms. Drawing on four linked cases of online community mobilization—4chan and trolling culture, Anonymous, Gamergate, and the 2016 US presidential election—the author discusses this varied theory and its ability to contribute to the understanding of online communities as a political and social phenomenon. The author illustrates that there are distinct repertoires of contention that emerged from 4chan prior to 2008 that subsequent movements refined and adapted. The author argues that 4chan’s affordances created a cultural identity that was durable, with shared discourse, affirmation of group values, and a history of collective action that served as a base for mobilization. These modes of collective action, including organized harassment, have since been adopted by a range of political actors. Future research should address questions of movement durability, emergence, and the interplay between internet affordances and offline contexts.

Contractual Background of Sovereign Debt Litigation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayk Kupelyants
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
The State ◽  
Binding Effect ◽  
Collective Action Clauses

Chapter 2 set out the panoply of collective action clauses found in sovereign debt documentation, and in particular majority action clauses which allow the majority of bondholders to modify the obligations of the State with binding effect on the minority of bondholders. Chapter 2 also examines other types of collective action clauses.

2 Contractual Background of Sovereign Debt Litigation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kupelyants Hayk
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Sovereign Debt ◽  
The State ◽  
Binding Effect ◽  
Collective Action Clauses

Chapter 2 set out the panoply of collective action clauses found in sovereign debt documentation, and in particular majority action clauses which allow the majority of bondholders to modify the obligations of the State with binding effect on the minority of bondholders. Chapter 2 also examines other types of collective action clauses.

Ideas and Leaders in Contentious Politics: One Parish Priest in El Salvador's Popular Movement

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 76-101
Author(s):  
PETER M. SANCHEZ
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Parish Priest ◽  
Historical Moment ◽  
Resource Mobilisation ◽  
The Church

AbstractThis paper examines the actions of one Salvadorean priest – Padre David Rodríguez – in one parish – Tecoluca – to underscore the importance of religious leadership in the rise of El Salvador's contentious political movement that began in the early 1970s, when the guerrilla organisations were only just beginning to develop. Catholic leaders became engaged in promoting contentious politics, however, only after the Church had experienced an ideological conversion, commonly referred to as liberation theology. A focus on one priest, in one parish, allows for generalisation, since scores of priests, nuns and lay workers in El Salvador followed the same injustice frame and tactics that generated extensive political mobilisation throughout the country. While structural conditions, collective action and resource mobilisation are undoubtedly necessary, the case of religious leaders in El Salvador suggests that ideas and leadership are of vital importance for the rise of contentious politics at a particular historical moment.

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