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Nov 10, 2020 · This chapter aims to re-examine the complex relationship between social media and contentious politics following the 2011 uprisings in Egypt and Syria. The chapter explores the contingent, differentiated, and contradictory roles that social media played in each of these cases.
Oct 23, 2020 · Finally, instead of considering media as arenas of claims, we investigate how media are constitutive of contentious publicness, which can be studied along its material, spatial, and temporal dimensions.
May 30, 2024 · Annett Heft, Kilian Buehling, Xixuan Zhang, Dominik Schindler and Miriam Milzner examine conspiracy-related debates and highlight the impact of social media on contentious politics. In the absence of journalistic filters, political opinions and news are diffused through a hybrid and interconnected digital sphere.
Contentious episodes are all around us: they involve contentious interaction among claim-makers, their allies, their opponents, the government, the media, and the mass public…. their rise and fall describes a trajectory of mobilization and demobilization involving interactions among these actors
Sep 1, 2010 · The authors propose a more complex approach that looks at the role of new media in contentious politics from five interlocking levels of analysis: individual transformation, intergroup relations, collective action, regime policies, and external attention.
Apr 10, 2012 · In the former, introducing digital media do not change the core dynamics of the action. In the case of the latter, they do. Building on these distinctions, the article presents three ideal types of large-scale action networks that are becoming prominent in the contentious politics of the contemporary era. Keywords:
Apr 1, 2021 · This chapter aims to re-examine the complex relationship between social media and contentious politics following the 2011 uprisings in Egypt and Syria. The chapter explores the contingent,...
