Sumários

Attendance to the conference of Prof Cas Mudde

15 Março 2021, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

The students were invited to attende the conference that Professor Cas Mudde was giving on 'The far right today'.

Today class was supposed to deal with the topic of digital populism and this conference, which time coincided with the class, was a unique opportunity for students to listen to the speech of one of the most important scholar in this area.

Students participated actively in the eent, some of them also asking questions and intervining in the debate.

The program of the UC was slighlty adapted according to this change and all the topics moved of a week.

Class 4.- Methods of study of social movements in the digital era: digital sources, digital ethnography, mixed methodologies for mixed trajectories of activism

8 Março 2021, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

Class 4

Review of topics previously discussed

Concusion of the class 3 (problems of digital activism)

Methods of study of social movements in the digital era: digital sources, digital ethnography, mixed methodologies for mixed trajectories of activism

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)

Della Porta, Donatella. 2014. 'Social Movement Studies and Methodological Pluralism: An Introduction. In Methodological Practices in Social Movement Research, by Donatella della Porta . Oxford University Press (no repositório)

Lane, Jeffrey. 2016. 'The Digital Street: Na Ethnographic Study of Networked Street Life in Harlem', American Behavioral Scientist 60(1): 43-58 (no repositório)

Mattoni, Alice. 2017. 'A Situated Understanding of Digital Technologies in Social Movements. Media Ecology and Media Practice Approaches'. Social Movement Studies 16 (4): 494-505 (no repositório)

Mosca, Lorenzo. 2014. 'Methodological Practices in Social Movement Online Research'. In Methodological Practices in Social Movement Research. Oxford University Press, by Donatella della Porta (ed), pp. 398-417

Brooker, P. et al. 2018. 'Researching with Twitter timeline data: A demonstration via ''everyday'' sociopolitical talk around welfare provision', Big Data & Society 1-13

Luhtakallio, E. and N. Eliasoph. 2014. 'Ethnography of Politics and Political Communication: Studies in Sociology and Political Science', The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication, Edited by Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, pp. 1-11.

Pink, S. et al. 2016. Digital Ethnography. Principles and Preactice. Thousand Oaks: SAGE.

Digital Activism

1 Março 2021, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

Digital Activism II - Potentialities and limitations, main problems, virtual vs traditional civil society;
Digital Activism III - Policing protest and public order in the digital era: how has demonstrations and conflicts' control change according to the digital turn in social movements' repertoire.
Review of the past topics

Review of class 1 - class 2: introduction to digital activism

22 Fevereiro 2021, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

Review of class 1

Class 2

Digital activism I - What has changed in social movements' dynamics with the digital? Relationship between social movements and traditional and new media, main debates and challenges

Suggested literature

Accornero, G. 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

Class 1 - Introduction to the course and presentations/Introduction to social movement studies

8 Fevereiro 2021, 18:00 • Rita Sousa

Introduction to the course - Evaluation system, schedule, division of groups and assignment of topics for the oral presentations.
Social movements, an introduction - What they are; when, why and how they emerge; how they act, how we can study them, what are their consequences.

Suggested literature

Bosi, Lorenzo, Marco Giugni e Katrin Uba. 2016. The consequence of social movements. Cambridge University Press

della Porta, Donatella, e Mario Diani. 1998 (nova edição, 2020). Social Movements: An introduction. Oxford : Blackwell Publishers

Fillieule, Olivier, e Guya Accornero. 2016. Social Movement Studies in Europe. The State of the Art. Oxford/New York (prefácio, introdução, conclusões)

Tarrow, S. 2011. Power in Movement. Social Movements and Contentious Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.1-29; pp. 196-2014.