Social Media & Civic Engagement
PMMA 5201 Spring 2018 Syllabus
Course books
Tim Highfield – Social Media and Everyday Politics, Polity Press.
James Jasper – Protest: A Cultural Introduction to Social Movements, Polity Press.
Week 1 – Social Movements: The basics
Goodwin, J., & Jasper, J. M. (Eds.). (2014). Editors Introduction in The social movements reader: Cases and concepts. John Wiley & Sons. (PDF BB)
Wikipedia Entry for Social Movements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_movement
Snow, David. 2004. “Social Movements as Challenges to Authority: Resistance to an Emerging Conceptual Hegemony.” Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change 25: 3-25 (PDF BB)
Social movements | Society and Culture | MCAT | Khan Academy – https://youtu.be/y7YPTD7QwR4
Week 2 – Social Media: Changing the world with technology
Highfield Chapter 1
A good booklet on how many of our fundamental technologies work is McNamee et al, How the Internet Works: A guide for policy-makers. European Digital Rights. Also check out Julien Hopkins: How to Define Social Media – An Academic Summary.
Kidd, Dustin and K. McIntosh. 2016. “Social Media and Social Movements.” Sociology Compass 10(9): 785-794 (PDF BB)
Suh, C. S., Vasi, I. B., & Chang, P. Y. (2017). How social media matter: Repression and the diffusion of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Social Science Research. http://daneshyari.com/article/preview/5047076.pdf
Clay Shirky, “The Political Power of Social Media.” http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67038/clay-shirky/the-political-power-of-social-media
Max Lewontin, “Five times Internet activism made a difference” http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2016/0105/Five-times-Internet-activism-made-adifference/
Aaron Smith (Pew Research Center), “Civic Engagement in the Digital Age.” http://www.pewinternet.org/2013/04/25/civic-engagement-in-the-digital-age/
The Digital CultureSHIFT: From Scale to Power. http://centerformediajustice.org/digital-cultureshift-from-scale-to-power/
Marisa Franco, B. Loewe and Tania Unzueta, “How We Make Change is Changing: Open Source Campaigns for the 21st Century” https://medium.com/organizer-sandbox/how-we-make-changeis-changing-part-i-5326186575e6 and https://medium.com/@marisa_franco/how-we-makechange-is-changing-part-ii-7a5ca6170a9e#.jpy2t9x6c
Zeynep Tufekci, “Is The Internet Good or Bad? Yes.” https://medium.com/matter/is-the-internetgood-or-bad-yes-76d9913c6011#.84en6mshr
Clay Shirky, “How Social Media can Make History.” https://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history
The Internet: Wires, Cables & Wifi – https://youtu.be/ZhEf7e4kopM
Week 3 – Civil Disobedience & Public Space
Thoreau (1849) Civil Disobedience
King (1963) Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Video
Episode #083 Henry David Thoreau – https://youtu.be/Kl1Ao4PJa-I
Civil Disobedience – https://youtu.be/elrTpoY6AYQ
Thoreau and Civil Disobedience – https://youtu.be/gugnXTN6-D4
Martin Luther King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail – https://youtu.be/s5Y-64GJT8E
Is The Internet a Public Place? – https://youtu.be/FmZbdaqGqlc
Other Stuff
Badalge (2017) Our phones make us feel like social-media activists, but they’re actually turning us into bystanders Quartz
Magro (2017) Australians don’t loiter in public space – the legacy of colonial control by design The Conversation
Week 4 Political Rituals of Social Media
Highfield Chapter 2
Memes, Hashtags, online “temporary” movements
Astroturfing!
