Tweet Storms as Social Movements? Managing Stakeholders in the Social Media Era

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 17440
Author(s):  
Yan Chen ◽  
Joel Andrus ◽  
Rhonda K. Reger
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Online Activism of Social Community in Handling Social Issues in The City Of Malang

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Tia Subekti ◽  
Irza Khurun'in
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
World Order ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Social Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Motorcycle Taxi ◽  
The City

his paper aims to see the formation of social movements in Malang addressing social issues in Malang. Some of the movements that become the focus of this paper are the Malang Care Community or ASLI Malang and Social and Humanist Society in Malang. Interestingly, the communities are doing their activities online and using social media as the main instrument of movement. If in general online media based-communities are only informative, it is different with Malang. Here the communities perform real actions such as social activities. For examples: social aids for victims of natural disasters, street children, poor people who need help, and other problems. Last but not least is the emergence of free motorcycle-taxi riders that arose due to the protest of angkot (city transport) drivers toward online motorcycle taxi resulting in an angkot drivers’ strike. The movement was able to collect motorcycle-rider volunteers up to 700 motorcycles and 80 cars. The 4 days activity was the culmination of the social community awakening which arises in response to socio-dynamic in society The emergence of various social communities is the marker of the rise of civilian powers and the strengthening of non-state actors. The social community as a form of movement becomes an alternative for civil society to engage in social issues, rather than to join political organizations such as political parties or interest groups whose main interests are political interests. Charles Tilly (2004) defines social movements as an organized public collective effort to make certain claims to the intended authorities. Sidney Tarrow (2004) explains that social movements are generally born from social problems that lead to contentious. The orientation of social movements is to create a world order of social justice. Furthermore, in data collection, the authors conducted in-depth interviews, observations, and documentation. By using social movement perspective, the main argument in this paper is, first, social media is the social community's main strategy for activism. Second, the pattern of social movements that arise is departing from social concerns of civil society in the city of Malang in view of social issues. Third, the formation of activism conducted by the social community in the City of Malang City aims to respond to social problem

scholarly journals Covid-19 dan Gerakan Sosial Perempuan

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32
Author(s):  
Ujang Wardi ◽  
Elfia Elfia
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Women's Groups ◽  
Women’S Groups ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Institutions ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
The Government ◽  
Mass Actions

This study explains how social movements are initiated by women's groups. The movement carried out penetrates various spaces in the social environment and even traditional institutions as groups that have authority. Through a descriptive approach and in-depth interview techniques, this study answers questions about how women's groups carry out social movements by constructing the issue of the non-transparent distribution of Covid-19 aid. Thus, the mobilizing structure, which is carried out systematically, attracts traditional institutions (ninik mamak) in the vortex of conflict. This study found that the sources of issues from social movements carried out by women's groups were (a) information from the deputy governor regarding the distribution of Covid-19 aid, (b) nepotism and collusion from the nagari government. Two framing issues (framing) are then packaged through social media to attract the power to carry out mass actions (demonstrations). This study concludes that the demonstration of women giving birth is a new policy related to the distribution of Covid-19 by the government.

scholarly journals Media Sosial dan Prospek Muslim Kosmopolitan: Konstruksi & Peran Masyarakat Siber pada Aksi Bela Islam

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Iswandi Syahputra
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Universal Principles ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic

This article discusses Indonesian cyber society active­ties and its configuration on social media which considered being able to encourage social movements, for instance Defen­ding Islam Action, subsequently well known as ‘Defending Islam Action 212’. This article argues that netizens' activities on social media turned out to involve various class variants and social status and are able to encourage the ' Defending Islam Action’. Moreover, the social formation and activities of netizens on the social media constitute the prospects for the social construction of the cosmopolitan Muslim community in Indonesia. The portrait of Indonesian cosmopolitan Muslim is seen as a cong­re­gation of citizens compelled by their religious awareness, regardless of social, political, economic boundaries and even inter-religiosity which reveres universal principles of humanity.

scholarly journals Social Protests in Latin America in the Focus of Regional Internet Media and Social Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
E. Kosevich
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Research University ◽  
Latin Americans ◽  
News Websites ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Protests ◽  
Social Media Platforms

Received 10.03.2020. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the information on current social protests, which was published in the leading Latin American news websites and actively discussed on the social media platforms to identify the main causes of public discontent and the main problems discussed by Latin Americans. The first part of the paper provides an overview of the materials on the social movements of the fall of 2019, which were published in the news websites, which are the most popular in Latin America, and have the greatest influence, and the biggest Internet traffic volume. The second part is devoted to an overview of hashtags on the topic of mass protests that have gained huge popularity among Latin American users on the biggest social media platforms. A review of informational articles on the autumn social movements, which were published in the leading Latin American newspapers, revealed the main points of view on the factors and causes of these events, and the main problems discussed by Latin Americans. An appeal to various sources, both the countries in which the protests took place and the states that have passed such a crisis, will help readers to see the current socio-political situation in a new way. Acknowledgements. Support from the Individual Research Program of the School of World economy and International Affairs at National Research University – Higher School of Economics is gratefully acknowledged.

