Voice and Listening in Social Media Facilitated Activist Collectives

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12924971
AutoresDelia Dumitrica (0000-0001-6944-6092, Erasmus University Rotterdam, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen57
Número4
Páginas582-603
Fecha de publicación2020-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCanadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1755-6171 • E-ISSN: 1755-618X
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/cars.12302
OpenAlexW3096492451
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas40

This paper examines the articulation of Canadian civic culture from below. Focusing on digitally mediated grassroots mobilizations, it asks how citizens construct and discursively deploy voice and listening as civic values. The paper draws from three empirical cases: the 2014 mobilization of parents during the teachers’ strike in British Columbia; the 2015 citizen mobilizations in support of Syrian refugees; and the 2016 sit‐in protest outside the Toronto Police headquarters. Citizens participating in these initiatives were keen to “speak up,” establishing voice as a civic value. Yet, this is not accompanied by equal attention to the role of listening. This invites simplistic takes to citizen participation, leaving it vulnerable to populist hijackings

Active listening · Articulation (sociology · Grassroots · Media studies · Mobilization · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social movement · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Communication · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Public Administration · Social Media and Politics