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Technology and Social Media

Earl, Jennifer·2018·The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements
DOI 10.1002/9781119168577.ch16
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This chapter reviews research on Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) and protest since the inception of this area. Despite early and enduring skepticism about the importance of ICTs to protest by many social movement scholars, scholarship has developed over time, particularly outside of social movement studies in communication, political communication, and interdisciplinary research on ICTs. While early scholarship focused on grand debates, such as whether and to what extent existing social movement theory could address challenges raised by ICTs, more recent research focuses on more meso-level questions familiar to many social movement scholars, such as how ICT usage can affect repression and the effectiveness of digital protest. Continuing debates involve the kinds of cases that should be studied, how to generalize from those cases, and how to understand the hybridity of physical and screen worlds.

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  • Various forms of digital repression have been studied across many disciplines with dissimilar fundamental questions, diverse theoretical and methodological tool kits, and varying awareness of existing research on traditional repression.

    “These various forms of digital repression have been studied across many disciplines, which have approached them with dissimilar fundamental questions, diverse extant theoretical and methodological tool kits, and varying awareness of existing research on traditional forms of social movement repression (14).”

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Authors
Earl, J.
Corresponding author
Earl, Jennifer
ORCID
Earl, Jennifer
Venue
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Social Movements
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2018-10-05
Pages
289-305
DOI
10.1002/9781119168577.ch16
OpenAlex
W2895109597
Cited by
68
References
87
Citations by year
2025: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 53 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1
Type
other
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1 (tdm)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Movements and Cultural Identity
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
Keywords
information and communication technologies, social media, protest, social movements, online protest, repression, social movement theory, political communication

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