Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994–2014

Karatzogianni, Athina

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“…Still, there remain important grounds for discovery of the societal and political effects of ICTs with regard to activists, autocrats, and democrats. Competing forces in the perpetual political struggles all devote special importance to digital resources, and ICTs have particular influences on these interactions (Bennett and Segerberg, 2013; Karatzogianni, 2015; Tufekci, 2017).…”

Section: Emerging Media Activism and Governancementioning

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Emerging media, political protests, and government repression in autocracies and democracies from 1995 to 2012

Christensen

Groshek

2019

International Communication Gazette

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This study empirically analyzed the relationships between emerging media as tools in fomenting anti-government protest as well as government repression of political opposition. Using a dataset of 162 democratic and autocratic countries over 18 years, potential differences between these phenomena were examined. The results of a series of analytic models suggest that higher levels of internet and mobile phones are positively associated with more instances of both political protests and political repression, which have increased dramatically in recent years. The differences between democratic and autocratic countries' emerging media and sociopolitical instability trends are explored and discussed.

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Section: Emerging Media Activism and Governancementioning

confidence: 99%

Emerging media, political protests, and government repression in autocracies and democracies from 1995 to 2012

Christensen

Groshek

2019

International Communication Gazette

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“…They may well accelerate mobilization, as they did during the "Arab Spring". Nevertheless, with neoliberal structural adjustment programs creating inequalities, food crises, youth unemployment and precarity, corruption and deep cleavages acting as the material conditions defining the social and political relations and resistances produced in that period (Karatzogianni, 2015). They resulted in regime change, but not in a social revolution.…”

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A Comparative Cyberconflict Analysis of Digital Activism Across Post-Soviet Countries

2017

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It is more common for digital activism scholarship to focus on a political event, movement or organization, or the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in a single country, case study or incident, rather than utilizing a comparative politics and sociology approach across several countries. This article analyses digital activism comparatively in relation to three Post-Soviet regions: Russian/anti-Russian during Crimea and online political deliberation in Belarus, in juxtaposition to Estonia's digital governance approach. We show that in resistant civil societies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, cultural forms of digital activism, such as internet memes, thrive and produce and reproduce effective forms of political deliberation. In contrast to Estonia, which tops the internet freedom table and is innovating in digital governance with the e-residency program, in authoritarian regimes actual massive mobilization and protest is forbidden, or is severely punished with activists imprisoned, persecuted or murdered by the state. This is consistent with use of cultural forms of digital activism in countries where protest is illegal and political deliberation is restricted in government-controlled or oligarchic media. Humorous political commentary might be tolerated online to avoid mobilization and decompress dissent and resistance, yet remaining strictly within censorship and surveillance apparatuses. Our research affirms the potential of internet memes in addressing apolitical crowds, infiltrating casual conversations and providing symbolic manifestation to the burning resistant debates. Yet on the other hand, the virtuality of the protest undermines its consistency and impact on the offline political deliberation. Without knowing each other beyond the social media debates, the participants are unlikely to form robust organisational structures and mobilise for activism offline.

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“…Defining digital activism as political participation and protest organized in digital networks, Athina Karatzogianni (2015) explores four waves of digital activism. She identifies the first wave as starting in 1994 with the Zapatista movement and antiglobalization movement, including alternative media such as Indymedia.…”

Section: Histories Of Digital Activism and Media-determinismmentioning

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“…During the third wave after 2007, digital activism spreads to the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India and China) and other countries beyond Europe and the United States, where it had initially originated. The fourth wave between 2010 and 2013 marks the mainstreaming of digital activism that is dominated by discussions of large-scale digital state surveillance unveiled by Wikileaks and Snowden (Karatzogianni, 2015). Similarly, Paolo Gerbaudo (2017) distinguishes two periods of digital activism.…”

Section: Histories Of Digital Activism and Media-determinismmentioning

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Digital activism: After the hype

Kaun

Uldam

2017

New Media & Society

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Research on digital activism has gained traction in recent years. At the same time, it remains a diverse and open field that lacks a coherent mode of inquiry. For the better or worse, digital activism remains a fuzzy term. In this introduction to a special issue on digital activism, we review current attempts to periodize and historicize digital activism. Although there is growing body of research on digitial activism, many contributions remain limited through their ahistorical approach and the digital universalism that they imply. Based on the contributions to the special issue, we argue for studying digital activisms in a way that traverses a two-dimensional axis of digital technologies and activist practices, striking the balance between context and media-specificity.

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Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994–2014

Cited by 70 publications

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Emerging media, political protests, and government repression in autocracies and democracies from 1995 to 2012

Emerging media, political protests, and government repression in autocracies and democracies from 1995 to 2012

A Comparative Cyberconflict Analysis of Digital Activism Across Post-Soviet Countries

Digital activism: After the hype

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