The online crowd: a contradiction in terms? On the potentials of Gustave Le Bon's crowd psychology in an analysis of affective blogging

Making Sense of The Lonely Crowd, Today: Youth, Emotions and Loneliness in a Networked Society

“…This text made use of David Riesman's classic The Lonely Crowd to discuss its power in reading contemporary society, particularly youth. Additionally inspired by the work of Carsten Stage (2013), when referring to the "online crowd", it provides an empirical basis for documenting youth, emotions and loneliness among a representative sample of students of secondary schools in Évora, Portugal. First and immediate conclusions arising when analyzing these data can be aggregated in the idea of "joining the crowd", as something inevitable and pervasive among students.…”

“…Neil McLaughlin argues that "there is much of Riesman's analysis that rings true today" (McLaughlin 2001, p. 15). Undoubtedly, the idea of a "lonely crowd" is easily expanded into the "online crowd" (Stage 2013). With the rise of the Internet, the generalization of using mobile devices to allow instant communication and, more recently, the pervasive use of social media, the ideas presented in Riesman's book seem as current as in the 50s.…”

Socialkonstruktivisme, sprog og identitet: Identitetsforhandlinger på Eva Dien Brine Markvoorts sygdomsblog 65 Red Roses

“…Bloggen kan analyseres på flere forskellige måder, fx med fokus på internettets eller bloggens betydning for terminalt syge og offentlighedens aendrede relation til døden/døende, eller på affektens betydning for bloggens kommunikation og dens voksende skare af laesere. Disse emner har jeg gjort til genstand for analyser i andre sammenhaenge (Stage 2013(Stage , 2014, men inden for rammen af dette saernummer vil mit fokus vaere 1) relationen mellem sprogbrug, identitetsdannelse og sygdom i forhold til bloggen og 2) en diskussion af et konstruktivistisk identitetsbegrebs relevans for analysen af EMs sygdomsblog. I artiklen vil jeg således undersøge følgende to analysespørgsmål: Hvilket identitetsarbejde udfoldes gennem bloggens kommunikation, dvs.…”

“…For at forstå EMs evne til at fange sine laesere og den bredere kontekst må hendes alder og hendes fysiske fremtraeden uden tvivl også tages i betragtning (Stage 2013). Det er således både et meget ungt og smukt menneske, der udstiller sin dødsproces, hvilket motiverer en oplevelse af et stort tab af potentielt liv.…”

Event-making the past: Commemorations as social movement catalysts

“…Perhaps as a result of the rapid transformation of our forms of communication, studies have convincingly discussed the category of crowds as not being necessarily defined by physical co-presence, using notions such as traversing crowds (Olofsson 2010), mediated crowds (Baker 2011) and online crowds (Stage 2013;Knudsen and Stage 2015a). Yet this line of thought is not pertinent to this context, as it is a topological gathering which is under analysis here.…”