Materializing activism
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Online activism showcases how available digital tools allow social movements to emerge, scale up, and extend globally by fundamentally enabling new forms of power. This special issue brings together eight research articles that engage with the collaborative efforts embedded in various types of activism by studying features such as the socio-technical systems involved; how the activism is organized; relations between traditional and social media; and the complex network of systems, information, people, values, theories, histories, ideologies, and aesthetics that constitutes such activisms. The articles show the spaces in which this activism materializes, and particularly their situation in several intersecting dimensions including motivation, culture, language, and infrastructure. Together, these articles reflect the methodological breadth required to materialize online activism and the need to develop a more nuanced conceptualization of the media ecologies involved. By mapping out how activism is enabled and constrained by human-computer interfaces, this special issue contributes to open up the black box of online activism.
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Number of citations to item: 4
- Katie Berns, Chiara Rossitto, Jakob Tholander (2023): Learning from Other Communities: Organising Collective Action in a Grassroots Food-sharing Initiative, In: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 4(32), doi:10.1007/s10606-023-09468-5
- Gregor Wolbring, Laiba Nasir, Dana Mahr (2024): Academic Coverage of Online Activism of Disabled People: A Scoping Review, In: Societies 11(14), doi:10.3390/soc14110215
- Andrea Hamm (2022): New Objects, New Boundaries: How the "Journalism of Things" Reconfigures Collaborative Arrangements, Audience Relations and Knowledge-Based Empowerment, In: Digital Journalism 8(12), doi:10.1080/21670811.2022.2096088
- Qinyuan Lei, Kit Kuksenok, Ran Tang, Jingyi Guo, Ran Ji, Jiaxun LI (2023): Identity Struggles as Online Activism in China: A Case Study Based on "The Inviting Plan for 985 Fives" Community on Douban, In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction CSCW2(7), doi:10.1145/3610070