![]() Activists’ extensive use of corporate social media (such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube) has controversial consequences for collective action. Social media are understood as online media in general (since all media can be considered social see Papacharissi, 2015), but the problematic relationship emerges due to their corporate influence, through which the term “social” “obscures the unpleasant truth that ‘social media’ is the takeover of the social by the corporate” ( Baym, 2015, p. ![]() ![]() Using empirical examples and previous research (such as Metropolitan Sirens, 2011), this article conceptually explores potentials to and limits of activists’ tactics for appropriating and configuring corporate social media. Using media technologies alters the ontology of protest in controversial ways.Īctivists’ social media use can result in digitized acts of dissidence as well as (im)material alliances of humans and nonhumans against injustice (cf. Nevertheless, making police violence visible online via mobile phones can facilitate an alternative perspective that mainstream media might not broadcast. They are more inclined to become part of the media “spectacle” ( Debord, 1983) by uploading scenes of police violence on social media than they are to seek to rescue their comrade. Several activists are standing nearby, filming and photographing the scene on their mobile phones but not helping their fellow activist. ![]() A scene from a street protest in Sweden (see Figure 1) provides us with a good example: Policemen are acting violently toward a young woman. The use of technology in radical action can nevertheless prove contradictory, particularly when acting in civil disobedience. ![]() They make intensive use of media technologies to mobilize civil society across the political spectrum, organize protest, enable counter-information, and communicate a cause. All subjects Allied Health Cardiology & Cardiovascular Medicine Dentistry Emergency Medicine & Critical Care Endocrinology & Metabolism Environmental Science General Medicine Geriatrics Infectious Diseases Medico-legal Neurology Nursing Nutrition Obstetrics & Gynecology Oncology Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Otolaryngology Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care Pediatrics Pharmacology & Toxicology Psychiatry & Psychology Public Health Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine Radiology Research Methods & Evaluation Rheumatology Surgery Tropical Medicine Veterinary Medicine Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry Environmental Science Life Sciences Neuroscience Pharmacology & Toxicology Biomedical Engineering Engineering & Computing Environmental Engineering Materials Science Anthropology & Archaeology Communication & Media Studies Criminology & Criminal Justice Cultural Studies Economics & Development Education Environmental Studies Ethnic Studies Family Studies Gender Studies Geography Gerontology & Aging Group Studies History Information Science Interpersonal Violence Language & Linguistics Law Management & Organization Studies Marketing & Hospitality Music Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution Philosophy Politics & International Relations Psychoanalysis Psychology & Counseling Public Administration Regional Studies Religion Research Methods & Evaluation Science & Society Studies Social Work & Social Policy Sociology Special Education Urban Studies & Planning BROWSE JOURNALSĪctivists on the radical left have a long tradition of appropriating media technologies, divorcing them from their corporate originators, and reinventing media’s uses in ways not intended by their designers ( Croeser, 2014 Rodríguez, Ferron, & Shamas, 2014). ![]()
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