This paper examines how the video-sharing platform YouTube was utilized by networks of
anti-immigration activists that began emerging in Finland during the so-called refugee crisis …

Protest movements have been galvanized recently by social media and are commonly, and
somewhat hyperbolically, referred to by mainstream media as “Twitter revolutions.” This …

This chapter argues that in order to understand contemporary forms of video activism, we
need to extend our analytical scope beyond the confinements of the strategic work of social …

This article analyses user-generated YouTube cut and mix videos of irregular migration as
producing communicative memory of those who have suffered at Europe's external borders …

In 2007, Rick Prelinger designated access the main feature of the twenty-first-century
archive. Until then, he argued, archivists had “tended to privilege preservation”—even if they …

This chapter engages with the notion of digital media activism. The starting point is that
current studies often fall short in situating digital media activism within a longer historical …

This grounded theory study explores how bystander digital video distributed via social
media documents perceived injustice and serves as an emancipatory technology. Using 30 …

Much scholarship has looked at how radical politics and its symbolism are framed and
distorted by the mass media, while less attention has been devoted to how the symbolic …

The video documentation of police violence against citizens, and the circulation of these
videos over mainstream and social media, has played an important part in many …

Cellphilms are short videos shot on cellphones (Dockney, Tomaselli & Hart, 2010); they can
be shared phone-to-phone or uploaded to video sharing social media sites and shared …