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This is a PDF / powerpoint of the Research Paper titled, "Women's Shrinking Political Space on Twitter: An Autoethnography from India" presented at The International Conference on Social Media & Society (#SMsociety), held from 16 to 18... more
Over the last decade, there has been an ever increasing number of citizens using online media to participate in and engage with politics. Social media sites and online blogs have enabled new opportunities for interactive and user-centered... more
En este nuevo título de Opiniones y Actitudes se presentan los principales resultados del estudio 2736 del CIS. En él se incluyen indicadores relativos tanto a los usos de internet (políticos y no políticos) como a las principales... more
This book focuses on the referendums against water privatization in Italy and explores how activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote. Investigating the relationship between social... more
ARE WE ALL #NASTYWOMEN? THE RHETORIC OF FEMINIST HASHTAGS AND RESPECTABILITY POLITICS Kimberly Lynette Goode Old Dominion University, 2018 Director: Dr. Candace Epps-Robertson In a time where misogynistic phrases from political figures... more
This article focuses on the use of Computer-Mediated Communication by the movement for global justice, with special attention to the organisations involved in the movement and its activists. We examined data collected during two... more
Over the last decade, there has been an ever increasing number of citizens using online media to participate in and engage with politics. Social media sites and online blogs have enabled new opportunities for interactive and user-centered... more
Among the many so called microblogging services that allow their respective users to describe their current status in short posts, Twitter is probably among the most popular and well known. Since its launch in 2006, Twitter use has... more
Through three case studies of online political activism on Facebook, this article conceptualizes the deployment of issue publics (Lippmann, 1993; Marres, 2005) on Facebook. We argue that issue publics on Facebook come into being through a... more
This article addresses some of the issues concerning the trans-nationalisation of collective action by focusing on the White Overalls and the Disobedients and their participation in three transnational cycles of protest that took place at... more
A partir de un análisis secundario de los microdatos procedentes del estudio 2.889 del Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas de España, pretendemos observar la posible relación entre el uso de Internet por parte de los jóvenes y sus... more
Jurgen Habermas introduced the public sphere is a model and measure for democratic transformation. His idea-while narrating the historical sequence-of the public sphere is to connect it to the story of the modern democracy in Europe. When... more
La capacidad de intervención de los individuos en el proceso comunicativo de los mass media ha visto modificado su paradigma en los últimos años. En el presente contexto sociotecnológico y cultural, cada uno de nosotros puede interferir... more
La movilizacion politica a actividades no electorales es un elemento central para entender por que unas personasparticipan en actividades politicas, mientras que otras no lo hacen. A pesar de ello, ha sido estudiadamuy raramente en... more
Although an association between congruent exposure to ideological news and affective polarization is well documented, we know little about the mechanisms underlying it. This article explores two possible mechanisms: (1) acceptance of... more
Abstract: Through three case studies of online political activism on Facebook, this article conceptualizes the deployment of issue publics (Lippmann, 1993; Marres, 2005) on Facebook. We argue that issue publics on Facebook come into being... more
In dem Beitrag wird das Problem der Wissensgenerierung, -vermittlung und des Wissensmanagements in sozialmedialen Umgebungen im Web 2.0 aufgegriffen. Es wird dabei angenommen, dass das wichtigste Element der Netzwerkgesellschaft in Bezug... more
[Ensaio para o Nexo*] Questões sobre imunização de crianças contra o novo coronavírus não são uma tentativa de promover o engajamento cívico da população em torno de uma questão controversa. Nos objetivos, na forma e na substância, o que... more
Exploring the cases of India and Ethiopia, this article develops the concept of “extreme speech” to critically analyze the cultures of vitriolic exchange on Internet-enabled media. While online abuse is largely understood as “hate... more
Ein lebendiger politischer Diskurs ist ein wesentlicher Bestandteil einer funktionierenden Demokratie. Mit steigenden Nutzerzahlen der sozialen Medien besitzt auch die politische Diskussion, die über diese Plattformen geführt wird, eine... more
Für viele westliche Demokratien wird in den letzten Jahren eine zunehmende Polarisierung der öffentlichen politischen Diskurse und des Parteienspektrums diagnostiziert. In diesem Beitrag stellen wir aktuelle Befunde zur themenspezifischen... more
- by Lutz Hagen
En esta nota de investigación se presentan los primeros datos en España sobre los usos políticos de Internet que incluyen consumo de información política, recepción de estímulos movilizadores a través de Internet, y participación política... more