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Tabloid Journalism
In: The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies, Forthcoming
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The Insurrectionist Playbook: Jair Bolsonaro and the National Congress of Brazil
In: Social Media and Society, Forthcoming
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Parametrizing Brexit: Mapping Twitter Political Space to Parliamentary Constituencies
In: Information, Communication, & Society, Forthcoming
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The Brexit Botnet and User-Generated Hyperpartisan News
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Serial activists: Political Twitter beyond influentials and the twittertariat
In: New media & society: an international and interdisciplinary forum for the examination of the social dynamics of media and information change, Band 18, Heft 10, S. 2359-2378
ISSN: 1461-7315
This article introduces a group of politically charged Twitter users that deviates from elite and ordinary users. After mining 20 M tweets related to nearly 200 instances of political protest from 2009 to 2013, we identified a network of individuals tweeting across geographically distant protest hashtags and revisited the term "serial activists." We contacted 191 individuals and conducted 21 in-depth, semi-structured interviews thematically coded to provide a typology of serial activists and their struggles with institutionalized power. We found that these users have an ordinary following, but bridge disparate language communities and facilitate collective action by virtue of their dedication to multiple causes. Serial activists differ from influentials or traditional grassroots activists and their activity challenges Twitter scholarship foregrounding the two-step flow model of communication. The results add a much needed depth to the prevalent data-driven treatment of political Twitter by describing a class of extraordinarily prolific users beyond influentials and the twittertariat.
Being a Serial Transnational Activist
In: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, DOI: 10.1111/jcc4.12150
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Serial Activists: Political Twitter Beyond Influentials and the Twittertariat
In: New Media and Society, Forthcoming
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Robustness and the Paradox of Bridging Organizations: The Exit Problem in Regional Water Governance Networks in Central America
In: Society and natural resources, Band 31, Heft 6, S. 683-697
ISSN: 1521-0723
Persistent Activist Communication in Occupy Gezi
In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 52, Heft 5, S. 915-933
ISSN: 1469-8684
We revisit the notion of activist persistence against the backdrop of protest communication on Twitter. We take an event-based approach and examine Occupy Gezi, a series of protests that occurred in Turkey in the early summer of 2013. By cross-referencing survey data with longitudinal Twitter data and in-depth interviews, we investigate the relationship between biographical availability, relational and organisational ties, and social and personal costs to persistent activism online and on location. Contrary to expectations, we find no clear-cut relationship between those factors and sustained commitment to participation in the occupation. We show that persistent activist communication did not feed into enduring organisational structures despite the continuous online activity observed during and beyond the peak of the Gezi occupation. The article concludes with reflections on the organisational ramifications of persistent communication and its significance in a political context posing high risks to participation in dissident politics.
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Persistent Activist Communication in Occupy Gezi
In: Sociology, Forthcoming
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Robustness and the Paradox of Bridging Organizations: The Exit Problem in Regional Water Governance Networks in Central America
In: Society & Natural Resources, Forthcoming
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