Category: Blogosphere

Anthropology of user-generated connections and mobilization 0

Anthropology of user-generated connections and mobilization

I have been thinking about online mobilization by social movements for quite some time now. It is clear by now that social movements (environmental, women, labor, religious, and so on) try to recruit and mobilize their constituency online by building and disseminating collective action frames and while participation in social movements back in the old days seem to have been limited to activists, today a broader group maybe involved in online mobilization. In order to understand the major impact of this, merely looking at content is not enough, the content must be related to larger frames ‘out there’ and user-generated connections; together they can explain user-generated mobilization.

Mobiliseren en ridiculiseren van onbehagen – Over kutmarokkanen, haatbaarden en tokkies 4

Mobiliseren en ridiculiseren van onbehagen – Over kutmarokkanen, haatbaarden en tokkies

Het is een geliefde bezigheid, het ridiculiseren van aanhangers van islam en van Geert Wilders. Termen als haatbaarden (gereserveerd voor alles wat op radicale moslims lijkt en met Rage Boy als een bijna archetypische verbeelding ervan) en tokkies (meest recent gereserveerd voor aanhangers van Geert Wilders die in beeld kwamen tijdens de eerste dag van het proces tegen hem. Degenen die de tokkies aanvallen hebben echter vaak meer gemeen met hen dan ze denken. Wat is dan de functie van dergelijke ridiculiserings-rituelen?

Closing the week 5 0

Closing the week 5

A weekly round up of writings on the Internet, some relevant for my research, some political, some funny but all of them interesting (Dutch/English). (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.)

Closing the week 3 0

Closing the week 3

A weekly round up of writings on the Internet, some relevant for my research, some political, some funny but all of them interesting (Dutch/English). (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.)

Closing the Week 2 0

Closing the Week 2

A weekly round up of writings on the Internet, some relevant for my research, some political, some funny but all of them interesting (Dutch/English). (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.)