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From the blogosphere into the parliament: The role of digital technologies in organizing social movements
2019
Abstract In this paper, we present a process model exploring the roles played by digital technologies (DTs) in the organization of collective action (CA) of social movements (SMs) at different points in their lifecycles. The process model, which is based on an exploratory case study of the Italian Five Star Movement, relates the environmental conditions to the working logic, structure and use of DTs at three different stages of the SMs. We explain how these choices are adopted at each stage to address internal and environmental challenges and how they create further challenges to be addressed to pass to the next stage. We further explore the dynamics between the logic of connective and coll…
Due democratiche cristiane alla Consulta nazionale: Laura Bianchini e Angela Maria Guidi Cingolani
2022
Questo articolo appartiene a uno studio più ampio che mira a ricostruire una tradizione politica femminile per comprendere alcune delle ragioni persistenti dietro il divario di genere tra accesso formale e sostanziale alle decisioni. L’obiettivo finale è quello di evidenziare il ruolo e il contributo delle donne, soprattutto di quelle che sono finite nell’oblio, nella costituzione di un’Italia democratica e repubblicana fin dalle loro prime partecipazioni all’Assemblea Nazionale Consultiva. L’Archivio della Camera dei Deputati, l’Archivio dell’Istituto Sturzo e gli articoli delle riviste dell’epoca sono state le fonti primarie della ricerca.Il 25 settembre 1945 si inaugura la Consulta che r…
Attivisti 5 Stelle a Palermo: un’analisi esplorativa (paper 6.1.1.)
2014
L’intervento presenta i primi risultati di una ricerca esplorativa sugli attivisti del Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) nella città di Palermo. L’indagine sul meetup palermitano è stata condotta attraverso interviste in profondità, faccia a faccia, a 10 attivisti e a un ex attivista espulso dal M5S . Le interviste hanno permesso di cominciare a delinearne organizzazione, strategie comunicative, attività, problemi attraversati nel tempo. La traccia utilizzata per le interviste è stata elaborata da Roberto Biorcio e condivisa allo scopo di rendere i risultati della ricerca comparabili con quelli delle altre realtà italiane nelle quali è in corso. Lo schema di base è stato integrato con alcuni punti s…
The Precarization Effect
2015
What’s in the name ‘precarization’? Such a question can always be asked when we are dealing with a highly contestable concept (Gallie, 1956) or a family of concepts — as is definitely the case here, where it is also customary to speak about ‘precariousness’, ‘precarity’, and even ‘precariat’. This is a family of concepts or terms that has been defined in so many different and often incompatible ways that the answer to the question seems to greatly depend on the perspective or approach adopted. This is not as big a problem in the case of ‘precariousness’, which can be used to describe a variety of situations and events quite generally; but it makes all the difference when one refers to ‘prec…
Procesos de cambio: la huella de las mujeres en la plataforma de afectadas por las hipotecas de Valencia
2017
The changing role of students' representation in Poland: an historical appraisal
2014
Student representation in Poland has a relatively short but turbulent history. This article offers an historical appraisal of the development of student representation at the national level in the context of rapid and deep structural changes in Polish higher education. Based on a desktop analysis of official documentation, legislation, ideological declarations and background (first-hand) information provided by student leaders, the article reconstructs the establishment of the first independent self-governing student organisation in the country. In so doing, the paper pays particular attention to the emergence, institutionalisation as well as legitimacy challenges facing student bodies eith…
The Role of Social Media in Societal Change : Cases in Finland of Fifth Estate Activity on Facebook
2015
The Internet can be used to reconfigure access to information and people in ways that can support networked individuals and enhance their relative communicative power vis-à-vis other individuals and institutions, such as by supporting collective action, sourcing of information, and whistle blowing. The societal and political significance of the Internet is a matter of academic debate, with some studies suggesting a powerful role in creating a “Fifth Estate,” and other studies challenging such claims. Research on this issue has not yet comprehensively focused on social network sites and those operating in a very liberal-democratic context. Based on an embedded case study of Facebook use in …
Social Movements, Voluntary Associations and Cycles of Protest in Finland 1905-91
1992
During the 20th century five cycles of protest have emerged in Finland: 1905-18, 1928-32, 1944-48, 1966-76, and the continuing cycle of new social movements beginning around the end of the 1970s. This article begins with an examination of the differences and similarities in the formation of these cycles against the background of antecedent political opportunity structures. The question of the relationship between social protest movements and formal voluntary associations is then addressed. It is shown that social movements and formal voluntary associations have been interactive, mutually reinforcing ways of reacting to different manifestations of social crisis. Existing formal associations …
Attivisti 5 Stelle a Palermo
2015
Nel 2005 nasce il primo Meetup palermitano, alla protesta contro i partiti unisce l’impegno ambientalista. Nel 2012 alle comunali la lista civica del Movimento 5 Stelle non raggiunge il 5%, ma diventa primo partito alle regionali (14,9%). Gli attivisti intervistati raccontano le diverse fasi del movimento a Palermo, tra successi e periodi critici. In 2005 the first Meetup arose in Palermo in order to protest against political parties and to support environmental issues. In 2012 the municipal civic list 5 Star Movement did not reach 5%, but it became the first party at the regional elections (14.9%). The interviewed activists illustrate the different stages of the movement in Palermo, descri…
Rethinking Civil Society in Development: Scales and Situated Hegemonies
2016
Ethnic residential segregation is often explained with the claim that ‘immigrants don’t want to integrate—they prefer to stick together with co-ethnics’. By contrast, mixed neighbourhoods are seen as crucial for achieving social cohesion. In line with spatial assimilation theory there is a normative assumption that people interact with those living nearby. From interviews on neighbourhood qualities and locations valued by Oslo residents of Turkish, Somali and Polish backgrounds, we raise questions about the validity of two assumptions: that most immigrants want to live in the same neighbourhoods as co-ethnics; and that they want to live close to co-ethnics because they do not want to integr…