Masses, Crowds, Communities, Movements: Collective Action in the Internet Age

Dolata, Ulrich; Schrape, Jan-Felix

doi:10.1080/14742837.2015.1055722

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“…In character, an online social movement also displays rudimentary features of offline collective action, such as a crowd sharing its outrage, opinions, and tension around an emotionally charged central event, before consolidating and self-organizing into a social movement with shared objectives and a strategy for action (Dolata & Schrape, 2015). In an online movement, social media users post relevant content as 'online protesters, ' who are then considered a part of the collective online-offline social movement.…”

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Tweeting India’s Nirbhaya protest: a study of emotional dynamics in an online social movement

Ahmed

Jaidka

Cho

2016

Social Movement Studies

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Tweeting India’s Nirbhaya protest: a study of emotional dynamics in an online social movement

Ahmed

Jaidka

Cho

2016

Social Movement Studies

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“…For functional systems such as the mass media, this informalization yields significant "enhancement options" (Nassehi 1999: 29, our translation) that for some time now have been exploited-for example, through the inclusion of user-generated content in professional news services or in crowd sourcing processes. Thus, new media technologies contribute to new divisions of labor, consumer but they do not fundamentally resolve the underlying dichotomy of professional providers and consumers (Dolata and Schrape 2016).…”

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Materializing Digital Futures

Dickel

Schrape

2016

Progress in IS

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Based on two paradigmatic case studies-Web 2.0 and 3D printingthis chapter explores the semantic patterns of popular media utopias and unfolds the thesis that their continuing success is based on their multireferencial connectability and compatibility to a broad variety of sociocultural and socioeconomical discurses. Further, we discuss the ambivalences and social functions of utopian concepts in the digital realm.

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“…Netflix, Amazon Prime, Google Play, Apple Music) are not just technical gimmicks but rather social structure elements that are incorporated in the platform design. Secondly, the infrastructures of the Internet are opening up expanded possibilities of social control because the communication profiles of their users can be observed, evaluated and sanctioned by private operators (or government intelligence agencies) to a degree that is much more exact and effective than previously possible (Dolata & Schrape 2016;Galloway 2004). …”

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“…In addition, the last years have seen several waves of emotionally charged outrage on the social web that were shown to have had an influence on political or business decisions (Bruns & Highfild 2015;Pfeffer et al 2014). Finally, social media on the web have become central tools of collective action in social movements and communities of interest-the whole without any disintermediation of genuinely social structuring processes (Dolata & Schrape 2016).…”

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Social Media, Mass Media and the 'Public Sphere'. Differentiation, Complementarity and Co-Existence

Schrape

2016

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractIn modern society, 'the public' is inevitably a mediated sphere as only media can bridge its spatial, temporal and topical diversity. While this media has traditionally been mass media (one-to-many), the arrival of the Internet has popularised meso media (many-to-many). In that context, the mediated public sphere has undergone significant changes. On the one hand, media theorists emphasise the enabling characteristics of digital media, hoping for an egalitarian public sphere and an empowerment of media users. On the other hand, critics discuss the regulatory attributes of social media platforms, which allow to preformat and to sanction communication more efficiently than ever before. This overview paper discusses the generic relationship between social media and mass media from a systems-theoretical point of view. Further, it addresses the question of whether the social web is in fact on the path to democratising the 'public sphere'. ZusammenfassungDie ‚Öffentlichkeit' in der modernen Gesellschaft ist zwangsläufig eine mediatisierte Sphäre, da allenfalls Verbreitungsmedien -traditionellerweise Massenmedien -ihre sachliche, räumliche und soziale Diversität überbrücken können. Seit den 1990er-Jahren bietet indes das Internet als Universalmedium eine ideale Projektionsfläche für Hoffnungen auf liberalere Öffentlichkeitsstrukturen, die mit einem Empowerment der Mediennutzer und einem Bedeutungsverlust klassischer massenmedialer Anbieter einhergehen sollen. Von den kommunikationserleichternden Effekten der Onlinetechnologien unmittelbare Veränderungen in den grundsätzlichen Strukturen gesellschaftlicher Öffentlichkeit abzuleiten, wäre allerdings ein technikdeterministischer Fehlschluss, der zuletzt immer wieder zu übersteigerten Erwartungen geführt hat. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt das vorliegende Übersichtspapier auf der Basis systemtheoretischer Einsichten zunächst ein Einordnungsmodell für Social Media und Massenmedien vor, das ihre unterschiedlichen Wirkungsbereiche in der gesellschaftlichen Wirklichkeitskonstruktion herausarbeitet, und diskutiert daran anknüp-fend, inwieweit sich bis dato tatsächlich von einer Demokratisierung der Öffentlich-keitsstrukturen durch das Social Web sprechen lässt.

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Masses, Crowds, Communities, Movements: Collective Action in the Internet Age

Cited by 95 publications

References 46 publications

Tweeting India’s Nirbhaya protest: a study of emotional dynamics in an online social movement

Tweeting India’s Nirbhaya protest: a study of emotional dynamics in an online social movement

Materializing Digital Futures

Social Media, Mass Media and the 'Public Sphere'. Differentiation, Complementarity and Co-Existence

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