Girish Lala
Biographic Data
| ID | 4395639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Girish Lala |
| GIVEN NAMES | Girish |
| FAMILY NAME | Lala |
| SIGNATURE | LALA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murdoch University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Culture-Centred Digital Design
This pilot study employed a decolonised, youth-centred methodology to challenge dominant discourses and hierarchies in knowledge production. The Distributed Data Generation (DDG) approach facilitated participatory workshops across Australia, India, and Indonesia, involving collaboration with local research centres and a youth organisation. This cross-cultural partnership aimed to unsettle Western assumptions about research methodologies and knowl…
That's not funny!’ Standing up against disparaging humor
How Activists Respond to Social Structure in Offline and Online Contexts
The social identity model of collective action (SIMCA) proposes that collective action flows from identity, perceived injustice, and efficacy beliefs but do these drivers apply for activists in all situations? Intuitively, the social structure that confronts activists should influence when and how they act. In two studies, we consider how activists incorporate the opinions of other people, groups, and institutions as part of their own reality or …
Whatever happened to Kony2012? Understanding a global Internet phenomenon as an emergent social identity
Kony2012 was a viral Internet video that attracted unprecedented online interest in promoting a campaign to arrest the leader of an African militant group. The current research considers the social psychological bases of social media‐based collective action. In three cross‐sectional surveys ( N = 304) collected before, on, and after the key action date of 20 April 2012, we consider the nature (opinion based or global) and function (emergent or tr…
Messages of Hope
For the past twenty years, the overriding story of Rwanda has been centred around the events and consequences of the genocide. In Rwanda, public expressions of that story have occurred in the gacaca courts, where survivors and perpetrators testified about their experiences and actions, during ongoing annual remembrance and mourning commemorations, and in memorial sites across the country that act as physical reminders of the genocide. While impor…
New Technologies, New Identities, and the Growth of Mass Opposition in the Arab Spring
The recent revolutions known as the Arab Spring have been characterized as the products of social media. However, there is an alternative view that revolution takes place on the street or the battlefield and that the role of social media has been overstated. We argue that some new technologies can serve to facilitate rapid social change when they provide ways to overcome restrictions on the freedoms of expression and association. In doing so, com…
Understanding Cyberhate
This study investigated the self-enhancement strategies used by online White supremacist groups. In accordance with social identity theory, we proposed that White supremacist groups, in perceiving themselves as members of a high-status, impermeable group under threat from out-groups, should advocate more social conflict than social creativity strategies. We also expected levels of advocated violence to be lower than levels of social conflict and …
New Technologies, New Identities, and the Growth of Mass Opposition in the Arab Spring
The recent revolutions known as the Arab Spring have been characterized as the products of social media. However, there is an alternative view that revolution takes place on the street or the battlefield and that the role of social media has been overstated. We argue that some new technologies can serve to facilitate rapid social change when they provide ways to overcome restrictions on the freedoms of expression and association. In doing so, com…
Understanding Cyberhate
This study investigated the self-enhancement strategies used by online White supremacist groups. In accordance with social identity theory, we proposed that White supremacist groups, in perceiving themselves as members of a high-status, impermeable group under threat from out-groups, should advocate more social conflict than social creativity strategies. We also expected levels of advocated violence to be lower than levels of social conflict and …
Whatever happened to Kony2012? Understanding a global Internet phenomenon as an emergent social identity
Kony2012 was a viral Internet video that attracted unprecedented online interest in promoting a campaign to arrest the leader of an African militant group. The current research considers the social psychological bases of social media‐based collective action. In three cross‐sectional surveys ( N = 304) collected before, on, and after the key action date of 20 April 2012, we consider the nature (opinion based or global) and function (emergent or tr…
Messages of Hope
For the past twenty years, the overriding story of Rwanda has been centred around the events and consequences of the genocide. In Rwanda, public expressions of that story have occurred in the gacaca courts, where survivors and perpetrators testified about their experiences and actions, during ongoing annual remembrance and mourning commemorations, and in memorial sites across the country that act as physical reminders of the genocide. While impor…
That's not funny!’ Standing up against disparaging humor
How Activists Respond to Social Structure in Offline and Online Contexts
The social identity model of collective action (SIMCA) proposes that collective action flows from identity, perceived injustice, and efficacy beliefs but do these drivers apply for activists in all situations? Intuitively, the social structure that confronts activists should influence when and how they act. In two studies, we consider how activists incorporate the opinions of other people, groups, and institutions as part of their own reality or …
Understanding Cyberhate
This study investigated the self-enhancement strategies used by online White supremacist groups. In accordance with social identity theory, we proposed that White supremacist groups, in perceiving themselves as members of a high-status, impermeable group under threat from out-groups, should advocate more social conflict than social creativity strategies. We also expected levels of advocated violence to be lower than levels of social conflict and …
Messages of Hope
For the past twenty years, the overriding story of Rwanda has been centred around the events and consequences of the genocide. In Rwanda, public expressions of that story have occurred in the gacaca courts, where survivors and perpetrators testified about their experiences and actions, during ongoing annual remembrance and mourning commemorations, and in memorial sites across the country that act as physical reminders of the genocide. While impor…
New Technologies, New Identities, and the Growth of Mass Opposition in the Arab Spring
The recent revolutions known as the Arab Spring have been characterized as the products of social media. However, there is an alternative view that revolution takes place on the street or the battlefield and that the role of social media has been overstated. We argue that some new technologies can serve to facilitate rapid social change when they provide ways to overcome restrictions on the freedoms of expression and association. In doing so, com…
Whatever happened to Kony2012? Understanding a global Internet phenomenon as an emergent social identity
Kony2012 was a viral Internet video that attracted unprecedented online interest in promoting a campaign to arrest the leader of an African militant group. The current research considers the social psychological bases of social media‐based collective action. In three cross‐sectional surveys ( N = 304) collected before, on, and after the key action date of 20 April 2012, we consider the nature (opinion based or global) and function (emergent or tr…
How Activists Respond to Social Structure in Offline and Online Contexts
The social identity model of collective action (SIMCA) proposes that collective action flows from identity, perceived injustice, and efficacy beliefs but do these drivers apply for activists in all situations? Intuitively, the social structure that confronts activists should influence when and how they act. In two studies, we consider how activists incorporate the opinions of other people, groups, and institutions as part of their own reality or …
That's not funny!’ Standing up against disparaging humor
Culture-Centred Digital Design
This pilot study employed a decolonised, youth-centred methodology to challenge dominant discourses and hierarchies in knowledge production. The Distributed Data Generation (DDG) approach facilitated participatory workshops across Australia, India, and Indonesia, involving collaboration with local research centres and a youth organisation. This cross-cultural partnership aimed to unsettle Western assumptions about research methodologies and knowl…
Law (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social group (3 works) · Social identity theory (3 works)