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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Digital activism"”.
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Locating the Indian Gendered Subaltern on Digital Platforms: Digital Activism in #section377 and #metooindia
… examines the relationship between technology and activism in India, and the role that digital infrastructures play in the development of gendered digital protest. Through a combination of textual discourse and visual analysis, and critical digital humanities, feminist and queer frameworks, I study …
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Political organisation, leadership and communication in authoritarian settings: Digital activism in Belarus and Russia
… when they express critical political views using digital media. The regime may monitor their activities, censor their speech or persecute them. Despite these challenges, politically-active citizens organise outside of traditional hierarchical arrangements to advocate for pro-democracy changes. I …
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Political Memes as Tools of Dissent and Alternative Digital Activism in the Russian-language Twitter
… recent theory on the Internet memes, tactical activism, connective action, carnivalesque resistance, individual action frames and creativity for politics. Internet memes have proven to be a popular vehicle of critical political communication in Russian social networks due to the ease of …
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The Compressed Modernity of Legalizing Same-sex Marriage in Taiwan: Digital Activism, Human Rights Discourse, and Intertwined Sexual, Political and National Identities
… social movements, Taiwanese <em>tongzhi</em> activism has experienced a “compressed modernity” (Chang, 1999, 2010a, 2010b), which accelerates cultural and social transformations. Although Taiwanese academia has been significantly influenced by queer studies as a form of western knowledge …
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Communicative freedom in a digital democracy: political and economic resistance to freedom of speech and the rise of digital activism in South Africa
… from a physical, industrialised world into a digital, networked society. South Africa is trying to keep pace with technological advances while still clinging to archaic forms of governance. This project considers whether these archaic forms of governance and older forms of communication …
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#BlackLivesMatter: How a hashtag maintains a movement: A content analysis of the Black Lives Matter hashtag on Twitter
… society is consumed by social media; thus, digital activism is becoming a prevalent way of advocating for and establishing social progress. The purpose of this study was to identify the frequency of engagement with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter by Twitter users. The data collection consisted …
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The Effects of Social Media on Democratization
… more aware and interested in the new uses of digital technologies in movements for political change. The technologies have given more people and groups access to information and the tools needed to increase productivity and communication than in the past. As a result of these new digital …
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Activism via Social Networking: A case study of Urban Indian Women Facebook Users
Several cases of digital activism via social networking sites (SNS) have recently appeared worldwide which specifically address women’s issues. These instances point to the fact that women are active on the Internet and use SNSs (such as Facebook) to promote causes and garner support for issues as …
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Security and Privacy in Unified Communication Architectures with Focus on Online Real-Time Meeting Scheduling and Joining
… COVID-19 pandemic. It has become essential for digital activism and in broader societal contexts. For example, undetectability, anonymity, and genuine end-to-end encryption are not always provided by commonly used UC platforms. Digital activists unaware of the associated risks of using UC …
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Hartazgo: Understanding how #YoTeCreo emerged in Venezuela
This thesis explores how digital feminist activism sparked, using as a case study #YoTeCreo movement in Venezuela. Using the FemMesh to connect feminists knowledges, nodes and entanglements together with a transnationalized intersectionality, I discuss how this digital activism occurred locally. As …
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Digital Echoes of a Movement: Analyzing the Evolution of the WomanLifeFreedom Movement through Hashtag Analysis
This research investigates the digital activism surrounding the WomanLifeFreedom (WLF) movement on X (formerly Twitter), a significant socio-political uprising in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022. The study analyzes the use of the hashtag #MahsaAmini and co-occurrence …
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Towards a Poetics of the Digital Protest Text: Insights from the #BlackLivesMatter Movement (2013-) and Anti-CAA and Anti-NRC Protests (2019-2020)
With the rise of digital activism in the global protest cycle, it is imperative to formulate theoretical frameworks, or a poetics, of the role digital texts play in creating, sustaining, and outliving protest. For all its ubiquitous use, the form has been slippery to conceptualize; its literary …
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#ZimbabweanLivesMatter vs #ThisFlag: A comparative discourse analysis of two social media movements in Zimbabwe
… this study justifies that the success of digital activism is that it transcends geo-political borders and institutional constraints enforced by government, particularly as such constraints have continued despite the change in national leadership.
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Information and communication techologies and the urban transformation of South African informal settlement communities
… much to be desired. Within the larger theme of digital activism, three main research areas were identified and explored: the appropriation of ICTs by the SJC’s field staff, the use of their Web 2.0 based social networking sites (SNS) in their advocacy work and digital mapping of portable …
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Recontextualising Viral Justice: Social Media, Feminist Connective Action and the 2021 Injection Spiking Incidents.
… absence of attention to online virality within digital activism scholarship, this MPhil research project interrogates what it means for a social justice issue to “go viral” through the case study of the 2021 injection spiking phenomenon. In doing so, this work reconciles a novel appraisal of the …
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“The Journey of Relocation,” A Reflective Autoethnography, Digital Story Telling, and Netnography: Experiences of South Asian Immigrants in Canada
… of Relocation,” A Reflective Autoethnography, Digital Storytelling, and Netnography: Experiences of South Asian Immigrants in Canada, explores the multifaceted narratives of South Asian migrants navigating cultural, social, and systemic landscapes in Canada. By employing a hybrid qualitative …
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Measuring the Connective Action of Black Lives Matter Activists: A Psychometric Investigation into Twitter Data
… coining terms such as participatory action, digitally mediated action, computer-mediated communication, issue-based organization, and what I focus on in this project, connective action. Building on the ideas percolating across the literary landscape at the time, Bennett and Segerberg (2012) …
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To Bridge or to Bond? Exploring the Impact of Facebook Use on Protest Participation in Moldova
… broader theories about protest participation and digital activism in the post-Soviet space, which is vital when understanding non-Western contexts.
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