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      Social Media Materialities and Protest
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      Critical Reflections

      Social Media Materialities and Protest

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      Social Media Materialities and Protest book

      Critical Reflections
      Edited ByMette Mortensen, Christina Neumayer, Thomas Poell
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2018
      eBook Published 13 December 2018
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315107066
      Pages 176
      eBook ISBN 9781315107066
      Subjects Humanities
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      Mortensen, M., Neumayer, C., & Poell, T. (Eds.). (2018). Social Media Materialities and Protest: Critical Reflections (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315107066

      ABSTRACT

      Far from being neutral, social media platforms – such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and WeChat – possess their own material characteristics, which shape how people engage, protest, resist, and struggle. This innovative collection advances the notion of social media materialities to draw attention to the ways in which the wires and silicon, data streams and algorithms, user and programming interfaces, business models and terms of service steer contentious practices and, inversely, how technologies and economic models are handled and performed by users. The key question is how the tension between social media’s techno-commercial infrastructures and activist agency plays out in protest. Addressing this, the volume goes beyond singular empirical examples and focuses on the characteristics of protest and social media materialities, offering further conceptualizations and guidance for this emerging field of research. The various contributions explore a wide variety of activist projects, protests, and regions, ranging from Occupy in the USA to environmental protests in China, and from the Mexican Barrio Nómada to the Copenhagen-based activist television channel TV Stop (1987–2005).

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |14 pages

      Introduction

      Social media materialities and protest
      ByChristina Neumayer, Mette Mortensen, Thomas Poell

      part I|2 pages

      Spatiality

      chapter 1|11 pages

      I post, you rally, she tweets…and we all occupy

      17The challenges of hybrid spatiality in the Occupy Wall Street mobilizations
      ByAlice Mattoni

      chapter 2|14 pages

      Rethinking networked solidarity

      BySky Croeser

      chapter 3|15 pages

      Nomads of cyber-urban space

      Media hybridity as resistance
      ByEmiliano Treré

      part II|2 pages

      Temporality

      chapter 4|13 pages

      (Social) media time, connective memory and activist television histories

      59The case of TV Stop (1987–2005)
      ByTina Askanius

      chapter 5|14 pages

      Facebook’s communication protocols, algorithmic filters, and protest

      A critical socio-technical perspective
      ByLorenzo Coretti, Daniele Pica

      chapter 6|10 pages

      Social media as activist archives

      ByChristina Neumayer, David M. Struthers

      part III|2 pages

      Platformization

      chapter 7|15 pages

      Theorizing civic engagement and social media

      101The case of the “refugee crisis” and volunteer organizing in Sweden
      ByJulie Uldam, Anne Kaun

      chapter 8|13 pages

      The materiality of clouds

      Beyond a platform-specific critique of contemporary activism
      ByStefania Milan

      chapter 9|13 pages

      “Please leave my news feed alone”

      Exploring user protest against algorithmic personalization
      ByMartina Skrubbeltrang Mahnke

      chapter 10|14 pages

      Evolving digital repertoires of contention in transitional societies

      The case of China
      ByJun Liu

      chapter |7 pages

      Afterword

      Lessons and puzzles in studying social media materialities and protest
      ByAlexandra Segerberg, W. Lance Bennett
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