186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores the profound transformations brought about by the datafication of society, and reflects on the implications this has for activism, social movements, and contentious politics.   The result is a collection of chapters that advance the field of social movement studies theoretically and empirically, enabling us to better understand these transformations and offering a... Read more

Introduction: Contentious Data in Movement

Cristina Flesher Fominaya

 

1. Data in movement: The social movement society in the age of datafication

Stefania Milan and Davide Beraldo

 

2. “The future of the internet hangs in the balance”: The perception and framing of political opportunity and threat in the contentious politics of data

Jared M. Wright

 

3. Amplification, evasion, hijacking: Algorithms as repertoire for social movements and the struggle for visibility

Emiliano Treré and Tiziano Bonini

 

4. When digital capitalism takes (on) the neighbourhood: Data activism meets place-based collective action

Vassilis Charitsis and Mikko Laamanen

 

5. Doubt to be certain: Epistemological ambiguity of data in the case of grassroots mapping of traffic accidents in Russia

Dmitry Muravyov

 

6. Coordinating and doxing data: Hong Kong protesters’ and government supporters’ data strategies in the age of datafication

Yao-Tai Li and Katherine Whitworth

 

7. Datafication and implicated networks of demobilization: Social movement demobilization in datafied societies

Chi Kwok and Ngai Keung Chan

 

8. Achieving Organizationality Through Authorship Affordances — A Communicative Episode of Telegram Polling from 2019 Hong Kong

Marilyn Poon

 

9. PROFILE: Revisiting the social movement society in a time of datafication

David S. Meyer

 

10. Data as narrative: Contesting the right to the word

Nick Couldry

 

Biography

Cristina Flesher Fominaya is Professor of Global Studies, Aarhus University. She is Editor in Chief of Social Movement Studies and founding editor of Interface Journal. Her latest books are Democracy Reloaded (2020) and Social Movements in a Globalized World (2020).

 

Stefania Milan (stefaniamilan.net) works at the intersection of political participation, technology, and governance, with emphasis on infrastructure and agency. She is Professor of Critical Data Studies at the University of Amsterdam, affiliated with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University) and the School of Transnational Governance (European University Institute).

 

Davide Beraldo is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation and at the Department of Media Studies, University of Amsterdam. His research lies at the intersection of new media studies, computational social science, and the epistemology of complexity.