Feminist Changes in Israel

Moore, Dahlia

doi:10.1007/978-1-4419-9869-9_4

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“…Despite its profound effects, the neoliberal transition produced relatively low levels of public reaction. Israel is an “enlisted society”, and issues of national security have traditionally been at the center of public debate and political concern, sidelining many other conflictual issues, including socioeconomic ones (Moore, 2011). Additionally, protest orientation in the Israeli civil society remained low at the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first century (Yishai, 2003).…”

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Using Facebook differently in two education policy protests

Avigur-Eshel

Berkovich

2017

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Purpose Scholars have identified various uses of Facebook by activists and social movements in political activism and beyond. They overlooked, however, the possibility that social movements may take advantage of certain capabilities provided by social media platforms, while neglecting others, thereby creating differences in patterns of use between movements. The purpose of this paper is to investigate these differences and to assess the role of the lived experience of activists and supporters in shaping them. Design/methodology/approach This study compared two protests in Israel with respect to activists’ use of social media, the class profile of participants and the leadership’s demands and their resonance among various social groups. Each case was analyzed by combining thematic and quantitative analysis of online data from Facebook pages and of offline data from various sources. Findings The two protests exhibited distinctively different patterns of use of the capabilities provided by Facebook. These differences are associated with the lived experience of protest participants and of the individuals the movement leadership sought to mobilize. Originality/value This study is the first to show that successful public policy protests can exhibit distinctive use patterns of social media for political activism. It also identifies lived experience as an important factor in shaping these patterns.

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confidence: 99%