Transnational Activism in Support of National Protest: Questions of Identity and Organization [PDF]
, 2017 This article considers the question of whether transnational activism supporting national protest attains a cohesive collective identity on social media whilst organizationally remaining localized.
Mercea, D.
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MODERN PROTEST MOVEMENTS IN THE USA AS A SUBJECT OF POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
Вісник НЮУ імені Ярослава Мудрого: Серія: Філософія, філософія права, політологія, соціологія, 2022 The article analyzes the main approaches to defining and understanding modern protest movements in the USA. The role of political protest as one of the forms of contentiouspoliticsis defined. The key importance of protest in the formation of mass social
Ihor Skrypchenko , Oleg Tkach
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Towards a conceptualization of casual protest participation: Parsing a case from the Save Roşia Montană campaign [PDF]
, 2014 There is currently an empirical gap in the literature on protest participation in liberal democracies which has overwhelmingly focused on Western Europe and North America at the expense of Eastern Europe.
Mercea, D.
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Persistent Political Engagement: Social Interactions and the Dynamics of Protest Movements
American Economic Review: Insights, 2021 We study the causes of sustained participation in political movements. To identify the persistent effect of protest participation, we randomly indirectly incentivize Hong Kong university students into participation in an antiauthoritarian protest.
Leonardo Bursztyn +12 more
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CLASSIFICATION OF SOCIAL PROTEST IN CONTEMPORARY JAPAN
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2015 The author makes an attempt to classify the political manifestations of social protest in postwar Japanese history. The author identifies five types of politically orchestrated social protest: ideological, socio-class, problem centered, conservative and ...
D. V. Streltsov
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Conspiracy Beliefs, Misinformation, Social Media Platforms, and Protest Participation
Media and Communication, 2022 Protest has long been associated with left-wing actors and left-wing causes. However, right-wing actors also engage in protest. Are right-wing actors mobilized by the same factors as those actors on the left? This article uses cross-national survey data (
Shelley Boulianne, Sangwon Lee
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The Algerian city is a space for protest movements: A study in the sociology of protest
Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Social Sciences, 2022 This study aims to provide a sociological view of the protest movements known to Algeria. And how the city streets turned in to a space for protest movements.
Abdlhalim Mahourbacha
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Social media, protest cultures and political subjectivities of the Arab spring [PDF]
, 2014 This article draws on phenomenological perspectives to present a case against resisting the objectification of cultures of protest and dissent. The generative, self-organizing properties of protest cultures, especially as mobilized through social media ...
Appadurai A +16 more
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Cooptation and non-cooptation: elite strategies in response to social protest
Social Movement Studies, 2019 The risk of cooptation – of being absorbed by powerful elites without gaining new advantages – is an important concern in studies of social movements and social change. Through cooptation, elites undermine movements by stripping them of their credibility
Markus Holdo
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Tweets and Mobilisation: Collective Action Theory and Social Media
Medijske Studije, 2017 This article examines the relationship between social protest and social media from the theoretical perspective of the Collective Action Research Program.
Cody McClain Brown
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