A blast from the past

Memories, social media, and peace movement

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21641995
AutoresAbdul Rohman (0000-0001-9826-903X, Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, Vietnam, autor de correspondencia), Dyah Pitaloka (0000-0002-5603-1290, Indonesian Studies, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
Año2020
Volumen23
Número3
Páginas203-222
Fecha de publicación2020-07-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Communication Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1071-4421 • E-ISSN: 1547-7487
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10714421.2020.1829304
OpenAlexW3098987780
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas52

Engaging in activities that allows social movement actors to share their memories with others helps keep the movement alive after achieving immediate goals. Many studies have focused on sharing movement memories situated within face to face settings. This study expands such a focus by investigating how the actors share the memories on new media platforms. Based on interview and observation data collected from peace movement actors in Ambon, Indonesia, this study found that Facebook, together with messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, facilitated the peace actors to reminisce their memories and recalibrate them in a post-movement phase. Hence, keeping the actors connected over time. Such a post-movement dynamic was feasible in part because of the presence of actors who actively posted meaningful events that triggered the other actors’ recollections, resulting in conversational threads, ideas for subsequent movements, and face-to-face meetings. The present findings have the potential to unfold nuances surrounding the continuity of new media enabled social movements

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