Digital activism. New media, dataification and social movements 3500-FAKM-AK-scc
The following issues and research problems will be discussed during the classes: 1. sociological theories of social movements (collective behavior, resource mobilization, political process model, new social movements, relational approaches); 2. concepts of digital media (new media, alternative media, medialization of protest); 3. social mobilization by the use of digital communication technologies; 4. practices and modes of action of hacktivists; 5. engaged citizen journalism; 6. social movements in communication and internet networks, movements with a network structure; 7. logics of conective action, network models of organization; 8. social action in hybrid online/offline space; 9. activism in social media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok and other platforms; 10. activism in hybrid media - ways of using the multiplicity of communication channels; 11. citizen marketing, i.e. promoting values in digital space; 12. digital space as a common good and a basis for everyday action and mobilization for protest; 13. infrastructure as a resource for power actors; 14. protests in defence of free access to digital content; 15. analytic activism as the use of digital platforms and dataification technologies; 16. advocacy in digital media; 17. reactive and proactive data activism; 18. online surveillance of social movements and forms of resistance; 19. algorithmization of socio-political life; 20. digital modes of knowledge production in social movements; 21. bottom-up forms of datafication in environmental and climate movements.
Type of course
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Learning outcomes
K_W01 Is aware of ongoing theoretical and methodological disputes conducted in modern sociology; is reflective and critical of various positions
K_W02 Has in-depth knowledge about social structures and selected social institutions as well as their interrelations
K_W03 Has in-depth knowledge about the types of social ties and mechanisms supporting collective governance
K_W04 Is aware of the importance of a reflective and critical approach to the results of social research, analyses and research procedures
K_W05 Has in-depth knowledge about major international and domestic sociological research pertaining to selected areas of social reality or sub-domains of sociology
K_W06 Has in-depth knowledge of norms and rules governing social structures and institutions
K_W07 Has in-depth knowledge about the functioning and management of various types of organizations
K_W08 Is reflective and critical in interpreting the processes occurring in Polish as well as global society and their consequences for social attitudes and institutions
K_U01 Can critically select information and materials for academic work, using various sources in Polish and a foreign language as well as modern technologies
K_U02 Can independently form and verify judgments about the causes of selected social phenomena
K_U03 Can use theoretical categories and research methods in the description and analysis of social and cultural changes in modern societies, as well as their consequences
K_U04 Can relate an academic text to the problems of social life and its empirical studies
K_U05 Can prepare a presentation of a selected problem or study in Polish and in a foreign language
Bibliography
Literatura obowiązkowa:
19.02. Wprowadzenie
5.03. Lievrouw, L. (2012) Media alternatywne i zaangażowanie społeczne. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, s. 189-220.
19.03. Lievrouw, L. (2012) Media alternatywne i zaangażowanie społeczne. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, s. 125-151.
26.03. Castells, M. (2013) Sieci oburzenia i nadziei. Ruchy społeczne w erze Internetu. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, s. 169-176 oraz 209-228.
9.04. Podział na grupy czytelnicze! Grupa 1, Facebook: Tsatsou, P. (2018) ‘Social Media and Informal Organisation of Citizen Activism: Lessons From the Use of Facebook in the Sunflower Movement’, Social Media and Society, 4(1), s. 1–12. Grupa 2, Twitter: Hopke, J. E. (2015) ‘Hashtagging Politics: Transnational Anti-Fracking Movement Twitter Practices’, Social Media and Society, 1(2), s. 1–12. Grupa 3, Instagram: Molder, A. L. et al. (2021) ‘Framing the Global Youth Climate Movement: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Greta Thunberg’s Moral, Hopeful, and Motivational Framing on Instagram’, International Journal of Press/Politics. Grupa 4, TikTok: Hautea, S. et al. (2021) ‘Showing They Care (Or Don’t): Affective Publics and Ambivalent Climate Activism on TikTok’, Social Media and Society, 7(2), s. 1–14.
23.04. Brylewska, O., Chałubiński, P. and Stępniowska, K. (2014) ‘ACTA – Źródła protestu’, in Jurczyszyn, Ł. et al. (eds) Obywatele ACTA. Gdańsk: Europejskie Centrum Solidarności, s. 14–39.
14.05. Karpf, D. (2016) Analytic Activism. Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, s. 59-92.
28.05. Renzi, A. and Langlois, G. (2015) ‘Data Activism’, in Langlois, G., Redden, J., and Elmer, G. (eds) Compromised Data. From Social Media to Big Data. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, s. 202–225.
11.06. Gutierrez, M. (2018) Data Activism and Social Change. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, s. 49-96.
25.06. Zaliczenie – prezentacje grupowe.
Literatura dodatkowa:
• Bennett, W. L. and Segerberg, A. (2013) The Logic of Connective Action. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Dencik, L., Hintz, A. and Cable, J. (2016) ‘Towards data justice? The ambiguity of anti-surveillance resistance in political activism’, Big Data and Society, 3(2), s. 1-12.
• Earl, J. and Kimport, K. (2011) Digitally Enabled Social Change. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
• Jemielniak, D. and Przegalińska, A. (2020) Społeczeństwo współpracy. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar.
• Jurczyszyn, Ł. et al. (eds) (2014) Obywatele ACTA. Gdańsk: Europejskie Centrum Solidarności.
• Karpf, D. (2016) Analytic Activism. Digital Listening and the New Political Strategy. Oxford: Oxford University Press
• Melgaco, L. and Monaghan, J. (eds) (2018) Protests in the Information Age. Social Movements, Digital Practices and Surveillance. London and New York: Routledge.
• Milan, S. (2015) ‘When Algorithms Shape Collective Action: Social Media and the Dynamics of Cloud Protesting’, Social Media and Society, 1(2), s. 1-10.
• Nunes, R. (2014) Organisation of the Organisationless: The Question of Organisation After Networks. Berlin: PML Books.
• Penney, J. (2017) The Citizen Marketer. Promoting Opinion in the Social Media Age. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Sun, Y. and Huang, V. G. (2021) ‘Embedded data activism: the institutionalization of a grassroots environmental data initiative in China’, Chinese Journal of Communication. Routledge, s. 1-23.
• Treré, E. (2019) Hybrid Media Activism: Ecologies, Imaginaries, Algorithms. London: Routledge.
• Tufekci, Z. (2017) Twitter and Tear Gas. The Power and Fragility of Networked Protests. New Haven & London: Yale University Press.
• Wróblewski, M. and Goszczyński, W. (2020) ‘Konflikty wokół monitoringu jakości powietrza w Polsce. Infrastruktury, standardy i dane’, Studia Socjologiczne, 239(4), s. 155-182.
• Zaród, M. (2017) ‘Hakerzy i kolektywy hakerskie w Polsce. Od operacjonalizacji do laboratoriów i stref wymiany’, Studia Socjologiczne, 1(224), s. 225–252.
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