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065 - Section on Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology. Race, Social Movements and Digital Media Technologies
Sat, August 12, 10:30am to 12:10pm, Palais des congrès de Montréal, Floor: Level 5, 513CSession Submission Type: Paper Session 100min
Description
From the rise of #BlackLivesMatter to the spread of alt-right memes like "Pepe," the ubiquity of digital media technologies has significant implications for social movements. This open session welcomes papers that offer sociological insights into the ways these technologies reconfigure our understanding of social movements.
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The Effect of #BlackLivesMatter: The Significance of Communities and Collective Identity - Simon Weffer-Elizondo, Northern Illinois University; Stephanie Delise Jones, University of California, Irvine
Hate Speech Online and the Fight for Legal Protection: The Case of Japan - Vivian Shaw, University of Texas at Austin
The Master’s Tools Reimagined: Police Militarization and Strategies of Black Digital Resistance - Caliesha Lavonne Comley, Boston College
Black Women and the Subversive Occupation of Digital Space - Leslie Jones, University of Pennsylvania