Feeds from the square: live streaming, live tweeting and the self-representation of protest camps

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Gerbaudo
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Live Feeds ◽  
The Us

This chapter develops a cultural analysis of live feeds, in the forms of video or text, and their role within the protest communications of the movements of the squares of 2011. Drawing on 50 interviews with activists, on observations of protest camps and on analysis of social media material, in the Spanish indignados, and Occupy Wall Street in the US, the author highlights how live streaming and live tweeting reflect the new populist worldview introduced by the 2011 protest wave. These practices have served these movements' aims of making protest camps public and transparent places, open to the entirety of the citizenry rather than to a small tribe of activists and have allowed the movement to construct a connection with "internet occupiers", sympathisers following events from home.

Occupy Rhetoric

2018 ◽  
pp. 64-78
Author(s):  
Stephanie Vie ◽  
Daniel Carter ◽  
Jessica Meyr
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Direct Analysis ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Rhetorical Situations ◽  
Integrated Approaches ◽  
The Arab Spring

By examining three major digital activist events—the Arab Spring, the indignados movement, and Occupy Wall Street—the authors illustrate that digital activism motivates and facilitates real offline behaviors beyond slacktivism by reviewing successful strategies and outcomes that were part of each movement. Moreover, in examining the issue of slacktivism, the authors demonstrate that slacktivism is not always digital, and that the power of weak ties has demonstrable effects in protester behavior and coordination. Finally, the rhetorical situations and exigencies of these major digital activist events are examined; this is an area ripe for more direct analysis and commentary. Understanding the rhetorical situations and exigencies involved in successful digital activist events allows researchers and practitioners a better understanding of integrated approaches to public involvement using social media.

Occupy Rhetoric

2017 ◽  
pp. 179-193
Author(s):  
Stephanie Vie ◽  
Daniel Carter ◽  
Jessica Meyr
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Direct Analysis ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Digital Activism ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Rhetorical Situations ◽  
Integrated Approaches ◽  
The Arab Spring

By examining three major digital activist events—the Arab Spring, the indignados movement, and Occupy Wall Street—the authors illustrate that digital activism motivates and facilitates real offline behaviors beyond slacktivism by reviewing successful strategies and outcomes that were part of each movement. Moreover, in examining the issue of slacktivism, the authors demonstrate that slacktivism is not always digital, and that the power of weak ties has demonstrable effects in protester behavior and coordination. Finally, the rhetorical situations and exigencies of these major digital activist events are examined; this is an area ripe for more direct analysis and commentary. Understanding the rhetorical situations and exigencies involved in successful digital activist events allows researchers and practitioners a better understanding of integrated approaches to public involvement using social media.

#OccupyWallStreet

2015 ◽  
pp. 1743-1759
Author(s):  
Adam Gismondi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Online Forums ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
Activist Movements

The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, when viewed within proper historical context, can be considered part of an American tradition of higher education activism. The movement's pioneering use of social media, which was in part inspired by activists within the Arab Spring, allowed OWS to organize and disseminate information with efficiency. Social media also helped to build the connections that were made between OWS activists and those within higher education, while subsequently providing documentation of these same connections in online forums. This chapter's analysis of OWS tactics provides evidence that social media will be integral to the organization and promotion of future activist movements within higher education and beyond.

How social media matter: Repression and the diffusion of the Occupy Wall Street movement

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 282-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chan S. Suh ◽  
Ion Bogdan Vasi ◽  
Paul Y. Chang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Occupy Wall Street ◽  
Wall Street

Virtual Orientalism/Imagined Dualism (VO/ID) Expansion

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-71
Author(s):  
Aya Kamperis
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Product Service ◽  
The Us ◽  
Aesthetic Style ◽  
Post War ◽  
Insight Into

In Virtual Orientalism, Jane Naomi Iwamura extends Edward Said's theory through an analysis of the US post-war visual culture to trace the genealogy of the icon of the East she calls the ‘Oriental Monk'. The aim of the chapter is to explore the appropriation of the notion of Zen, particularly its application and exploitation as an aesthetic ‘style', and the mechanisms behind such phenomena. The chapter extends Iwamura's thesis to elaborate on the function of the Virtual Monk to question the development of its ontology in the contemporary world of neoliberalism and social media to introduce the concept of VO/ID, which has been deployed by capitalist corporations to market Zen as a lifestyle product/service. It offers an insight into the process of identification within the framework of orientalism, that is, the way in which the Self and the Other come into being, and offer Gen as a possible solution to the VO/ID expansion.

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