Media are central to the dynamics of protest and social movements. Contemporary social
movements face a shifting environment composed of new media technologies and platforms …

Studies adopting the media ecology metaphor to investigate social movements form a
promising strand of literature that has emerged in the last years to overcome the …

This book is an extensive investigation of the complexities, ambiguities and shortcomings of
contemporary digital activism. The author deconstructs the reductionism of the literature on …

Mobile technologies such as smartphones and tablets have been rapidly adopted
worldwide. Mobile media are now the primary online connection for most individuals …

As a social media platform, Instagram has a strong influence on youth culture, identity, and
perceptions of the world, with the application serving not only for youth to follow accounts …

From the Arab Spring and los indignados in Spain, to Occupy Wall Street (and beyond),
large-scale, sustained protests are using digital media in ways that go beyond sending and …

The recent debate about the digitalization of museums and new technologies has become
increasingly important among tourism scholars. Digital innovation and virtual environments …

Social media are often criticized as serving as a source of misinformation, but in this study
we examine how they may also function to correct misperceptions on an emerging health …

The extensive use of social media for protest purposes was a distinctive feature of the recent
protest events in Spain, Greece, and the United States. Like the Occupy Wall Street …

The framing question for this chapter is: How have both the new participatory turn and
individualisation changed, and how do organisations and movements mobilise participants …