This article examines digital activism on Twitter against gender-based violence with regard
to the March 8, 2017, feminist movement in Spain (8M). We explore a sample of 20,000 …

The huge amount of data made available by the massive usage of social media has opened
up the unprecedented possibility to carry out a data-driven study of political processes …

This paper aims to analyze and compare the discursive strategies used to spread and
legitimate disinformation on Twitter and WhatsApp during the 2018 Brazilian presidential …

Understanding social movement structures is important for political decision-makers to
enable them to recognise the various motivating factors behind these movements. The …

Political tensions have grown throughout Europe since the beginning of the new century.
The consecutive crises led to the rise of different social movements in several countries, in …

Purpose This study aims to identify how Brazilian followers of an X/Twitter profile engage in
theory-building processes leading up to the January 8, 2023 riots in Brasília, the Brazilian …

Literature on influence operations highlights the coordinated actions of digital activists
aimed at persuading audiences. Scholars have discussed many angles of this behavior and …

Much work has been done on the role and impacts of social media in social movements, but
less attention has been paid to the use of content features such as hashtags and URLs, and …

This paper conceptualises digital displacement as both a way through which the digital,
dynamic and fragile spatialities of contentious politics can be examined and as a geographic …

In recent years, anti-rape culture and anti-rape communication have taken new forms,
including the diverse use of tweets and hashtags, prompting so-called hashtag feminism. In …