Milner, Ryan M. “Pop polyvocality: Internet memes, public participation, and the Occupy Wall Street movement.” International Journal of Communication 7 (2013): 34. (PDF BB)
Sharma, Sanjay. “Black Twitter?: Racial hashtags, networks and contagion.” New formations: a journal of culture/theory/politics 78.1 (2013): 46-64. (PDF BB)
Sumiala, Johanna. ““Je suis Charlie” and the Digital Mediascape: The Politics of Death in the Charlie Hebdo Mourning Rituals.” Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics 11.1 (2017): 111-126. (PDF BB)
Mann & Ferenbok (2013) New media and the power politics of sousveillance in a surveillance-dominated world. Surveillance & Society https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/view/veillance/4873
Week 5
Highfield Chapter 3
Citizen Journalism
Wall, Melissa. “Citizen journalism: A retrospective on what we know, an agenda for what we don’t.” Digital Journalism 3.6 (2015): 797-813. (PDF BB)
Kilgo, Danielle K. “Media Landscape on Tumblr: News organization convergence attributes in youth-oriented social media networks.” Digital Journalism 4.6 (2016): 784-800. (PDF BB)
Berry, Richard. “A golden age of podcasting? Evaluating serial in the context of podcast histories.” Journal of Radio & Audio Media 22.2 (2015): 170-178. (PDF BB)
Bruns, Axel, Tim Highfield, and Rebecca Ann Lind. “Blogs, Twitter, and breaking news: The produsage of citizen journalism.” Produsing theory in a digital world: The intersection of audiences and production in contemporary theory 80.2012 (2012): 15-32. (PDF BB)
Collecting social photo http://collectingsocialphoto.nordiskamuseet.se/
Somaiya, Ravi. “How Facebook is changing the way its users consume journalism.” The New York Times (2014).
Citizen Journalism is Reshaping the World: Brian Conley at TEDxMidAtlantic https://youtu.be/kY-l9UQpf0Y
Week 6 Breaking News, Scandals & Crisis
Highfield Chapter 4
Miltner, Kate M., and Nancy K. Baym. “The selfie of the year of the selfie: Reflections on a media scandal.” International Journal of Communication 9 (2015): 1701-1715. (PDF BB)
Rost, Katja, Lea Stahel, and Bruno S. Frey. “Digital social norm enforcement: Online firestorms in social media.” PloS one 11.6 (2016): e0155923. http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0155923
Stieglitz, Stefan, et al. “Sensemaking and Communication Roles in Social Media Crisis Communication.” (2017). (PDF BB)
Suran, Melissa, and Danielle K. Kilgo. “Freedom from the press? How anonymous gatekeepers on Reddit covered the Boston Marathon bombing.” Journalism Studies 18.8 (2017): 1035-1051. (PDF BB)
Julia Gillard’s “misogyny speech” in full https://youtu.be/ihd7ofrwQX0
Crisis Communication Overview https://youtu.be/JxDOAZ3DMkg
Week 7 Collective Action
Jasper Chapter 1
Highfield Chapter 5
Amenta, Edwin et al. 2010. “The Political Consequences of Social Movements.” Annual Review of Sociology 10: 287-307 (PDF BB)
Jeremy Heimans & Henry Timms, “Understanding New Power” https://hbr.org/2014/12/understanding-new-power
Evgeny Morozov, “Why Social Movements Should Ignore Social Media” https://newrepublic.com/article/112189/social-media-doesnt-always-help-social-movements
How online social movements translate to offline results https://youtu.be/_DTOc1uMOIU
Networks of Outrage and Hope – Manuel Castells https://youtu.be/X8m66tNPUb0
History Brief: The Temperance Movement https://youtu.be/08_Ho_pkUVA
Week 8 Meaning, Networks, Womans Movement
Jasper Chapters 2 & 3
Womans Movement – Staggenborg, Suzanne and Verta Taylor. 2005. “Whatever Happened to the Women’s Movement.” Mobilization 10(1): 37-52 (PDF BB)
Semiotics: Making Meaning from Signs, Symbols, Icons, Index | LittleArtTalks https://youtu.be/aGYOHKCigAo
Women in the 19th Century: Crash Course US History #16 https://youtu.be/fM1czS_VYDI
Women’s Movement USA – 1950s-60s https://youtu.be/amZD8XxTsjQ
Documentary on Women’s Liberation Movement https://youtu.be/EOsLjbpHV8M
Nicholas Christakis: The hidden influence of social networks https://youtu.be/2U-tOghblfE
Week 9 Collective Identity, LGBTQ Movement
Jasper Chapter 4 & 5
Stone, Amy L. “The Impact of Anti‐Gay Politics on the LGBTQ Movement.” Sociology Compass 10.6 (2016): 459-467. (PDF BB)
McAdam, Doug. 1986. “Recruitment to HighRisk Activism: The Case of Freedom Summer.” American Journal of Sociology 92(1): 64-90 (PDF BB)
Bernstein, Mary. 2015. “Same-Sex Marriage and the Future of the LGBT Movement: SWS Presidential Address.” Gender & Society
29(3): 321-337 (PDF BB)
“What makes you an individual is your affiliation with multiple group identities” https://youtu.be/92h2oOC5zFA
Identity Theory vs. Social Identity Theory https://youtu.be/MUs_Y3z-I7c
WHAT DO TRUMP RALLIES AND HIP HOP HAVE IN COMMON? https://youtu.be/g8TtcvoNsUI
https://youtu.be/foQrmKRUFggHow We Got Gay (Full Documentary) https://youtu.be/foQrmKRUFgg
What you need to know about the gay rights movement https://youtu.be/WcOzarSpTMk
The new frontier of LGBTQ civil rights, explained https://youtu.be/YCjDnX-Xzhg
Week 10 BLM
Garza, Alicia. “A herstory of the# blacklivesmatter movement by Alicia Garza.” The Feminist Wire 7 (2014). (PDF BB)
Jackson, Sarah J. Black Celebrity, Racial Politics, and the Press: Framing Dissent. Routledge, 2014. Conclusion (PDF BB)
Coates, T. “The case for reparations. The Atlantic June.” (2014). https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/
Ross, Janell. “How Black Lives Matter moved from a hashtag to a real political force.” The Washington Post (2015).
