Sumários

Class 4

15 Outubro 2026, 18:00 • Guya Accornero

Platform democracy - invited professor Rafael Lopes

Aula 3

8 Outubro 2026, 18:00 • Guya Accornero

Waves of protest in a digitized global world 

  1. New-new social movements: from ‘occupy’ to anti-austerity  

  1. Arab Spring: the ‘Twitter Revolution’  

  1. Digital activism in authoritarian contexts 

  1. Old claims and new identities: digital feminism and unionism 

  1. Activism, ICT and knowledge production: the case of the climate movement 

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 activism The impact of digital in social movements’ dynamics and structures Relationship between social movements, traditional and new media Cyberactivism, hacktivism and data-activism Potentialities and limitations of internet in (contentious) politics Contesting big-data policies and politics

1 Outubro 2026, 18:00 • Guya Accornero

Digital activism   

  1. The impact of digital in social movements’ dynamics and structures 

  1. Relationship between social movements, traditional and new media  

  1. Cyberactivism, hacktivism and data-activism 

  1. Potentialities and limitations of internet in (contentious) politics  

  1. Contesting big-data policies and politics 

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 

Beissinger, M. ‘“Conventional” and “Virtual” Civil Societies in Autocratic Regimes’, Comparative Politics 49(3): 351-371. 

Cardoso, G. et al. 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 

Dencik, L., A. Hintz, and Z. Carey. 2018. Prediction, pre-emption and limits to dissent: Social media and big data uses for policing protests in the United Kingdom’, New Media & Society20 (4): 1433–1450 

Dolata, U. and J.F. Schrape. 2016. ‘Masses, Crowds, Communities, Movements: Collective Action in the Internet Age’, Social Movement Studies 15(1): 1-18 

Earl, J. and Kimport, K. 2013. Digitally Enabled Social Change. Activism in the Internet Age. Cambridge Massachusetts: MIT, Intro and chapter 2. Repositorio 

Joyce, M. ed. 2010. Digital Activism Decoded. The New Mechanics of Change. NYC: International Debate Education Association.  

Klein, A. 2015. ‘Vigilante Media: Unveiling Anonymous and the Hacktivist Persona in the Global Press’, Communication Monographs 82(3): 379-401. 

McDonald, K. 2015. ‘From Indymedia to Anonymous: rethinking action and identity in digital cultures’, Information, Communication & Society 18(8): 968-928. 

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 

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. 

Aula 1

24 Setembro 2026, 18:00 • Guya Accornero

Introduction to the course - Evaluation system, schedule, division of groups and assignment of topics for the oral presentations. 

 

Social movements: an introduction  

  1. Principal definitions 

  1.  Emergence of the discipline and its evolution 

  1. Main currents and approaches for social movements analysis  

  1. Social movements in the history and contemporaneity 

  1. Social movements, policies and politics 

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.