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Far from being neutral, social media platforms – such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and WeChat – possess their own material characteristics, which shape how people engage, protest, resist, and struggle. This innovative collection advances the notion of social media materialities to draw attention to the ways in which the wires and silicon, data streams and algorithms, user and programming interfaces, business models and terms of service steer contentious practices and, inversely, how technologies and economic models are handled and performed by users. The key question is how the tension between social media’s techno-commercial infrastructures and activist agency plays out in protest. Addressing this, the volume goes beyond singular empirical examples and focuses on the characteristics of protest and social media materialities, offering further conceptualizations and guidance for this emerging field of research. The various contributions explore a wide variety of activist projects, protests, and regions, ranging from Occupy in the USA to environmental protests in China, and from the Mexican Barrio Nómada to the Copenhagen-based activist television channel TV Stop (1987–2005).

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Author:   Mette Mortensen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) ,  Christina Neumayer (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) ,  Thomas Poell (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.276kg
ISBN:  

9781138093089

ISBN 10:   1138093084
Pages:   164
Publication Date:   07 December 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Social media materialities and protest Christina Neumayer, Mette Mortensen and Thomas Poell PART I: Spatiality I post, you rally, she tweets… and we all occupy: The challenges of hybrid spatiality in the Occupy Wall Street mobilizations Alice Mattoni Rethinking networked solidarity Sky Croeser Nomads of cyber-urban Space: Media hybridity as resistance Emiliano Treré PART II: Temporality (Social) media time, connective memory and activist television histories: The case of TV Stop (1987–2005) Tina Askanius Facebook’s communication protocols, algorithmic filters, and protest: A critical socio-technical perspective Lorenzo Coretti and Daniele Pica Social media as activist archives Christina Neumayer and David M. Struthers PART III: Platformization Theorizing civic engagement and social media: The case of the ""refugee crisis"" and volunteer organising in Sweden Julie Uldam and Anne Kaun The materiality of clouds: Beyond a platform-specific critique of contemporary activism Stefania Milan ""Please leave my news feed alone"": Exploring user protest against algorithmic personalization Martina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke Evolving digital repertoires of contention in transitional societies: The case of China Jun Liu Afterword: Lessons and puzzles in studying social media materialities and protest Alexandra Segerberg and W. Lance Bennett"

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"Mette Mortensen is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the Principal Investigator of the collective research project ""Images of Conflict, Conflicting Images"" (2017–2021) and author or editor of seven books, including Eyewitness Images and Journalism (2015). Christina Neumayer is Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. Her research focusses on the role of media technologies in political conflict. She has published on digital media and activism, social movements, racism, and propaganda. Thomas Poell is Senior Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research focuses on digital platforms and public communication. He co-authored The Platform Society (2018), and co-edited Global Cultures of Contestation (2017) and The Sage Handbook of Social Media (2018)."

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