ABSTRACT Following Fridays for Future's transnational mobilization, research into digital
environmental and climate activism has rapidly grown. We contribute to the solidification of …

Social movement organizations (SMOs) increasingly rely on Twitter to create new and viral
communication spaces alongside newsworthy protest events and communicate their …

Emerging literature on social media influencers (SMIs) identifies their potential to help
brands gain attention and build credibility with consumers, in particular as brands respond to …

How should we fix digital technologies to support democracy instead of undermining it? In
Designing for Democracy, Jennifer Forestal argues that accurately evaluating the …

Rural studies now has a well-established corpus of work exploring how rural spaces and
practices become (re) presented within various media and how these representations serve …

'The internet is made of cats' is a half-jokingly made claim. Today, animals of all shapes and
sizes inhabit our digital spaces, including companion animals, wildlife, feral animals and …

We propose a three-pronged framework to study discourses surrounding social media
activism initiated by networked counterpublics: personalized expressions that share stories …

During the summer of 2018, a measles outbreak hit Europe, resulting in infections and
deaths. Reports link the outbreak to increasing vaccine hesitancy fueled partly by anti …

Recent research has damped initial promises for democratic deliberation in social media
arenas. Empirical studies find only low degrees of direct reciprocal interaction among …

This study provides a network perspective to segment social-mediated publics in digital
activism based on social media users' influence on the information dissemination process …