Social life increasingly occurs in digital environments and continues to be mediated by
digital systems. Big data represents the data being generated by the digitization of social life …

Media are central to the dynamics of protest and social movements. Contemporary social
movements face a shifting environment composed of new media technologies and platforms …

The exercise of power has been an implicit theme in research on the use of social media for
political protest, but few studies have attempted to measure social media power and its …

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has organized hundreds of disruptive protests in
American cities since 2013 (Garza 2014; Harris 2015; Taylor 2016). The movement has …

How do journalists know what they know? Who gets to decide what good journalism is and
when it's done right? What sort of expertise do journalists have, and what role should and do …

The infusion of digital technology into contemporary society has had significant effects for
everyday life and for everyday crimes. Digital Criminology: Crime and Justice in Digital …

Since 2013, protests opposing police violence against Black people have occurred across a
number of American cities under the banner of “Black Lives Matter.” We develop a new …

Recent events related to police brutality and the evolution of# BlackLivesMatter provides an
empirical case to explore the vitality of social media data for social movements and the …

Since the shooting of Black teenager Michael Brown by White police officer Darren Wilson in
Ferguson, Missouri, the protest hashtag# BlackLivesMatter has amplified critiques of …

Jürgen Habermas is arguably the most influential social theorist and philosopher of the
twentieth century, and his imprint on media and communication studies extends well into the …