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Activism, campaigning and political discourse on Twitter / Innocent Chiluwa, Gwen Bourvier, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Media and communications-- technologies, policies and challenges.
- Media and communications-- technologies, policies and challenges
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social media--Political aspects.
- Social media.
- Twitter.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 309 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2019]
- Summary:
- "In this collection of chapters, authors from different academic disciplines, coming from different social and political backgrounds and experiences have explored the increasing transformative potentials of Twitter for group advocacy. The chapters further illustrate how Twitter serves as a forum for spreading awareness and information on social events, as well as for social activism and political discourse. Some of the topics explored include: Understanding the potential of Twitter for political activism; Digital Trump and conflict: A multi-method analysis; The use of Twitter as complementary press on the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370; Constructing transnational identity through Twitter activism: A discourse study of #FGM; LGBT social media activism in India; Online activism in Mali: a study of digital discourses of the Movement for the Liberation of Azawad; Sousveilance Twitter: activists' pro-democracy governance from below in Middle East; Twitter's ethics of freedom in the aftermath of November 2015 Paris attacks through the lens of the anonymous collective, etc."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Understanding the potential of Twitter for political activism / Gwen Bouvier and Le Cheng, Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland, and others
- The "premotion" of political discourse on Twitter : Promotional and emotional strategies of communicating and campaigning / Pietro Luigi Iaia, Department of Humanities, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
- Digital Trump and conflict : A multi-method analysis / Tedla Desta, Edward M. Kennedy Institute, Maynooth University, Ireland).
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5361-5453-9
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