Technology, Media and Social Movements

This book offers an interdisciplinary cutting edge exploration of research on the relationship between media, technology and social movements, a rapidly developing and complex area of contemporary scholarship. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Movement Studies.

1. Navigating the technology-media-movements complex Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Kevin Gillan 2. Complex contention: analyzing power dynamics within Anonymous Justus Uitermark 3. From 'moments of madness' to 'the politics of mundanity' - researching digital media and contentious collective actions in China Jun Liu 4. The integrative power of online collective action networks beyond protest: Exploring social media use in the process of institutionalization Elena Pavan 5. Tweeting India's Nirbhaya protest: a study of emotional dynamics in an online social movement Saifuddin Ahmed, Kokil Jaidka and Jaeho Cho 6. Open networks and secret Facebook groups: exploring cycle effects on activists' social media use in the 2010/11 UK student protests Alexander Hensby 7. The new information frontier: toward a more nuanced view of social movement communication Jennifer Earl and R. Kelly Garrett 8. A situated understanding of digital technologies in social movements: Media ecology and media practice approaches Alice Mattoni