Twitter campaigns attacking those who make racist or xenophobic statements are valuable,
raising the public profile of opinions that will not tolerate racism in any form. They also …

Studies point to the positive role Twitter can play in social justice campaigns. Using Critical
Discourse Analysis, this paper looks in detail at one such case: a racist call-out in Canada …

The social media revolution has affected all areas, including activism. However, there is
scepticism about its emancipatory capacity, and it is considered by some to be a distorted …

This study examines creative uses of emerging image-based social media for informal
language learning. Adopting the ecological concept of affordances, it investigates new …

It is widely established that social media afford social movement (SM) organizations new
ways of organizing. Critical studies point out, however, that social media use may also …

This discourse analytical article deals with the power relations between social media
corporations and content creators in the context of monetization schemes of social media …

The starting point of this book is an article in which Stefania Milan and I set the scene, link
data activism to the tradition of citizens' media and lay out the fundamental questions …

Young People and the Future of News traces the practices that are evolving as young
people come to see news increasingly as something shared via social networks and social …

While political protest is essentially a visual expression of dissent, both social movement
research and media studies have thus far been hesitant to focus on visual social media data …

From the Arab Spring to the Occupy movement and the Gezi Park protests, major
contemporary protest movements have been accompanied by intense social media activity …