TY - JOUR
T1 - Materializing activism
AU - Hansson, Karin
AU - Pargman, Teresa Cerratto
AU - Bardzell, Shaowen
N1 - Funding Information:
The work on this special issue was conducted within the project #MeToo activism in Sweden – Development, consequences, strategies at The School of Natural Sciences, Technology and Environmental Studies at Södertörn University, funded by the Swedish Research Council (No 2018-01824). Thanks to the participants in the workshop Materializing Activism at the 17th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work ECSCW 2019 and the anonymous reviewers of the articles in this special issue.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/12
Y1 - 2021/12
N2 - Online activism showcases how available digital tools allow social movements to emerge, scale up, and extend globally by fundamentally enabling new forms of power. This special issue brings together eight research articles that engage with the collaborative efforts embedded in various types of activism by studying features such as the socio-technical systems involved; how the activism is organized; relations between traditional and social media; and the complex network of systems, information, people, values, theories, histories, ideologies, and aesthetics that constitutes such activisms. The articles show the spaces in which this activism materializes, and particularly their situation in several intersecting dimensions including motivation, culture, language, and infrastructure. Together, these articles reflect the methodological breadth required to materialize online activism and the need to develop a more nuanced conceptualization of the media ecologies involved. By mapping out how activism is enabled and constrained by human-computer interfaces, this special issue contributes to open up the black box of online activism.
AB - Online activism showcases how available digital tools allow social movements to emerge, scale up, and extend globally by fundamentally enabling new forms of power. This special issue brings together eight research articles that engage with the collaborative efforts embedded in various types of activism by studying features such as the socio-technical systems involved; how the activism is organized; relations between traditional and social media; and the complex network of systems, information, people, values, theories, histories, ideologies, and aesthetics that constitutes such activisms. The articles show the spaces in which this activism materializes, and particularly their situation in several intersecting dimensions including motivation, culture, language, and infrastructure. Together, these articles reflect the methodological breadth required to materialize online activism and the need to develop a more nuanced conceptualization of the media ecologies involved. By mapping out how activism is enabled and constrained by human-computer interfaces, this special issue contributes to open up the black box of online activism.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10606-021-09412-5
DO - 10.1007/s10606-021-09412-5
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:85117783244
SN - 0925-9724
VL - 30
SP - 617
EP - 626
JO - Computer Supported Cooperative Work: CSCW: An International Journal
JF - Computer Supported Cooperative Work: CSCW: An International Journal
IS - 5-6
ER -