Browsing by Subject "social movements"

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    From State Terrorism to Petty Harassment: A Multi-Method Approach to Understanding Repression of Irish Republicans
    (2017) White, Robert W.; Sociology, School of Liberal Arts
    Beginning in 1969, the Provisional Irish Republican Army conducted a paramilitary campaign designed to unite Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland, creating a 32 county democratic socialist republic. The Provisional IRA’s campaign officially ended in 2005, but former Provisionals and others who followed them continue to pursue armed struggle to this day. The Provisional IRA and its successors are part of the centuries old and highly documented “resistance” of Irish people to British interference in Ireland. Over those centuries, state authorities ‒ the British, Irish, and Northern Irish governments ‒ have “resisted” the dissent of Irish Republicans. This paper draws on three different research methodologies available to social scientists ‒ counts of events that inform quantitative analyses, intensive interviews/oral histories, and visual sociology ‒ and argues that a multi-method approach will provide a better understanding of the dynamics of “resistance” in Ireland and, more generally, social protest.
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    How Image-Based Social Media Websites Support Social Movements
    (ACM, 2017-05) Cornet, Victor P.; Hall, Natalie K.; Cafaro, Francesco; Brady, Erin L.; Human-Centered Computing, School of Informatics and Computing
    The Internet has disrupted the traditional progression of social movements. We explore common characteristics of image-based activism on Instagram by qualitatively analyzing 300 Instagram posts from three social movements: Black Lives Matter, the battle against defunding Planned Parenthood, and the backlash against the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act. We found that common types of images emerged among the three social movements, indicating a possible underlying pattern in social movement content posted on Instagram. Users also engage in workarounds to leverage Instagram toward a collective goal, going beyond the features offered by the platform to communicate their message. These findings have implications for future work studying social movement theories online.
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    “Populism” versus “Popular”: A Response to Ziarek’s “Populism—A Crux or Crisis of Politics?”
    (Project Muse, 2019) Demirel-Pegg, Tijen; Political Science, School of Liberal Arts
    This article discusses two main issues Ziarek highlights regarding populist social movements. The first one is the exclusionary stance populist movements take when contending for power in a democratic society. The second one is the repressive response to contenders when populist movements are in power. The underlying characteristic in both issues is that populists movements assume an anti-pluralist stance against other contending alternatives. Therefore, the distinction between “popular” and “populist” is an important one.
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    SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2011-04-08) Taylor, Alexis C.
    Through studying the interworkings of social movements and how they alter the perceptions of the mainstream society this study looks to investigate how social movements create social change. This study explores four different social movements spanning multiple decades to see what elements amongst all of them are consistent and what elements differ. The four social movements chosen are: the Civil Rights Movement, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered (LGBT) Movement, the Hip-Hop Movement and the Marijuana Legalization Movement. These four movements are used as a general basis to represent not only the similarities and differences of social movements, but also to represent the struggle that all social movements face to gain acceptance socially, culturally, and politically in the mainstream. The study also looks to examine how movements use tools, specifically media, to gain momentum and become more widespread throughout the populations. The media that I look at as wielded by social movements to display their message range from radio and newspapers to more modern devices of media such as television and internet. I look forward to advancing my research on social change and the catalysts that enable it and hope to compound on my research especially the power of media aspect and investigate psychological implications of media for social change.
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    ‘You can’t repeal regret’: targeting men for mobilisation in Ireland’s abortion debate
    (Bristol University Press, 2021-02) Hunt, Kate; Friesen, Amanda; Political Science, School of Liberal Arts
    This study explores how social movement organisations involved in the abortion debate in the Republic of Ireland attempted to appeal to men in their campaign messages before the 2018 referendum on the Eighth Amendment concerning abortion. We scrape social movement organisations’ Twitter accounts to conduct quantitative and qualitative content analyses of images and videos the organisations posted, and find evidence that social movement organisations sometimes extended their frames to men as voters. Social movement organisations evoked themes of hegemonic masculinity in their imagery and messaging, though these themes were not a large portion of overall campaign tweets and there were distinct differences in how this was done by the two organisations we study. Previous research suggests anti-abortion organisations extend their frames to incorporate ‘pro-woman’ messaging. Our research contributes by exploring the ways that frames may be extended by both anti- and pro-abortion actors to target men and mobilise masculinity in public debates over women’s rights.