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Western-based LGBTQIA+ mobilisations have often been described as both internally fragmented and isolated from other social struggles. However, recent studies show that LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans*, queer, intersex, asexual/aromantic and other) organisations have increasingly used social media to span organisational boundaries by networ...
This article proposes a joint application of online network analysis and NLP techniques to explore dynamics of “polarized intersectionality”—that is, how (mis)representations of women that develop online and at the intersection of different axes of discrimination entwine with ideological and affective polarization. We look in particular at whether...
A crucial and yet often overlooked component of social movements' potential to produce change consists of their capability to create and disseminate alternative knowledge about the world they live in and how to transform it. While social movement studies have mainly focused on what happens in the streets, a large part of movement activities aims at...
L'articolo racconta la parabola della Scienza dell'amministrazione dalla sua istituzionalizzazione nella facoltà di Giurisprudenza nel 1875 alla sua de-istituzionalizzazione nel 1935 e lo slittamento del suo oggetto, dei confini disciplinari e dello statuto scientifico. Dopo una ricostruzione della normativa concorsuale, l'articolo mostra - con l'a...
In this article we explore the discursive mobilization of movement frames within networked publics—a form of unorganized digital activism through which movement organizations, activists, and citizens politicize ordinary conversations by engaging in adversarial meaning-making dynamics online. Leaning on large-scale semantic network analysis and cont...
This paper provides empirical evidence about varying levels of trust in anti-Covid vaccines amongst Italian citizens. We problematize the issue of trust at the crossroads between three strands of literature. First, extant reflections on «infodemics» – i.e., the massive circulation of often dubious or fake information about health matters. Second, l...
The huge amount of data made available by the massive usage of social media has opened up the unprecedented possibility to carry out a data-driven study of political processes. While particular attention has been paid to phenomena like elite and mass polarization during online debates and echo-chambers formation, the interplay between online partis...
The pervasive diffusion of digital media enriches all courses of human action expanding the relational milieu in which they take place. From an analytical point of view, examining online networks constitutes a primary research task, especially in the domain of cybercrime studies. Thus, the traditional toolkit of social network analysis, already wid...
Social media play a key role in shaping citizens’ political opinion. According to the Eurobarometer, the percentage of EU citizens employing online social networks on a daily basis has increased from 18% in 2010 to 48% in 2019. The entwinement between social media and the unfolding of political dynamics has motivated the interest of researchers for...
Our interest in feminist alliances and intersectional solidarity originates from the belief that they have the potential to breed inclusive political projects and strengthen the fight against all inequalities. Given that social justice struggles are inevitably connected by the presence of interlocking systems of domination, several questions arise....
The huge amount of data made available by the massive usage of social media has opened up the unprecedented possibility to carry out a data-driven study of the human behavior. While particular attention has been paid to phenomena like group polarization during debates, echo-chambers formation and bot detection, the semantic aspect of online communi...
We analyze the case of Silvia Aisha Romano to contribute to ongoing reflections on the ways in which women, their bodies and choices are included and constructed in the current hybrid media system. In this context, mediated representations of women result from the continuous entwinement and overlapping of a variety of voices, and at the intersectio...
Social media play a pivotal role in shaping citizens political opinion. According to the Euro-barometer, the percentage of EU citizens employing online social networks to access information, on a daily basis, has increased from 18% in 2010 to 42% in 2017. The tight entwinement between social media and the unfolding of political dynamics has motivat...
Intersections between women's activism and media existed well before the digital age. In the suffragist movements as much as in the most recent feminist mobilizations, instances of women's activism are endowed with specific media artifacts; women activists perceive and exploit these technologies in different ways depending on their needs, goals, an...
The entry examines some crucial ways in which LGBTQI people take advantage of pervasive digital communications affordances in their struggle for achieving full recognition and their rights in the digital as well as in the offline social spaces. This entry proposes that an understanding of the possibilities and the challenges offered by digital medi...
Between 29 and 31 March 2019, the city of Verona hosted the thirteenth World Congress of Families (WCF) – an international event aimed at celebrating the ‘natural family’ as well as discussing the manifold challenges created for it by the contemporary socio-political context. Far from being an occasion to develop scientific and critical reflections...
In this article, we extend our understanding of fringe politics to include relational and thematic elements, namely, the relationship of far-right collective actors with their broader network and the claims made within it. Locating our analysis at the intersection of protest event and social network analysis, we focus on the far-right Movement for...
In this article we aim to contribute to the study of social movement media cultures by paying specific attention to the practices through which collective actors build specific knowledge about media as workspaces. More precisely, we analyze how knowledge about media and tech companies as discriminatory workspaces is produced starting from the very...
This paper seeks to achieve a better understanding of how and under what conditions current digital communication technologies can become an asset to the design of effective policies. In order to do so, we bridge two strands of reflection that have hitherto developed quite independently – i.e. policy design studies and researches on the use of info...
In this chapter, we use a protest field approach to explore the main facets of the contentious dynamics triggered in three hotspots of the refugee crisis—Greece, Italy, and Spain. To this aim, we employ protest event analysis, a consolidated method to explore the relations between protest and the political environment. In comparison to traditional...
This article aims to achieve a better understanding of how online networks contribute to the organization and the symbolic production of social movements using big data coming from social media platforms. It traces and compares online social and semantic networks that emerged on Twitter during two protest events organized by the feminist Italian mo...
This editorial defines big data as an inherently political object and then briefly discusses its ontological, epistemological, and methodological implications in the social sciences. Furthermore, it addresses these issues in connections with the realm of politics, political participation and political mobilization. Finally, it addresses three main...
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Starting from the assumption that knowledge becomes all the most important for movements in times of crisis, as old structures are challenged and new are to be envisaged and proved feasible, in this theoretical article we suggest ways to expand the toolkit of social movement studies in order to empirically address knowledge practices as a...
With the help of social network analysis and digital methods, we examine the virtual communities of the extreme right in six Western Democracies and we relate them to their frames of opposition to Europe. All extreme right organizations with an online presence are mapped and the structural characteristics of their relations are illustrated. Thus, w...
In spite of an increasing interest for how ICTs entwine with collective participation dynamics, the ways in which their relational and communicational potential is exploited by extreme right organizations remain overlooked. In this article, we aim at moving forward along this research avenue by focusing on how extreme right organizations and groups...
In this article, we aim at expanding the event-based and protest-centered perspective that is typically adopted to study the nexus between social media and movements. To this aim, we propose a network-based approach to explore the changing role that these tools play during the dynamic unfolding of movement processes and, more particularly, over the...
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Starting from the four comments, I here outline the overall contours of a much-needed research agenda to face the challenges that derive from three inherent features of sociotechnical processes: their diversity, generated by the simultaneous involvement of social and technical agencies; their dynamics, stemming from the continuous evolution and cha...
In this article we address the nexus between Internet and politics looking in particular at the link between social media and collective action. In making a general plea for abandoning radical approaches that either consider social media as causative of collective action or fear the spread of "slacktivism," we propose to implement current reflectio...