Occupy Rhetoric

2018 ◽  
pp. 64-78
Author(s):  
Stephanie Vie ◽  
Daniel Carter ◽  
Jessica Meyr
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Direct Analysis ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Rhetorical Situations ◽  
Integrated Approaches ◽  
The Arab Spring

By examining three major digital activist events—the Arab Spring, the indignados movement, and Occupy Wall Street—the authors illustrate that digital activism motivates and facilitates real offline behaviors beyond slacktivism by reviewing successful strategies and outcomes that were part of each movement. Moreover, in examining the issue of slacktivism, the authors demonstrate that slacktivism is not always digital, and that the power of weak ties has demonstrable effects in protester behavior and coordination. Finally, the rhetorical situations and exigencies of these major digital activist events are examined; this is an area ripe for more direct analysis and commentary. Understanding the rhetorical situations and exigencies involved in successful digital activist events allows researchers and practitioners a better understanding of integrated approaches to public involvement using social media.

Occupy Rhetoric

2017 ◽  
pp. 179-193
Author(s):  
Stephanie Vie ◽  
Daniel Carter ◽  
Jessica Meyr
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Direct Analysis ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Rhetorical Situations ◽  
Integrated Approaches ◽  
The Arab Spring

By examining three major digital activist events—the Arab Spring, the indignados movement, and Occupy Wall Street—the authors illustrate that digital activism motivates and facilitates real offline behaviors beyond slacktivism by reviewing successful strategies and outcomes that were part of each movement. Moreover, in examining the issue of slacktivism, the authors demonstrate that slacktivism is not always digital, and that the power of weak ties has demonstrable effects in protester behavior and coordination. Finally, the rhetorical situations and exigencies of these major digital activist events are examined; this is an area ripe for more direct analysis and commentary. Understanding the rhetorical situations and exigencies involved in successful digital activist events allows researchers and practitioners a better understanding of integrated approaches to public involvement using social media.

#OccupyWallStreet

2015 ◽  
pp. 1743-1759
Author(s):  
Adam Gismondi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Activist Movements

The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, when viewed within proper historical context, can be considered part of an American tradition of higher education activism. The movement's pioneering use of social media, which was in part inspired by activists within the Arab Spring, allowed OWS to organize and disseminate information with efficiency. Social media also helped to build the connections that were made between OWS activists and those within higher education, while subsequently providing documentation of these same connections in online forums. This chapter's analysis of OWS tactics provides evidence that social media will be integral to the organization and promotion of future activist movements within higher education and beyond.

Plugged In

2018 ◽  
pp. 68-92
Author(s):  
Dino Sossi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Youth Activism ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Civic Action ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Political Upheaval ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
The Arab Spring

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter movements, protest has become the default response to social problems. As students and youth become more involved in political upheaval, they turn to the technology that surrounds them. This chapter focuses on computer-mediated youth civic action and interaction. It examines past trends in youth activism and how social media skills acquired through activism could help these same youth activists transition to the workforce.

#OccupyWallStreet

2014 ◽  
pp. 156-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Gismondi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Activist Movements

The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, when viewed within proper historical context, can be considered part of an American tradition of higher education activism. The movement’s pioneering use of social media, which was in part inspired by activists within the Arab Spring, allowed OWS to organize and disseminate information with efficiency. Social media also helped to build the connections that were made between OWS activists and those within higher education, while subsequently providing documentation of these same connections in online forums. This chapter’s analysis of OWS tactics provides evidence that social media will be integral to the organization and promotion of future activist movements within higher education and beyond.

Bread, dignity and social justice

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 478-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Arab Spring

Although they produced vastly more turmoil, the uprisings in the Arab world shared many characteristics with other early 21st-century popular protests on both the left and the right, from Spain’s Indignados and Occupy Wall Street to the anti-elite votes for Brexit and Trump. The conviction that political elites and the states they rule, which were once responsible for welfare and development, now ignore and demean the interests and concerns of ordinary citizens takes many forms, but is virtually universal. The Arab world was only one site of this discontent, but the story of the Arab Spring insurrections provides a cautionary illustration of the perils in abdication of political authority and accountability and provokes questions about how we understand historical moments when passions outstrip interests.

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.

scholarly journals Social Movement Literature and U.S. Labour: A Reassessment

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-179
Author(s):  
Keith Mann
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
New Social Movements ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
Common Features ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Arab Spring

Largely due to its conservative profile at the time, the U.S. labour movement was largely absent from modern social movement literature as it developed in response to the new social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Recent labour mobilizations such as the Wisconsin uprising and the Chicago Teachers’ strike have been part of the current international cycle of protest that includes the Arab Spring, the antiausterity movements in Greece and Spain, and Occupy Wall Street. These struggles suggest that a new labour movement is emerging that shares many common features with new social movements. This article offers a general analysis of these and other contemporary labour struggles in light of contemporary modern social movement literature. It also critically reviews assumptions about the labour movement of the 1960s and 1970s and reexamines several social movement concepts.

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