From the Iranian green movement (2009) through London riots (2011) and recent anti-hijab protests in Iran, protest movements have been accompanied by considerable social media activity globally. Social users involved quick production distribution of audio-visuals online with hashtags, rumors, sometimes fabricated information. The impact these demonstrates that can potentially play an important ...

Over the last decade, a number of progressive social movements around world have embraced peer production principles such as collaboration, co-production, and self-organization. This chapter investigates consequences for protest, looking at how reshuffles “remediates” change activism today. First, it traces historical trajectory has come to permeate three decades, linking distinct approaches or...

This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Information, Communication, and Society following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version [Garrett, R. K. (2006). Protest in an Information Society: A Review of Literature on Social Movements and New ICTs. Information, Communication and Society, 9(2), 202-224.] is available online at: h...

Social media have provided instrumental means of communication in many recent political protests. The efficiency of online networks in disseminating timely information has been praised by many commentators; at the same time, users are often derided as "slacktivists" because of the shallow commitment involved in clicking a forwarding button. Here we consider the role of these peripheral online p...

Protests can play a crucial role in contributing to social change. In many countries that have transitioned from authoritarian more democratic forms of governance, protests demanded accountability for human rights crimes. This article focuses on Indonesia’s longest-running protest, Kamisan. protest is contrasted with one the most recognisable internationally – Mothers Plaza de Mayo Argentina wh...

Do protests increase political engagement among the general public? It is often necessary for social movements to induce widespread political engagement in order to gain leverage over elected officials, but this consequence of protest activity has never been tested or verified. Indeed, empirical research on the public effects of protests has largely been handicapped by methodological limitation...

Analyzing oppositional social movements in the context of municipal immigration ordinances, the authors examine whether the explanatory power of resource mobilization, political process, and strain theories of social movements' impact on policy outcomes differs when considering proactive as opposed to reactive movements. The adoption of pro-immigrant (proactive) ordinances was facilitated by th...