This review examines studies of the affordances of digital technologies that produce
virtuality. What we can call a “technological turn” in the literature considers technology a first …

The movement to free Al Jazeera journalists (# FreeAJStaff), imprisoned by Egyptian
authorities, utilized social media over almost 2 years, between 2013 and 2015.# FreeAJStaff …

Choice Top 25 Academic Title How activists and minority communities use media to facilitate
social change and achieve cultural citizenship. Among the most well-known YouTubers are …

Interest in the rural has increased in Sweden during the last decades and the rural has
become increasingly present as an object of politics, not least in social media. While social …

New communication technologies bring about new ways for political groups and movements
to mobilize and organize. A consequence of this might be that established interpretations of …

Social media is an arena of debate for contentious political and social topics. One
conservation topic debated online is the acceptability of trophy hunting, a debate that has …

The transformational potential of using social networking sites (SNS) for activism is a highly
researched topic in various academic disciplines, but the topic of 'success' has been largely …

Twitter continues to be used increasingly for communication related advocacy, activism, and
social change. This is also the case for the disability community. In light of the recently …

This article analyses the evolving uses of social media during wartime through the IDF
(Israel Defense Forces) Spokesperson Facebook and Twitter accounts. The conflict between …

The aim of this paper is to examine the organizational background of the protests „Against
dictatorship” that took place in several Serbian towns, in the spring of 2017. The absence of …