Technology, Media and Social Movements

Cristina Flesher Fominaya is co-Editor in Chief of Social Movement Studies, a Founding Editor of Interface Journal, and author of Social Movements and Globalization (2014). She is Reader in Social Politics and Media at Loughborough University, UK. She publishes widely on European and global social movements, hybrid parties, digital politics and media, collective identity, democracy, autonomy, and political participation.Kevin Gillan is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK, and co-Editor in Chief of Social Movement Studies. His work focuses on the generation and communication of alternative conceptions of political economy within social movements. He is currently writing a book entitled How Capitalism Matters: Economy, Polity, Society.

• 1. Navigating the technology-media-movements complex Cristina Flesher Fominaya and Kevin Gillan2. Complex contention: analyzing power dynamics within Anonymous Justus Uitermark 3. From ‘moments of madness’ to ‘the politics of mundanity’ – researching digital media and contentious collective actions in China Jun Liu4. The integrative power of online collective action networks beyond protest: Exploring social media use in the process of institutionalization Elena Pavan 5. Tweeting India’s Nirbhaya protest: a study of emotional dynamics in an online social movement Saifuddin Ahmed, Kokil Jaidka and Jaeho Cho6. Open networks and secret Facebook groups: exploring cycle effects on activists’ social media use in the 2010/11 UK student protests Alexander Hensby 7. The new information frontier: toward a more nuanced view of social movement communication Jennifer Earl and R. Kelly Garrett8. A situated understanding of digital technologies in social movements: Media ecology and media practice approaches Alice Mattoni