scholarly journals Exploring Social Media Use and Civic Engagement on the Discussion of Antinuclear Issue

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-96
Author(s):  
Cathy S. Lin ◽  
Feng Yang Kuo ◽  
Ching Ya Hung
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Environmental Issue ◽  
Stigma Consciousness ◽  
Self Presentation ◽  
Social Opinions

Social media has brought a new communication revolution allowing users to connect, share, and discuss public & social opinions with others. The new look at social media has shaped social movements, and provides a fair voice to anyone who can be heard online. This research explores individuals’ civic engagement concerning the environmental issue of nuclear energy on social media. Nuclear energy is a global, social, and environmental issue, the research variables included in this study are self-presentation efficacy, fear of social isolation and stigma consciousness. The findings from this study will have implications for both research and practices, especially help understanding the civic engagement of social movement on social media.

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.

Bridging Between Cyber Politics and Collective Dynamics of Social Movement

2019 ◽  
pp. 160-172
Author(s):  
Kazuhiko Shibuya
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Real World ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Collective Dynamics ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Systemic Risks ◽  
Political Actions

The author argued that the advent of social media summoned the collective dynamics of democracy of the citizens, by the citizens, and for the citizens. Such patterns using social media can readily alter the form of social movements, allowing their mutual interconnection and shaping the enclaves of networked clustering. Social media offer a new paradigm of democracy that encourages engagement and participation in both cyber and actual political actions for ordinary citizens. Nevertheless, little is known about co-occurrence and linkages between cyber and real-world actions by numerous participants. Consequently, this issue should be investigated with open questions related to the following points: 1) social institutional matters related to legitimation crises caused by social movements, 2) co-occurrence and linkages of collective dynamics between cyber and actual political actions, 3) enlargement of participants in social movement, and 4) systemic risks from local to international affairs.

Social Media and Social Movements

2021 ◽  
pp. 1096-1105
Author(s):  
Sheldondra J. Brown ◽  
Grace M. Babcock ◽  
Monica Bixby Radu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Sociological Theory ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sociological Research

Because of the increasing importance of the link between social media and social movements, recent research attempts to bridge the gap between media studies and sociological research on social movements. Yet, questions remain unanswered. For example, does social media help facilitate activism that leads to social change? What are the strengths and limitations of social media in creating and maintaining a social movement? This chapter explores these questions and others, paying attention to the #Blacklivesmatter hashtag and social movement, which scholars argue is a power force demanding social change in America. This chapter introduces the concepts of social media and social movements and reviews recent literature examining how social media plays an active role in creating and encouraging social movements. This chapter also considers how sociological theory can provide a better understanding of what social media means for modern social change and concludes with suggestions for future research.

Coloring social change: Humor, politics, and social movements

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 485-511
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Takovski
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Free Expression ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
On Line ◽  
Present Case Study

AbstractAs many social movements demonstrate, humor can serve as an important resource to resist oppression, fight social injustice and bring social change. Existing research has focused on humor’s role within social movements and its positive effects on the free expression of criticism, reduction of fear, communication, mobilization of participants and so on. However, the current literature on the activist use of humor also expresses some reservations about its political efficacy. While humor may steam off the energy necessary to counteract oppression and injustice, other tools of achieving the same political ends have been successfully deployed, primarily social media. Building upon this research, the present case study explores the 2016 Macedonian social movement called the Colorful Revolution. In particular, through the analysis of social media and activists’ reflection on the political use of humor, this case study examines how on-line humor contributed to the emergence and development of the movement. Factoring in activists’ opinions on the role of humor in society and especially in movements, while also paying attention to the role of social media, this case study tends to re-interpret the role of humor in the totality of the actions and circumstances underpinning the development of a social movement.

Citizen-Driven International Networks and Globalization of Social Movements on Twitter

2016 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qinfeng Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
National Income ◽  
World System ◽  
World Systems Theory ◽  
International Network ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
The World

Social media offer an avenue for the formation of citizen-driven global networks that are vital to mobilizing international support and curating global public discourse in social movements. This study looks into the global flow of information and communication about Hong Kong's Occupy Central Movement with a focus on the country/territory-level international network that emerged on Twitter. Drawing on the world systems theory and the literature on social movement, it examines whether the globalization of a local social movement via social media is circumscribed by the existing order of the world system (i.e., from the developed core countries/territories to the developing peripheral). It focuses its analysis on the network structure and the predictors of countries/territories’ centrality in the network. Findings of the social network analysis show that the structure of the international network still follows the existing order of the world system to a large extent. It is further supported by the result of the multivariate analysis that national income, a widely used benchmark for determining a country/territory's position in the world economy, is significantly and substantially related to centrality. However, national income does not have the largest predicting power. Instead, a country/territory's level of political grievances is found to be the strongest predictor. In addition, countries/territories with high Internet penetration rates tend to have high-centrality scores, and yet the effect size is smaller than the other predictors.

