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Building a Comparative Framework for Addressing the Role of Media in the Turkish and Brazilian 2013 Protests

Fri, May 22, 9:00 to 10:15, Caribe Hilton, Conference Room 7

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Abstract

We seek to develop a comparative framework for examining the role of information and communications technologies in recent large-scale social mobilizations in areas like Turkey and Brazil. Furthering Bennett and Segerberg’s recent argument in The Logic of Connective Action (2013) that scholars and activists need to devote closer attention to the different paths taken by memes, slogans spread through platforms like Twitter, and images disseminated through various media outlets, we intend to thicken the descriptive work around these elements of large scale manifestations that have taken off in the last few years through addressing potential lines of intersection or divergence.

Issues to be addressed might include:

--the relationship between social mobilizations and national media industries within each context. This includes both assessing the degrees of censorship exercised by regimes in power (building off Hallin and Mancini’s foundational schematization of the role of the state in media systems) as well as the potential impact of protest movements on democratizing media industries.

---the trajectories of images, slogans, and memes as they travel from local context to transnational audiences. This includes building an inventory of popular expressions from various mobilizations to look at what features made them more “spreadable”.

---the role of international media outlets in mediating local mobilizations.

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