Social media are a broad collection of digital platforms that have radically changed the way
people interact and communicate. However, we argue that social media are not simply a …

A growing amount of content is published worldwide every day by millions of social media
users. Most of this content is public, permanent, and searchable. At the same time, the …

As democracy encounters difficulties, many citizens are turning to the domain of alternative
politics and, in so doing, making considerable use of the new communication technologies …

Since the shooting of Black teenager Michael Brown by White police officer Darren Wilson in
Ferguson, Missouri, the protest hashtag# BlackLivesMatter has amplified critiques of …

Uprisings such as the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street signal a resurgence of populist
politics in America, pitting the people against the establishment in a struggle over control of …

Cet article présente les résultats d'une étude sur les territoires dont sont originaires les
«Gilets jaunes», au début de la mobilisation. Dès le premier samedi de mobilisation, le 17 …

Recent protests have fuelled deliberations about the extent to which social media ignites
popular uprisings. In this article, we use time-series data of Twitter, Facebook, and onsite …

What attracted so many supporters of the Occupy Wall Street movement to the movement's
Facebook pages? Using a database of 1500 Facebook Occupy group pages, we analyze …

The US national response to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks accelerated the
adoption and refinement of a new repertoire of protest policing we call 'strategic …

This article argues that social media companies' power to regulate communication in the
public sphere illustrates a novel type of domination. The idea is that, since social media …