Social Media and Fake News Impact on Social Movements

2021 ◽  
pp. 40-56
Author(s):  
Heather C. Webb ◽  
Manal Emam
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Fake News ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
The Impact

Social media has become the favored digital communication channel and offers many advantages, such as spreading information faster than conventional media. However, social media's disadvantages have been the increase in fake news driven mainly by the growing digitalization of information and the increase of deepfakes. Nowadays, fake news has a new scope beyond traditional, cold war-style disinformation because of its unprecedented capacity to mobilize an assortment of news and media simultaneously. The impact of social media and fake news so dramatically impacted social movements in both Tunisia and Egypt that it is often characterized as the first social media-influenced social movement. These movements became known as the Arab Spring, which was mainly in response to oppressive regimes and low standard of living. This chapter focuses on the lead-up and impact of social media, and online-activists that influenced the Arab Spring. The authors use a narrative and exploratory research approach to conceptually understand digital communication's role and impact throughout the Arab Spring.

scholarly journals Network Society and Social Movement: Message Reception among Instagram Users

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Sri Yuliarti ◽  
Muhnizar Siagian ◽  
Andri Kusuma Wardaningtyas
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Network Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
The Social ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Code Type ◽  
Message Reception

In the dynamics of a state, any change can happen through a social movement as an initial stage.  Studies about it have been conducted since the 1940s. Nowadays, as the shift of the era involves communication technology, the model of the social movement has changed as well. Collectivity dominated the social movement in the past, but connectivity is more prominent nowadays as the network society era emerges. The purpose of this research is to explore the social movement in the network society era through an Instagram account, @ketimbang.ngemis.yogyakarta along with the message reception among the Instagram users. Using Stuart Hall’s theory of message reception, this study employed snowball as the technique sampling. After analyzing five posts on @ketimbang.ngemis.yogyakarta Instagram account and having an interview with eight informants, there were two conclusions. It is found that there is a shift in the model of social movement. In the past, social movements were dominated by demonstrations, in which a group of people gathered in a particular place, and relied on oratory skills. Meanwhile, at present, many social movements have made use of social media, one of which is Instagram. The photos in Instagram are used to show marginalized groups which can attract sympathy, empathy, and attention of social media users as an initial stage to the social movement. Moreover, the social media users tend to be a negotiated code type in the reception of social movement message.

scholarly journals How Cultural Environments Shape Online Sentiment Toward Social Movements: Place Character and Support for Feminism

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Scarborough ◽  
Allison Suppan Helmuth
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Topic Modeling ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Online Discourse ◽  
Place Character ◽  
The Relationship

This study explores the relationship between offline and online contexts in social movement discourse. We test whether local place character—the cultural reputations, values, and ideals associated with a particular location—predict support for feminism expressed on Twitter. Applying topic modeling to a unique corpus describing cities’ cultural reputations, we identify five cultural attributes of U.S. cities that constitute their place character. Then, we use these measures to predict the percentage of tweets that are positive toward feminism in each location. The results indicate that while social media may connect people from geographically distant areas, online discourse is still heavily influenced by the local spaces where users reside. Cities with a place character of Revitalization have more positive Twitter sentiment toward feminism, while areas known as Local Hubs for shopping and leisure are more negative. These findings contribute to social movement scholarship by highlighting one way that offline and online contexts are connected. Far from transcending local geographies, social movement discourse taking place online remains shaped by the cultural environment where it originates.

Two Frances through the prism of social movements

2021 ◽  
pp. 113-135
Author(s):  
Daniel Bourmaud
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Gender Issues ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Public Policy Making ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Physical Presence

Two types of social movements characterized by the causes they advocate for and the means implemented, without fully excluding each other, are currently sweeping across France. Facing a category of social movement embodied primarily by the figure of the «Gilets jaunes» whose material claims dominate, another type of movement is gaining strength focusing mainly on promoting principles that fall more under values and «vivre ensemble» (living together), such as gender issues and those concerning Islam. These differences translate into a differentiated use of the means of struggle. The former primarily rely on their physical presence in the streets and the latter on their pervasiveness in cyberspace through social media. This divergence affects their ability to make their goals prevail. Social movements prioritizing nonmaterial causes aligned with the ruling elite’s – the elite bloc – culture and ideology manage easily to place their actions on the Government’s agenda. However, the movements of «peripheral France» such as the «Gilets Jaunes» find a faint echo among the ruling class and are marginalized in terms of public policy- making.

Bridging Between Cyber Politics and Collective Dynamics of Social Movement

2018 ◽  
pp. 3538-3548
Author(s):  
Kazuhiko Shibuya
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Real World ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Collective Dynamics ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Systemic Risks ◽  
Political Actions

The author argued that the advent of social media summoned the collective dynamics of democracy of the citizens, by the citizens, and for the citizens. Such patterns using social media can readily alter the form of social movements, allowing their mutual interconnection and shaping the enclaves of networked clustering. Social media offer a new paradigm of democracy that encourages engagement and participation in both cyber and actual political actions for ordinary citizens. Nevertheless, little is known about co-occurrence and linkages between cyber and real world actions by numerous participants. Consequently, this issue should be investigated with open questions related to the following points. 1. Social institutional matters related to legitimation crises caused by social movements 2. Co-occurrence and Linkages of collective dynamics between cyber and actual political actions 3. Enlargement of participants in social movement 4. Systemic Risks from Local to International Affairs.

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