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Digital Activism in Post-2008 Protest Movements
Digital Activism in Post-2008 Protest Movements
Abstract Submissions Closed
Tuesday, 23 February 2021: 16:00-17:30
Location:
RC47 Social Classes and Social Movements (host committee)
Language: English
Session Type: Oral
From popular protests to the resurgence of the women’s movement in recent years, new identities have been communicated via posts and memes, and new platform-centred organization practices have even experimented. What is the character of these digital activist practices and how do they reflect the dilemmas of our digital present. This panel invites abstracts on the evolution of digital activism in the new protest movements of the post-2008 era. It is interested in digital practices of various recent movements, looking both at the emergence of new forms of resistance against the alt-right and the mobilisation of new demands on issues such as climate change, poverty, women's rights and many others. If back in 2011 at the time of the Occupy wave, digital activism still seemed like a novelty, by this day it has become one of the most familiar ways in which activists communicate and organise. Memes, political Facebook pages, and Twitter storms are key tactics used by activists to express their demands, represent social problems and mobilise their base.
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