Digital Methods for Social Movement Research
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Digital Methods for Social Movement Research. / Carlsen, Hjalmar Alexander Bang; Toubøl, Jonas.
The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements. ed. / David A. Snow; Donatella della Porta; Doug McAdam. Chichster, UK : Wiley-Blackwell, 2022.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Encyclopedia chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Digital Methods for Social Movement Research
AU - Carlsen, Hjalmar Alexander Bang
AU - Toubøl, Jonas
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Digital methods have the potential to strengthen social movement studies because digital trace data have the affordances necessary to record aspects of social life related to several problems of particular prominence in social movement research, namely: (i) group formation, (ii) unexpected and consequential events, (iii) mobilization cycles, (iv) persistence of activism, and (v) within-movement interaction and negotiation. Yet, suitable data for studying these phenomena have been rare. The reason is the informal nature of most social movements, making movement populations hard to delimit and reach, as well as the difficulty of predicting mobilization so that data can be collected before, during, and after a protest event making movements' populations hard to predict: in sum, the problem of ephemeral populations. Furthermore, because many movements do not keep systematically organized records of meeting minutes and the like, the level of micro-negotiations and internal cultures are difficult to measure. In these regards, digital trace data and methods offer promising new empirical tools.
AB - Digital methods have the potential to strengthen social movement studies because digital trace data have the affordances necessary to record aspects of social life related to several problems of particular prominence in social movement research, namely: (i) group formation, (ii) unexpected and consequential events, (iii) mobilization cycles, (iv) persistence of activism, and (v) within-movement interaction and negotiation. Yet, suitable data for studying these phenomena have been rare. The reason is the informal nature of most social movements, making movement populations hard to delimit and reach, as well as the difficulty of predicting mobilization so that data can be collected before, during, and after a protest event making movements' populations hard to predict: in sum, the problem of ephemeral populations. Furthermore, because many movements do not keep systematically organized records of meeting minutes and the like, the level of micro-negotiations and internal cultures are difficult to measure. In these regards, digital trace data and methods offer promising new empirical tools.
U2 - 10.1002/9780470674871.wbespm698
DO - 10.1002/9780470674871.wbespm698
M3 - Encyclopedia chapter
BT - The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social and Political Movements
A2 - Snow, David A.
A2 - della Porta, Donatella
A2 - McAdam, Doug
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
CY - Chichster, UK
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