Social movements and digital media:
A case study of digital activism in Tunisia
PhD Proposal
Laura Pérez-Altable
Supervisor: Prof Javier Díaz-Noci
From the itinerary towards the objectives
Tunisia
Experience as
cognitive
liberation (Doug
McAdam)
Tunisia
Experience as
cognitive
liberation (Doug
McAdam)
Social
Movement as a
social process
(Bart
Cammaerts)
Tunisia
Experience as
cognitive
liberation (Doug
McAdam)
Replace the
dominant belief
system
(Gamson)
Social
Movement as a
social process
(Bart
Cammaerts)
Tunisia
Experience as
cognitive
liberation (Doug
McAdam)
Replace the
dominant belief
system
(Gamson)
Social
Movement as a
social process
(Bart
Cammaerts)
Involved in
conflictual
relations with
clearly
opponents (della
Porta & Diani)
Linked by dense
informal
networks (della
Porta & Diani)
Shared a distinc
collective
identity(della
Porta & Diani)
Central Public
Sphere
Source: Sampedro, V. (2000), Opinión pública y
democracia deliberativa. Madrid: Istmo
Peripheral
Public Sphere
Authoritarian State
(pre-revolutionary Tunisia)
Central Public
Sphere
Source: Sampedro, V. (2000), Opinión pública y
democracia deliberativa. Madrid: Istmo
Peripheral
Public Sphere
Central Public
Sphere
Authoritarian State
(pre-revolutionary Tunisia)
Digital
media
Central Public
Sphere
Source: Sampedro, V. (2000), Opinión pública y
democracia deliberativa. Madrid: Istmo
Peripheral
Public Sphere
Central Public
Sphere
An early Information Society: News and
the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Author: Robert Darnton
Source: The American Historical review, Vol. 105, No. 1
(Feb., 2000)
Objectives
1) Give an account of the online digital social network in Tunisia
after and during the uprising
2) Relate that social network with the studies of social
movements, in particular in a digital context.
1) Give an account of the online digital social network in Tunisia
after and during the uprising
2) Relate that social network with the studies of social
movements, in particular in a digital context.
3) Identifying which moments, leading figures and ideas are presented
or concealed
4) Identifying the making of leading figures in the revolutionary process
5) Analyzing the information flows
6) Understanding which symbols and frames of interpretation are
recurrently used by whom
Methodology
(An integrated approach)
Qualitative
Why?
What?
Questions
How?
With what
feeling?
Quantitative
When?
Who?
Questions
To Whom?
Where?
Methodologies
Methodology
Content analysis
Interviews
Social Network Analysis (SNA)
Retrieved from: Aragón, P.; Neff, J.G.; Kaltenbrunner, A.; Kappler, K.; Laniado, D.; Ruiz de Querol, R.; Ullod, C., and Volkovich, Y., (2012), ‘Bridging the Gap:
A reflection on an Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Media Research’
Qualitative
Quantitative
What?
Questions
How?
With what
feeling?
When?
Who?
Why?
An integrated
approach to
Social Media
Research
Questions
To Whom?
Where?
Methodologies
Methodology
Content analysis
Interviews
Social Network Analysis (SNA)
Retrieved from: Aragón, P.; Neff, J.G.; Kaltenbrunner, A.; Kappler, K.; Laniado, D.; Ruiz de Querol, R.; Ullod, C., and Volkovich, Y., (2012), ‘Bridging the Gap:
A reflection on an Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Media Research’
“The Arab Spring before the Arab Spring”
(some preliminary results)
#ammar404
#manif22mai
#tunileaks
Media and the Arab Spring: The Road Ahead
Thank you!
Gràcies!
“If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your
revolution”
(Emma Goldman)
Laura Pérez-Altable [[email protected] / @Lau2]