Social Media and the Organization of Collective Action: Using Twitter to Explore the Ecologies of Two Climate Change Protests

被引:385
作者
Segerberg, Alexandra [1 ]
Bennett, W. Lance [2 ]
机构
[1] Stockholm Univ, Dept Polit Sci, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden
[2] Univ Washington, Dept Commun, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
基金
瑞典研究理事会;
关键词
D O I
10.1080/10714421.2011.597250
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 [文学]; 0503 [新闻传播学];
摘要
The Twitter Revolutions of 2009 reinvigorated the question of whether new social media have any real effect on contentious politics. In this article, the authors argue that evaluating the relation between transforming communication technologies and collective action demands recognizing how such technologies infuse specific protest ecologies. This includes looking beyond informational functions to the role of social media as organizing mechanisms and recognizing that traces of these media may reflect larger organizational schemes. Three points become salient in the case of Twitter against this background: (a) Twitter streams represent crosscutting networking mechanisms in a protest ecology, (b) they embed and are embedded in various kinds of gatekeeping processes, and (c) they reflect changing dynamics in the ecology over time. The authors illustrate their argument with reference to two hashtags used in the protests around the 2009 United Nations Climate Summit in Copenhagen.
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