The Big Question: Have social media and/or smartphones disrupted life in your part of the world?

Valenzuela, Sebastián; Valdimarsson, Valgeir; Egbunike, Nwachukwu; Fraser, Matthew; Sey, Araba; Pallaev, Tohir; Chachavalpongpun, Pavin; Saka, Erkan; Lyubashenko, Igor

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“…Social media (from mainstream platforms such as Facebook and Twitter to organization-specific tools) have become increasingly pervasive. This is exemplified by the diversity of uses ranging from Twitter and Facebook use during the Arab Spring (Murthy, 2013) to the use of Snapchat by highly surveilled activist groups (Valenzuela et al, 2014). Many social movements have increasingly seen social media as a means to collaboratively crowdsource with diverse stakeholders (Lovejoy & Saxton, 2012).…”

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Introduction to Social Media, Activism, and Organizations

Murthy

2018

Social Media + Society

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Social media have become increasingly pervasive. However, the literature on social movements and social media has not fully grasped just how much social media have fundamentally changed the landscape of organizational communication, ranging from stakeholders being able to directly mobilize resources to making grassroots transnational social movements more organizationally feasible. A major gap in the literature is this lack of understanding how social media have shaped social movement organizations (SMOs) and the organization of social movements. This Special Issue brings together a unique collection of articles that map and comment on the field of social media and social movements. The volume contributes to literature in this area by exploring how social media are not only shaping social movements, advocacy, and activism from the point of view of organizational communication but also changing the ways in which activists and SMOs interact with each other. The volume leverages a diverse array of interdisciplinary methods and covers a broad terrain ranging from analyses of knowledge transfer between grassroot activists via social media to large SMOs. The Issue is broadly divided into two parts. Part 1 is focused around trends and interventions in social media, activism, and organizations research. Part 2 revolves around a global collection of case studies. The two are hardly mutually exclusive and the boundaries are roughly drawn. This collection provides a critical starting point for better understanding social media and social movements, an area that is fundamentally important to a variety of disciplines but severely underresearched.

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Introduction to Social Media, Activism, and Organizations

Murthy

2018

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“…Nonetheless, the Nigerian social media network is not to be glossed over. The 2012 #OccupyNigeria Protests and the 2013 #BringBackOurGirls campaign generated international media interest due to social media backed activism (Valenzuela et al, 2014). Although these two movements received positive push via social media, the same media diluted the seriousness of their messages given greater and more vocal contestations of their origins and intentions on these media.…”

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Nature of Tweets in the 2015 Nigerian Presidential Elections

Egbunike

Ihebuzor

Onyechi

2015

International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change

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Social media is becoming increasingly important as a means for social engagement. In Nigeria, Twitter is employed to convey opinion and make commentary on matters ranging from football to politics. Tweets are also used to inform, advocate, recruit and even incite. Previous studies have shown that Twitter could be effective for political mobilization. However, there is dearth of research on how Twitter has been used as a purveyor of neutral and/or hate speech in the Nigerian context. This study examined the nature of tweets in the immediate aftermath of the 2015 presidential election in Nigeria. The authors employed content analysis of 250 purposively selected tweets from the #Igbo hashtag which trended between March 29 and 31, 2015. The tweets were then categorized into five explicit hate and one neutral tweet category respectively. Results revealed the dominance of three hate tweet types: derogatory, mocking and blaming. These findings were then discussed bearing in mind earlier theories on the functionality of tweets and voting patterns from an analysis of the election results.

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Social Media as the Fifth Estate in Nigeria: An Analysis of the 2012 Occupy Nigeria Protest

Uwalaka

Watkins

2018

African Journalism Studies

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The Big Question: Have social media and/or smartphones disrupted life in your part of the world?

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Introduction to Social Media, Activism, and Organizations

Introduction to Social Media, Activism, and Organizations

Nature of Tweets in the 2015 Nigerian Presidential Elections

Social Media as the Fifth Estate in Nigeria: An Analysis of the 2012 Occupy Nigeria Protest

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