Advances in the Visual Analysis of Social Movements

Advances in the Visual Analysis of Social Movements
Author: Nicole Doerr
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2013-03-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 178190636X

This special issue is a key text in the current study of social movements. It introduces new analytical concepts for understanding visuals in social movements and examines case studies from across the globe; such as analysis of the symbols used in the Egyptian uprising, and contested images from anti-surveillance protests in Europe.

Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change

Methodological Advances in Research on Social Movements, Conflict, and Change
Author: Thomas V. Maher
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2023-07-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1801178860

Now that we are almost a quarter of the way into the 21st century, the field of sociology is in need of research like this which explores methods for studying contentious politics in the context of broader social changes to peacebuilding, armed conflicts, and social movements.

Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines

Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines
Author: Conny Roggeband
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2017-07-31
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3319576488

This book aims to revisit the interdisciplinary roots of social movement studies. Each discipline raises its own questions and approaches the subject from a different angle or perspective. The chapters of this handbook are written by internationally renowned scholars representing the various disciplines involved. They each review the approach their sector has developed and discuss their disciplines’ contributions and insights to the knowledge of social movements. Furthermore, each chapter addresses the "unanswered questions" and discusses the overlaps with other fields as well as reviewing the interdisciplinary advances so far.

The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements

The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements
Author: Donatella Della Porta
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 865
Release: 2015
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0199678405

The Handbook presents a most updated and comprehensive exploration of social movement research. It not only maps, but also expands the field of social movement studies, taking stock of recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond sociology and political science. While structured around traditional social movement concepts, each section combines the mapping of the state of the art with attempts to broaden our knowledge of social movements beyond classic theoretical agendas, and to identify the contribution that social movement studies can give to other fields of knowledge.

Methodological Practices in Social Movement Research

Methodological Practices in Social Movement Research
Author: Donatella della Porta
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 497
Release: 2014-09-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0191030279

Social movement studies have grown enormously in the last few decades, spreading from sociology and political science to other fields of knowledge, as varied as geography, history, anthropology, psychology, economics, law and others. With the growing interest in the field, there has been also an increasing need for methodological guidance for empirical research. This volume addresses this need by introducing the main methods of data collection and data analysis as they have been used in past research on social movements. Unlike other volumes, the book offers a practical, how-to approach and not simply a review of the methodological literature. Each author writes on a method they are very familiar with, having used it extensively in their own work. And each chapter presents specific discussions on every stage of research: from research design to data collection and the use of the information gathered. Throughout, research dilemmas and choices are presented, illustrated, and discussed. The volume offers an essential point of references for anyone undertaking research on social movements.

Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media

Social Movements, Cultural Memory and Digital Media
Author: Samuel Merrill
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2020-02-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3030328279

This collected volume is the first to study the interface between contemporary social movements, cultural memory and digital media. Establishing the digital memory work practices of social movements as an important area of research, it reveals how activists use digital media to lay claim to, circulate and curate cultural memories. Interdisciplinary in scope, its contributors address mobilizations of mediated remembrance in the USA, Germany, Sweden, Italy, India, Argentina, the UK and Russia.

Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research

Conceptualizing Culture in Social Movement Research
Author: B. Baumgarten
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2014-09-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137385790

This volume introduces and compares different concepts of culture in social movement research. It assesses their advantages and shortcomings, drawing links to anthropology, discourse analysis, sociology of emotions, narration, spatial theory, and others. Each contribution's approach is illustrated with recent cases of mobilization.

Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age

Intercultural Communication, Identity, and Social Movements in the Digital Age
Author: Margaret U. D'Silva
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2019-12-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351399500

This book examines the complex and multidimensional relationship between culture and social media, and its specific impact on issues of identity and social movements, in a globalized world. Contemporary cyber culture involves communication among people who are culturally, nationally, and linguistically similar or radically different. Social media becomes a space for mediated cultural information transfer which can either facilitate a vibrant public sphere or create cultural and social cleavages. Contributors of the book come from diverse cultural backgrounds to provide a comprehensive analysis of how these social media exchanges allow members of traditionally oppressed groups find their voices, cultivate communities, and construct their cultural identities in multiple ways. This book will be of great relevance to scholars and students working in the field of media and new media studies, intercultural communication, especially critical intercultural communication, and academics studying social identity and social movements.

Semiotics and Visual Communication III

Semiotics and Visual Communication III
Author: Evripides Zantides
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 673
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1527543323

The chapters in this book consist of selected papers that were presented at the 3rd International Conference and Poster Exhibition on Semiotics and Visual Communication at the Cyprus University of Technology in November 2017. They investigate the theme of the third conference, “The Semiotics of Branding”, and look at branding and brand design as endorsing a reputation and inhabiting a status of almost mythical proportion that has triumphed over the past few decades. Emerging from its forerunner (corporate identity) to incorporate advertising, consumer lifestyles and attitudes, image-rights, market-research, customisation, global expansion, sound and semiotics, and “the consumer-as-the-brand”, the word “branding” currently appears to be bigger than its own umbrella definition. From tribal markers, such as totems, scarifications and tattoos, to emblems of power, language, fashion, architectural space, insignias of communal groups, heraldic devices, religious and political symbols, national flags and the like, a form of branding is at work that responds to the need to determine the presence and interaction of specific groups, persons or institutions through shared codes of meaning.

Methods of Exploring Emotions

Methods of Exploring Emotions
Author: Helena Flam
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2015-03-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317630467

Gathering scholars from different disciplines, this book is the first on how to study emotions using sociological, historical, linguistic, anthropological, psychological, cultural, and mixed approaches. Bringing together the emerging lines of inquiry, it lays foundations for an overdue methodological debate. The volume offers entrancing short essays, richly illustrated with examples and anecdotes, that provide basic knowledge about how to pursue emotions in texts, interviews, observations, spoken language, visuals, historical documents, and surveys. The contributors are respectful of those being researched and are mindful of the effects of their own feelings on the conclusions. The book thus touches upon the ethics of research in vivid first person accounts. Methods are notoriously difficult to teach—this collection fills the gap between dry methods books and students’ need to know more about the actual research practice.