Sumários

Oral Presentations

3 Maio 2021, 18:00 Rita Sousa


Final oral presentations and discussion

Oral Presentation

26 Abril 2021, 18:00 Rita Sousa


Oral presentations on the topics od digital activism, populism and digital populism, pro-choice movements.

Direct democracy and digital citizenship

19 Abril 2021, 18:00 Rita Sousa


Class 8 - April 19

  • Social movements challenging representative democracy - The role of digital in direct and deliberative forms of democracy, direct democracy and populism, challenges and debates)
  • Blurring the boundaries between social movements and institutions - Digital citizenship and digital democracy, digital public sphere' and contentious expertise.

Class 9 - Waves of protest in a digitized global world

12 Abril 2021, 18:00 Rita Sousa


- Waves of protest in a digitized global world: from the Arab Spring to the Belarusian protests, passing through 'Occupy', 'Indignados', 'Anti-Austerity movements' and more.

Suggested literature

Accornero, G. and Ramos Pinto P. (2015), 'Mild Mannered'? Protest and Mobilisation in Portugal in Times of Crisis', West European Politics 38(3): 491-515 (no repositório)

Accornero, Guya. 2017. The 'Mediation' of the Portuguese Anti-Austerity Protest Cycle. Media Coverage and its Impact', in Media Representations of Anti-Austerity Protests in the EU: Grievances, Identities and Agency, ed. by Tao Papaioannou and Suman Gupta. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 165-188 (no repositório)

Ardıç, Nurullah. 2012. 'Understanding the 'Arab Spring': Justice, Dignity, Religion and International Politics', Afro Eurasian Studies 1(1): 8-52 (no repositório)

Beissinger, M. '"Conventional" and "Virtual" Civil Societies in Autocratic Regimes', Comparative Politics 49(3): 351-371 (no repositório)

Cardoso, Gustavo, Guya Accornero, Tiago Lapa e Joana Azevedo. 2017. 'Social Movements, participation and crisis in Europe', in Europe's crisis, ed. by Manuel Castells, Olivier Bouin, Joao Caraca, Gustavo Cardoso, John Thompson and Michel Wieviorka. Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 405-427 (no repositório)

Carvalho, Tiago Martin Portos. 2019. 'Alliance building and eventful protests: Comparing Spanish and Portuguese trajectories under the Great Recession', Social Movement Studies (no repositório)

Dolata, U. and J.F. Schrape. 2016. 'Masses, Crowds, Communities, Movements: Collective Action in the Internet Age', Social Movement Studies 15(1): 1-18 (no repositório)

Earl J, Kimport K. (2011). Digitally Enabled Social Change: Activism in the Internet Age. Cambridge: MIT Press (no repositório)

Flesher Fominaya, C. (2014), 'Debunking Spontaneity: Spain's 15-M/Indignados as Autonomous Movement', Social Movement Studies 14(2): 142-163 (no repositório)

Joyce, M. ed. 2010. Digital Activism Decoded. The New Mechanics of Change. NYC: International Debate Education Association (no repositório)

Klein, A. 2015. 'Vigilante Media: Unveiling Anonymous and the Hacktivist Persona in the Global Press', Communication Monographs 82(3): 379-401 (no repositório)

Lee, Francis. 2018. 'Internet alternative media, movement experience, and radicalism: the case of post-Umbrella Movement Hong Kong', Social Movement Studies 17(2): 219-233 (no repositório)

McDonald, K. 2015. 'From Indymedia to Anonymous: rethinking action and identity in digital cultures', Information, Communication & Society 18(8): 968-928 (no repositório)

Owen, S. 2017. 'Monitoring social media and protest movements: ensuring political order through surveillance and surveillance discourse', Social Identities Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 23(6): 688-700.

Poell, T. 2019. 'Social media, temporality, and the legitimacy of protest', Social Movement Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14742837.2019.1605287 (no repositório)

Tejerina, Benjamin et al. (eds.) 2013. 'From indignation to occupation: a new wave of global mobilization', special issue in Current Sociology 61(4) (no repositório)

Trmayne, M. 2014. 'Anatomy of Protest in the Digital Era: A Network Analysis of Twitter and Occupy Wall Street', Social Movement Studies 13(1): 110-126 (no repositório)

Digital, right wing movements and populism - Digital Party

22 Março 2021, 18:00 Rita Sousa


  • Digital, right wing movements and populism - The 'affinity relationship' between new technologies and populism: main questions and debates.
  • Discussion on actuality.

    Suggested literature

    Aslandis, Paris. 2017. 'Populism and Social Movements'. In Oxford Handbook of Populism, by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser et al. (eds.).

    De Blasio, E. and M. Sorice. 2018. 'Populism between direct democracy and the technological myth', Palgrave Communication 4(15): 1-11.

    Gerbaudo, P. 2018. 'Social media and populism: an elective affinity?', Media, Culture & Society 40(5): 745-753.

    Govil, N. and A.K. Baishya. 2018. 'The Bully in the Pulpit: Autocracy, Digital Social Media, and Right-wing Populist Technoculture', Communication Culture & Critique 11: 67-84.

    Kriesi, Hanspeter and Takkis Papas. 2015. Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession, Colchester: ECPR Press (chap. 10-11)

    Schroeder, R. 2018. 'Digital media and the rise of right-wing populism', in Social Theory after the Internet. Media, Technology, and Globalization. London: UCL Press, pp. 60-81 (full book available here: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10040801/1/Social-Theory-after-the-Internet.pdf)

    Waisbord, S. and A. Amado. 2017. 'Populist communication by digital means: presidential Twitter in Latin America' , Information, Communication & Society 20(9): 1330-1346.