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Nov 10, 2020 · This chapter aims to re-examine the complex relationship between social media and contentious politics following the 2011 uprisings in Egypt and Syria. The chapter explores the contingent, differentiated, and contradictory roles that social media played in each of these cases.
- Abstract
- From Publics to Publicness
- From Counter to Contention
- From Arenas to Dimensions
- Temporality
- Conclusion: Analyzing and Describing Trajectories of Public Contestation
- Acknowledgement
Research on contemporary protest and social media suggests that key shifts are taking place in the articulation of public contestation. These platforms are thought to facilitate more fleeting and dynamic instances of publicness that connect actors from different geographical areas and political regimes around the globe. As mobile technologies becom...
Our first theoretical move allows us to shift attention away from the rather static notion of “the public” that lies at the heart of the concepts of “counterpublics” and “networked publics.” The concept of “counterpublics” has been developed in critical dialogue with the Habermasian notion of the public sphere, which has been a central reference po...
In our second theoretical move, we shift the focus from the notion of “counter” to “contention.” This allows us to evaluate the democratic implications of contemporary public contestation through social media. These distributed forms of contestation transcend national spheres and spaces and are, for an important part, disconnected from established ...
In our third theoretical move, we attempt to develop our understanding of the role of the media in contentious publicness. Coming from a sociological perspective, social movement research on contentious interaction tends to disregard the mediated aspects of public contention (van de Donk, Loader, Nixon, & Rucht, 2004, p. 11). While many studies inv...
Finally, we trace how digital infrastructures, discourses, and user practices shape the temporal relations of public contention. Digital media, especially social media, are thought to lead to an acceleration of social relations as they favor speed, immediacy, as well as a real (or present)-time orientation (Barassi, 2015; Kaun, 2016; Poell, 2019; W...
In this article we make three conceptual moves to develop a more effective approach for studying contemporary public contestation. To capture the dynamic character of this contestation, our first move shifts attention from publics to publicness as an interactive process of making things public. Second, we shift the attention from the “counter,” as ...
Dr Kavada's research on the Occupy Movement was supported by a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (Ref: MD130045).
- Anastasia Kavada, Thomas Poell
- 2021
Sep 1, 2010 · The authors propose a more complex approach that looks at the role of new media in contentious politics from five interlocking levels of analysis: individual transformation, intergroup relations, collective action, regime policies, and external attention.
May 30, 2024 · Annett Heft, Kilian Buehling, Xixuan Zhang, Dominik Schindler and Miriam Milzner examine conspiracy-related debates and highlight the impact of social media on contentious politics. In the absence of journalistic filters, political opinions and news are diffused through a hybrid and interconnected digital sphere.
Apr 10, 2012 · We have developed methods for mapping networks and inventorying the types of digital media that enable actions and information to flow through them. Showing how networks are constituted in part by technology enables us to move across levels of action that are often difficult to theorize.
- W. Lance Bennett, Alexandra Segerberg
- 2013
Apr 1, 2021 · This chapter aims to re-examine the complex relationship between social media and contentious politics following the 2011 uprisings in Egypt and Syria. The chapter explores the contingent,...
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Much questioned when it emerged, the contentious politics approach has ripened to influence work on intra-movement relations, on links between movements and parties, the radicalization of movements, civil war mechanisms, and escalation into revolutionary situations.
