Reclaim the Beach: How Offline Events Shape Online Interactions and Networks Amongst Those Who Support and Oppose Right-Wing Protest

Thomas, Emma F.; Leggett, Nathan; Kernot, David; Mitchell, Lewis; Magsarjav, Saranzaya; Weber, Nathan

doi:10.1080/1057610x.2022.2034222

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“…And how do offline events shape (change) the nature of those online interactions? The availability of online open‐source data (e.g, Twitter, Reddit) means that it is now possible to travel back in time to model how the features of a person’s past (e.g., their patterns and content of online interactions) shape what they come to support (or oppose) in the present (see L. G. E. Smith et al, 2018; Thomas et al, 2022).…”

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MOBILISE: A Higher‐Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges

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Duncan

McGarty

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Political Psychology

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The past decade has witnessed rapid growth in popular protest, alongside an upsurge in research on collective action. The proliferation of research has been both productive and fragmenting: We have an excellent understanding of the many factors that shape participation in collective action, but we lack a framework that explains how these factors fit together. The Model of Belonging, Individual differences, Life experience and Interaction Sustaining Engagement (MOBILISE) addresses this gap to explain when, why, how, and for whom, collective action manifests. MOBILISE suggests that participation in collective action is shaped by individual differences (micro) and life experiences which, separately and in combination, lead to the formation of a group consciousness (meso) via the collectivization of grievance. Group consciousness is, in turn, the proximal predictor of collective action. Collective action itself has outcomes for people (dis/empowerment) and societies. These micro and meso processes occur in the context of macro societal factors relating to the cultural, political, and economic environment. MOBILISE highlights the transformational role of interaction in explaining the global reach and rapidity with which popular movements can form.

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MOBILISE: A Higher‐Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges

Thomas

Duncan

McGarty

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Political Psychology

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Polarization is the psychological foundation of collective engagement

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Thomas,

Bliuc

et al. 2024

Commun Psychol

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The term polarization is used to describe both the division of a society into opposing groups (political polarization), and a social psychological phenomenon (group polarization) whereby people adopt more extreme positions after discussion. We explain how group polarization underpins the political polarization phenomenon: Social interaction, for example through social media, enables groups to form in such a way that their beliefs about what should be done to change the world—and how this differs from the stance of other groups—become integrated as aspects of a new, shared social identity. This provides a basis for mobilization to collective action.

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Making Sense of Post-match Fan Behaviors in the Online Football Communities

Wang

2023

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Reclaim the Beach: How Offline Events Shape Online Interactions and Networks Amongst Those Who Support and Oppose Right-Wing Protest

Cited by 3 publications

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MOBILISE: A Higher‐Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges

MOBILISE: A Higher‐Order Integration of Collective Action Research to Address Global Challenges

Polarization is the psychological foundation of collective engagement

Making Sense of Post-match Fan Behaviors in the Online Football Communities

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