This paper argues for the importance and value of digital activism. We first outline the
arguments against digitally mediated activism and then address the counter-arguments …

In this article, we argue for the importance of considering participant observation roles in
relation to both insider/outsider and overt/covert roles. Through combining key academic …

The confluence of activism and social media—legitimized by efforts such as the Arab Spring
and Occupy Movements—represents a growing area of mainstream media focus. Using …

The 2009 protests in Iran and the 2011 Arab uprisings took place in complex and fast
evolving media ecologies. The BBC's Persian and Arabic language services, which reach …

A plethora of media platforms were involved in communicating recent protests across the
Middle East and North Africa (MENA), though it remains unclear exactly how these …

Abstract The annual United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on Climate Change
conferences provides a transnational mediation opportunity structure for activist networks to …

Although the media are ascribed much power in discussions about far-right politics, to date
the communicative dimension of extreme right mobilization received little rigorous scholarly …

The convenience and usability of Web 2.0 platforms has meant that Internet traffic has
migrated away from the Web. Through a combination of technological affordances, user …

The notion that communication is constitutive of organization has been developed in
interesting ways, especially by the ventriloqual perspective and its observation that …

This book focuses on the referendums against water privatisation in Italy and explores how
activists took to social media, ultimately convincing twenty-seven million citizens to vote …