Critical Analysis of Digital Activism

Books

• Baer, H. (2017). Redoing feminism: digital activism, body politics, and neoliberalism. In C. Scharff, C. Smith-Prei, & M. Stehle (Eds.), Digital feminisms: Transnational activism in German protest cultures. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315406220
• Briones, R. L., Janoske, M., & Madden, S. (2016). Hashtag activism at its best? A comparative analysis of nonprofit social media use for mobilizing online action. In M. Zavattaro & T. A. Bryer (Eds.), Social media for government: Theory and practice (pp. 159-182). Routledge.
• Castells, M. (2015). Networks of outrage and hope: Social movements in the internet age. John Wiley and Sons.
• Couldry, N. (2010). Theorising media as practice. In B. Bräuchler & J. Postill (Eds.), Theorising media and practice (pp. 35–54). Berghahn Books.
• Daniels, J. (2016). The trouble with white feminism: Whiteness, digital feminism, and the intersectional internet. In S. U. Noble & B. M. Tynes (Eds.), The intersectional internet: Race, class, and culture online (pp. 41–60). Peter Lang Publishing.
• Hands, J. (2011). @ is for activism: Dissent, resistance and rebellion in a digital culture. Pluto Press.
• Joyce, M. C. (Ed.). (2010). Digital activism decoded: The new mechanics of change. IDEBATE Press.
• White, M., & Negra, D. (Eds.). (2022). Anti-feminisms in media culture. Routledge.
• Withers, D. M. (2015). Feminism, digital culture and the politics of transmission: Theory, practice and cultural heritage. Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd.

Scholarly/Peer-Reviewed

• Bennett, W. L., & Segerberg, A. (2012). The logic of connective action: Digital media and the personalization of contentious politics. Information, Communication & Society, 15(5), 739–768. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2012.670661
• Beutz Land, M. (2009). Networked activism. Harvard Human Rights Journal, 22(2), 205-243. https://journals.law.harvard.edu/hrj/wp-content/uploads/sites/83/2009/09/land.pdf
• Bimber, B., Flanagin, A. J., & Stohl, C. (2005). Reconceptualizing collective action in the contemporary media environment. Communication Theory, 15(4), 365-388. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2885.2005.tb00340.x
• Brunsting, S., & Postmes, T. (2002). Social movement participation in the digital age: predicting offline and online action. Small Group Research, 33(5), 525-554. https://doi.org/10.1177/104649602237169
• Carty, V. (2010). New information communication technologies and grassroots mobilization. Information, Communication & Society, 13(2), 155-173. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691180902915658
• Carty, V., & Onyett, J. (2006). Protest, cyberactivism and new social movements: The reemergence of the peace movement post 9/11. Social Movement Studies, 5(3), 229-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742830600991586
• Clark, R. (2016). “Hope in a hashtag”: The discursive activism of #Whyistayed. Feminist Media Studies, 16(5), 788–804. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2016.1138235
• Cole, K. K. (2015). “It’s like she’s eager to be verbally abused”: Twitter, trolls, and (en)gendering disciplinary rhetoric. Feminist Media Studies, 15(2), 356–358. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2015.1008750
• Dahlberg-Grundberg, M. (2015). Technology as movement: on hybrid organizational types and the mutual constitution of movement identity and technological infrastructure in digital activism. Convergence, 22(5), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354856515577921
• Foust, C. R., & Hoyt, K. D. (2018). Social movement 2.0: Integrating and assessing scholarship on social media and movement. Review of Communication, 18(1), 37-55. https://doi.org/10.1080/15358593.2017.1411970
• Ganzer, M. (2014). In bed with the trolls. Feminist Media Studies, 14(6), 1098–1100. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2014.975441
• George, J. J., & Leidner, D. E. (2019). From clicktivism to hacktivism: Understanding digital activism. Information and Organization, 29(3). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoandorg.2019.04.001
• Halupka, M. (2018). The legitimisation of clicktivism. Australian Journal of Political Science, 53(1), 130-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/10361146.2017.1416586
• Jurgenson, N. (2012). When atoms meet bits: Social media, the mobile web and augmented revolution. Future Internet, 4(1), 83-91. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi4010083
• Nguyen, A. H. (2022). The digital age: Our feminist echo chamber. Journal of Feminist Scholarship,  20, 88-89. https://doi.org/10.23860/jfs.2022.20.13
• Novak, A. N., & Khazraee, E. (2014). The stealthy protester: Risk and the female body in online social movements. Feminist Media Studies, 14(6), 1094-1095. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2014.975438
• Schradie, J. (2018). The digital activism gap: How class and costs shape online collective action. Social Problems, 65(1), 51–74. https://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spx042
• Loken, M. (2014). #Bringbackourgirls and the invisibility of imperialism. Feminist Media Studies, 14(6), 1100–1101. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2014.975442
• Maxfield, M. (2016). History retweeting itself: Imperial feminist appropriations of “Bring Back Our Girls.” Feminist Media Studies, 16(5), 886–900. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2015.1116018
• Thimsen, A. F. (2022). What is performative activism? Philosophy & Rhetoric, 55(1), 83-89. https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.55.1.0083
• Wellman, M. (2022). Black squares for Black lives? Performative allyship as credibility maintenance for social media influencers on Instagram. Social Media + Society, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051221080473.
• Yang, G. (2009). China since Tienanmen: Online activism. Journal of Democracy, 20(3), 33-36. https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.0.0094

Popular Press

• Alfaro, C. (2022, May 30). Performative activism kills, there needs to be more pressure to vote. The Cougar. https://thedailycougar.com/2022/05/30/performative-activism-kills-more-pressure-to-vote/
• Fisher-Quann, R. (2023). Internet criticism will never be ethical. i-D. https://i-d.vice.com/en/article/93aeb5/internet-criticism-trolling-ethics
• Gladwell, M. (2010, October 4). Small change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted. The New Yorker. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/04/small-change-malcolm-gladwell
• Jacquot, S. (2022, January 20). Social media activism: Accessible or performative? The Observer. https://theobserver-qiaa.org/social-media-activism-accessible-or-performative
• Talking race in the Digital Sphere – is “new activism” here to stay? (n.d.) United Nations. https://www.un.org/en/academic-impact/talking-race-digital-sphere%E2%80%93-%E2%80%9Cnew-activism%E2%80%9D-here-stay

Videos

• TED. (2015, February 2). Zeynep Tufekci: How the Internet has made social change easy to organize, hard to win [Video]. YouTube. https://youtu.be/Mo2Ai7ESNL8.
• TEDxTalks. (2019, March 15). From social media to social impact | Amonge Sinxoto | TEDxLytteltonWomen [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G3OqmGhLgc