Sökning: "Networked social movements"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 11 uppsatser innehållade orden Networked social movements.
6. Feminism and media, opportunities and limitations of digital practices
Magister-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Sammanfattning : Researches done on social movements and media are often conducted at a micro-level, focusing on the individual activity (Klandermans 1997), or the macro level, excluding the meso level, linking the two first levels together. Furthermore, studies focusing on the relation between feminism as a social movement and media often neglect to identify the opportunities and the limitations of such an intersection. LÄS MER
7. Not One (Woman) Less Social Media Activism to end Violence Against Women: The case of the Feminist Movement ‘Ni Una Menos’
Magister-uppsats, Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)Sammanfattning : The struggle to end violence against women and girls has long been a priority topic for women’s and feminist movements in Latin America. Lately, since the changes in the new media landscape (Castells 2015; Lievrouw, 2013) with the increased use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, the way women and feminist movements advocate their intentions are changing (Harcourt, 2013; Mathos, 2017). LÄS MER
8. Here to be Heard : Digital feminist engagement with #MeTooinChina
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskapSammanfattning : This study analyses Chinese people's engagement in #MeTooinChina against sexual assault and patriarchal norms in Chinese society by asking three main research questions: 1) Why and how do Chinese people engage with #MeTooinChina? 2) What challenges are they faced with in their engagement and how do these challenges influence their continuous engagement with #MeTooinChina? 3) How do they reflect on their engagement and evaluate the outcomes of #MeTooinChina? Theoretically the thesis draws on research into digital social movements, in particular in relation to feminist movements, as well as theories on the network society and how social media is used for political engagement. The notion of political engagement as based in emotions and affects is discussed in particular. LÄS MER
9. The spatio-temporal properties of Twitter users during the Sandy Hurricane
Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informationsteknologiSammanfattning : The wide-scale deployment of networked communication and sensing devices, e.g. phones and tablets, provides a previously unimaginable amount of information about people's environment and movements. These devices often have access to high accuracy localization technology, such as GPS and Wi-Fi/cell tower localization. LÄS MER
10. The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement and the Networked Public Sphere : How to avoid a Convergent Crisis
Magister-uppsats, Medier och kommunikationSammanfattning : Communications scholarship faces a convergent crisis. Research on networks includes the role of information networks in supporting social movements, networked civil society, the information society, and new forms of communication. LÄS MER
