People Matter: The Weight of Individual Representation in the Social Network Era and Its Role In International Social Movements

• In Event: Online Activism and Social Movements

Brief Overview

The networks and platforms of social media are an apparatus instrumental in the empowerment of the person as an actor via trending of content, mobilization, and expanding issue-linkages and solidarity in global political discourse and activism.

Authors

• Andiara Souza Lima Piiparinen, Cleveland State University

• Liam O'Brien, Cleveland State University

• Darlene Nichole Moorman, Cleveland State University