Dynamics of scale shift

Contentious places and hybrid activism on social media

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ID6443409
AuthorsZozan Baran (0000-0003-1793-3539, Freie Universität Berlin), Daniela Stoltenberg (0000-0001-9334-1514, Freie Universität Berlin)
Year2024
Volume27
Issue9
Pages5088-5109
Publication date2024-04-24
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Media & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-4448 • E-ISSN: 1461-7315
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/14614448241247314
OpenAlexW4395456349
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited44

This article investigates the role of social media in scale shift of contention. Contentious politics research grapples with questions of scale shift, while digital activism explores connective potential of social media. Yet, the potential of social media is not fully explored in the scale shift processes. We conduct an explorative semantic network analysis to understand how activists create connections between contentious places to facilitate spatial and substantive scale shift. We define contentious places as places bearing demands and grievances on themselves, expressed with hashtags and connected via co-hashtagging practices. We employ the notion of hybridity to understand the role of online and offline dynamics in this process. Our results show that social media enables connections within and across borders, and across issues, hence expanding contention spatially and substantively

Contentious politics · Digital media · Dynamics (music · Epistemology · Hybridity · Media studies · Paradigm shift · Political science · Politics · Process (computing · Scale (ratio · Social dynamics · Social media · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · E-Government and Public Services · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Social Media and Politics

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