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Shifting Stakes: Understanding the Dynamic Roles of Individuals and Organizations in Social Media Protests.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2016
In this paper we examine two protests characterized by substantial social media presence and distributed participation frameworks via two core questions: what roles did organizations and individuals play, and how did participants' social interactions ...
Emma S Spiro, Andrés Monroy-Hernández
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Humour and Social Protest: An Introduction [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Review of Social History, 2007
In the introduction to this volume, the author explains why social historians should study the relationship between humour and social protest in the past. The following questions are of interest. Under what conditions did laughter serve the cause of the protesters? How did humour strengthen social protest?
openaire   +3 more sources

The Social Network and #EndSARS Agitation: Protests against Police Brutality and Bad Governance in Nigeria

open access: yesLingua: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra dan Pengajarannya, 2022
Protests in Nigeria have gained global attention in recent times and have attracted different explanations about their root causes. Violence may sometimes erupt because of protests; however, this does not usually happen until additional factors ...
Theophilus Adedokun
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Inequality, Social Protests and Civil War

open access: yesOASIS, 2017
The following article presents a series of hypotheses to analyze the possible transitions between protest and civil war and their relation to inequality.
Fabio Andrés Díaz
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Shifting perceptions or shifting attention? The local press, Venezuelan migration, and hostile perceptions in Colombia

open access: yesEstudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico
Social protests were crucial to the election of Colombia's progressive government in 2022. However, it's role in the violence against Venezuelan migrants that preceded it is still unclear.  This paper examines racial bias in media responses to Venezuelan
Markus Ciesielski   +1 more
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Iran's Criminal Policy Approach Facing with Social Protests [PDF]

open access: yesFaṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish-i Huqūq-i Kiyfarī
Today, social protests are as an expected social phenomenon in human societies, even in societies based on democracy, there are social protests because the impact of the decisions of the state and political authorities on the lives of the people of a ...
saeed Akbari   +2 more
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„Dumna dziewczyna w bieli"

open access: yesSprawy Międzynarodowe, 2021
The article is part of the discussion on women’s political participation, their involvement in social movements and protests which are concentrated on the power shift and democratisation of the political system.
Agata Włodkowska
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Selection Bias of News on Social Media: The Role of Selective Sharing and Avoidance During the Lebanon Uprising

open access: yesInternational Journal of Communication, 2022
This study examines selection bias on social media during the 2019 Lebanon protests. Based on the theoretical concepts of selective avoidance and selective sharing, the survey of a nationally representative probability sample found selective avoidance to
Claudia Kozman, Jad Melki
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Torture based on discrimination in Chile.

open access: yesTorture, 2020
Of the approximately 40 Mapuche political prisoners currently serving sentences in Chilean jails, more than half have either gone on, or are currently on, hunger strike. The first prisoners to adopt such a measure did so on May 4.
Jesus Antona Bustos
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Social Resistance against Corporations for Environmental Preservation from Mining Exploration

open access: yesSociety, 2022
Environmental preservation needs to be considered to avoid conflicts and social protests in the mining world, especially in the communities around the mines.
Syafruddin Syafruddin   +4 more
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