Activism in the Digital Age

2021 ◽  
pp. 99-122
Author(s):  
Laura Holgado-Ruiz ◽  
José Ramón Saura ◽  
Beatriz Rodríguez Herráez
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
User Generated Content ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Protests ◽  
Activist Movements ◽  
General Society ◽  
Theory Framework

Social movements have been transformed in the last decade by social networks, where the dynamics of the social protests have evolved and have been structured and viralized through social media. They are no longer just conversations between activists that stay on social platforms. The cyberactivism that takes place on Twitter or Instagram can also play a significant role in general society by influencing government decision making or shaping the relationships between citizens. In this chapter, the authors explore the main activist movements that took place in social media in the last decade: Occupy, BlackLivesMatter, and MeToo. The proposed approach used in this study facilitates the comparison of each movement while focusing on the user-generated content in social media. This study suggests the presence of four major categories to frame the content generated by the activists. The chapter concludes with the identification of three different approaches to the research of a future research agenda that should be considered for the study of the social movements from the UGC theory framework.

scholarly journals Media Sosial dan Prospek Muslim Kosmopolitan: Konstruksi & Peran Masyarakat Siber pada Aksi Bela Islam

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Iswandi Syahputra
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Muslim Community ◽  
Social Formation ◽  
Universal Principles ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic

This article discusses Indonesian cyber society active­ties and its configuration on social media which considered being able to encourage social movements, for instance Defen­ding Islam Action, subsequently well known as ‘Defending Islam Action 212’. This article argues that netizens' activities on social media turned out to involve various class variants and social status and are able to encourage the ' Defending Islam Action’. Moreover, the social formation and activities of netizens on the social media constitute the prospects for the social construction of the cosmopolitan Muslim community in Indonesia. The portrait of Indonesian cosmopolitan Muslim is seen as a cong­re­gation of citizens compelled by their religious awareness, regardless of social, political, economic boundaries and even inter-religiosity which reveres universal principles of humanity.

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.

Resistance and Protests Through the “Selfie”

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Yasmin Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
The Self ◽  
Material Body ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Attention Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Resistance ◽  
Embodied Self

Conjoining images of digital self-portraits (i.e., ‘selfies') with protests and resistance recasts the self through new paradigms of enquiry in the social media landscape. The appropriation of digital self-imagery to express protest and partake in social movements and resistance personalises and individuates collective resistance, and, in the process, the ‘self-image' becomes a tool of embodied self-expression as well as solidarity imbuing the ‘self' through new modalities of social relations where the material body is co-opted into a politics of protest without de-centring the self. This chapter examines the phenomenon of selfie-activism within the social media era where the ‘visual' turn of instant imagery lends new forms of the attention economy to protests and campaigns, pulling physically bound protests into virtual and voyeuristic forms online where they perform both to the politics of protest and the demands of semiotic capitalism.

#BlackProtest from the web to the streets and back: Feminist digital activism in Poland and narrative potential of the hashtag

2020 ◽  
pp. 135050682097690
Author(s):  
Anna Nacher
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Black Protest ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Web

In this article, I would like to take a somewhat closer look at the politics of hashtags surrounding wave of street actions known as Black Protest (Czarny Protest), held nation-wide in Poland on October 2016. Analysing the use of social media as the form of digital activism, I strive at both mitigating the fallacy of digital dualism and demystifying the notion of ‘Twitter revolutions’. The term was popularized by over-enthusiastic accounts of the social movements between 2009 and 2011. I propose to see the employment of social media platforms as the form of weak opposition and to some extent, to explain its efficiency by the ability to reclaim and mobilize the narrative power of hashtags. ‘Weak’ here means everyday, often mundane, and hence under-recognized acts as opposed to activity considered ‘heroic’ and placed in the spotlight, with all gender-based ideological and interpretative undercurrents associated with such a juxtaposition.

scholarly journals Online Social Movement: Adopsi Teknologi Informasi dalam Melakukan Gerakan Sosial di Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Ahmad Ismail ◽  
Hardiyanti Munsi ◽  
Amril Hans
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Real Space ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Social

This article aims to explain whether the social movements carried out on the internet are limitedto click activism or merely mere symbolic resistance, or even beyond that? The case of the social movement raised in this study is the Akademi Berbagi Movement based on the internet, especially social media. the movement that combines online and offline gives its own nuances in doing social movements. This study used a qualitative approach with the method of connected ethnography carried out for 5 months. From the results of the research, the Akademi Berbagi Movement is one of the forms of the birth of civil society. The movement that combines online and offline has provided the context, validation and attachment of more participation by volunteers in carrying out social movements, thus giving birth to what is called 'online social movements'. This also complements the concept that Nugroho (2011) refers to as "click activism", with the case of the movement raised in this study, social movements carried out on the internet exceed what is called click activism, and volunterism is done more than just being involved in movement online, but volunterism is also done in an offline context so that this movement is not just "click" but also provides real space for movement.

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