https://toarcheio.org To Archeio project site Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:42:02 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://toarcheio.org/items/using-twitter-to-mobilize-protest-action-online-mobilization-patterns-and-action-repertoires-in-the-occupy-wall-street-indignados-and-aganaktismenoi-movements/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:37 +0000 http://arc.local/items/using-twitter-to-mobilize-protest-action-online-mobilization-patterns-and-action-repertoires-in-the-occupy-wall-street-indignados-and-aganaktismenoi-movements/ Continued]]> The extensive use of social media for protest purposes was a distinctive feature of the recent protest events in Spain, Greece, and the United States. Like the Occupy Wall Street protesters in the United States, the indignant activists of Spain and Greece protested against unjust, unequal, and corrupt political and economic institutions marked by the arrogance of those in power. Social media can potentially change or contribute to the political communication, mobilization, and organization of social movements. To what extent did these three movements use social media in such ways? To answer this question a comparative content analysis of tweets sent during the heydays of each of the campaigns is conducted. The results indicate that, although Twitter was used significantly for political discussion and to communicate protest information, calls for participation were not predominant. Only a very small minority of tweets referred to protest organization and coordination issues. Furthermore, comparing the actual content of the Twitter information exchanges reveals similarities as well as differences among the three movements, which can be explained by the different national contexts.

]]> https://toarcheio.org/items/youtube-young-people-and-the-socioeconomic-crises-in-greece/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:25:37 +0000 http://arc.local/items/youtube-young-people-and-the-socioeconomic-crises-in-greece/ Continued]]> The overriding aim of this paper is to analyse Greek adolescents’ digital video making and sharing, the voices they represent in their videos, the dialogical interactions they evoke, and how this activity relates to their everyday lives as they traverse the crises that have taken hold in their country. A focused search of YouTube content was conducted which yielded five videos for analysis. These texts were ‘re-read’ using multimodal analysis and the resulting ‘texts-on-texts’ were analysed using thematic analysis. Via the creation of YouTube videos young people visually convey and communicate their representations of the crises and provide a rich analysis of how the following themes define their lived-experiences: (a) ‘unoccupied youth and occupied dreams yield a sacrificed generation’; (2) ‘blanket condemnation of powerbrokers, their messengers, and mesmerizing mediums’; and, (3) ‘hypnagogia and the insidious enslavement of the psyche’.

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