“Our Demand is Simple: Stop Killing Us” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/magazine/ourdemand-is-simple-stop-killing-us.html
“How Black Lives Matter moved from a hashtag to a real political force” http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/19/how-black-lives-matter-movedfrom-a-hashtag-to-a-real-political-force/
“When Black Lives Matter Met Clinton: Activists Speak Out on Challenging Candidate over Crime Record http://www.democracynow.org/2015/8/19/when_black_lives_matter_met_clinton
Black Lives Matter Organizer Explains Movement To Older White Americans Using Sailing Metaphors https://youtu.be/AIZiN65xgsM
Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement documentary (2016) https://youtu.be/eIoYtKOqxeU
Week 11 NO CLASS
Week 12 Engagement, Occupy Movement
Jasper Chapters 6 & 7
Juris, Jeffrey. 2005. “The New Digital Media and Activist Networking within AntiCorporate Globalization Movements.” Annals of the AAPSS 597(1): 189-208 (PDF BB)
Growing participatory and deliberative democracy animation (2010) https://youtu.be/dl85BhsYAcQ
Fault Lines – History of an occupation https://youtu.be/K4VLYGfGDZg
Week 13 Framing, Lifecycle of Movements
Jasper Chapter 8
Tarrow, Sidney. 1993. “Cycles of Collective Action: Between Moments of Madness and the Repertoire of Contention.” Social Science History 17(2): 281-307 (PDF BB)
Free Range Studios, “Winning the Story Wars – The Hero’s Journey.” https://vimeo.com/50791810
Center for Story-Based Strategy. “Harnessing the Power of Narrative for Social Change” http://www.storybasedstrategy.org/uploads/4/5/4/4/45442925/1-harnessingpowernarrative.1-2.pdf
Peter Murray & Steve Ma, “The Promise of Lean Experimentation.” http://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_promise_of_lean_experimentation
Week 14
Highfield Chapter 6 & 7
Will Oremus, “Who Controls Your Facebook Feed” http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/cover_story/2016/01/how_facebook_s_news_feed_algorithm_works.html
Alex Hern, “Google ‘bug’ buries competitors Yelp and TripAdvisor” http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/nov/25/google-bug-buries-yelp-tripadvisor-search
Adam Ruins Everything – Why Partisan Politics Have Been on the Rise since the 1960’s https://youtu.be/o0FnrhNx9z0
Is America More Divided Than Ever? https://youtu.be/JRa5l_LQ32s
Beware online “filter bubbles” | Eli Pariser https://youtu.be/B8ofWFx525s
Week 15
Presentations?
Week 16
Presentations?
Net Neutrality ?
Edward Walker, Michelle Miller, and Sabeel Rahman, with Jenny Weeks, “What Worked in the Fight for Net Neutrality” https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56423f2ae4b0552eb7fcec0e/t/5714ec79b654f96a65356cda/1460989050173/Gettysburg_NetNeutrality_August2015_Final.pdf
Ben Brody. “How John Oliver Transformed the Net Neutrality Debate Once and for All.” http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-26/how-john-oliver-transformed-the-netneutrality-debate-once-and-for-all
John Herrman, “The John Oliver Video Sweepstakes” http://www.theawl.com/2014/10/the-johnoliver-video-sweepstakes