[Air-L] Revisiting the Role of Digital Media in Social Movements - Final Call for Abstracts

[David Dueñas Cid]

*Interested in Digital Media and Collective Action? *
Just 2 days left (30 September) to submit your presentation to the
Session "*Revisiting
the Role of Digital Media in Social Movements*" to be held in the IV ISA
Forum of Sociology (Porto Alegre, July 2020).

*Link: *

https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2020/webprogrampreliminary/Session14423.html


*Session description:*

The advent of digital media has been observed to create opportunities for
social movements to thrive in different regions of the world. The growing
popularity of mobile technologies and social networking sites, in
particular, has allowed activist groups and active citizens to
self-mobilize and self-organize without being confined by mainstream media
and traditional organizations. However, adopting new media and information
technologies in collective or connective action requires citizen activists
to operate under different premises and may expose them to police
surveillance and internal conflict. The question remains about whether and
how digital media empower or constrain the capacity of social movements.

This session seeks to revisit the contemporary relationship between digital
media and social movements. It solicits submissions to discuss and debate
about the role of digital media in recent social movements. In particular,
we would like to address the following research questions: What is the role
of digital media in the processes of mobilization and collective action?
What are the opportunities and challenges of using new media and
information technologies for political development and progressive social
change? How does digital media adoption promote and/or hinder the
advancement of diverse social and political agendas? At the theoretical
level, how should we conceptualize the ways in which digital media expand
and/or alter our understanding of contemporary social movements?
Contributions are welcome from various methodological approaches and
geo-political contexts.
Session Organizers:
*David DUENAS-CID*, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia and Kozminski
University, Poland, david.duenas at taltech.ee
*Tin-Yuet TING*, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong,
tyting at polyu.edu.hk
*Anna DOMARADZKA*, University of Warsaw, Poland, anna.domaradzka at uw.edu.pl


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