Sumários
Aula prática
5 novembro 2026, 18:00 • Guya Accornero
Class 6
29 outubro 2026, 18:00 • Guya Accornero
Methods to study social movements in the digital era
Digital sources
Digital situated ethnography
Frame analysis in the digital public sphere
Network analysis in the digital sphere
Digital surveys and questionnaires
Digital populism and techno-libertarianism
21 outubro 2026, 18:20 • Guya Accornero
Digital populism and techno-libertarianism
Techno-populism and techno-libertarianism
The myth of direct democracy and its digital declination: platform movements and parties
Aula 3
8 outubro 2026, 18:00 • Guya Accornero
Waves of protest in a digitized global world
New-new social movements: from ‘occupy’ to anti-austerity
Arab Spring: the ‘Twitter Revolution’
Digital activism in authoritarian contexts
Old claims and new identities: digital feminism and unionism
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)