Connected Activism: Indigenous Uses of Social Media for Shaping Political Change
Prior studies describe digital tactics as specific strategies actors apply within broader repertoires of contention, specifically in social and political contexts. A comparison of EZLN, Idle No More, and the ongoing Rio Yaqui water rights movement reveals the kinds of community knowledge work that h...
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doaj-36b73c619f6546029409e6c54ee6c42c2021-08-02T09:44:41ZengAustralasian Association for Information SystemsAustralasian Journal of Information Systems1449-86181449-86182017-07-0121010.3127/ajis.v21i0.1525631Connected Activism: Indigenous Uses of Social Media for Shaping Political ChangeMarisa Elena Duarte0Arizona State UniversityPrior studies describe digital tactics as specific strategies actors apply within broader repertoires of contention, specifically in social and political contexts. A comparison of EZLN, Idle No More, and the ongoing Rio Yaqui water rights movement reveals the kinds of community knowledge work that has to happen prior to and around activating digital tactics in Indigenous rights movements, including choices in messaging and discourses of Indigeneity, targeting of movement opponents, and selection of digital tools and techniques. Activists harness these communicative affordances to practice a politics of visibility, cultivate solidarity, diffuse an Indigenous consciousness, enforce dominant governments’ trust and treaty responsibilities, and remind many of the irrevocable injustice of colonialism. Designing methodologies that account for specific Indigenous social and political contexts as well as the affordances of various digital environments is part of the future work of Indigenous media theorists.http://journal.acs.org.au/index.php/ajis/article/view/1525Social mediaIndigenous peoplesmethodologyactivismsocial movements |
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Connected Activism: Indigenous Uses of Social Media for Shaping Political Change |
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Connected Activism: Indigenous Uses of Social Media for Shaping Political Change |
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Connected Activism: Indigenous Uses of Social Media for Shaping Political Change |
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Australasian Association for Information Systems |
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Australasian Journal of Information Systems |
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1449-8618 1449-8618 |
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Prior studies describe digital tactics as specific strategies actors apply within broader repertoires of contention, specifically in social and political contexts. A comparison of EZLN, Idle No More, and the ongoing Rio Yaqui water rights movement reveals the kinds of community knowledge work that has to happen prior to and around activating digital tactics in Indigenous rights movements, including choices in messaging and discourses of Indigeneity, targeting of movement opponents, and selection of digital tools and techniques. Activists harness these communicative affordances to practice a politics of visibility, cultivate solidarity, diffuse an Indigenous consciousness, enforce dominant governments’ trust and treaty responsibilities, and remind many of the irrevocable injustice of colonialism. Designing methodologies that account for specific Indigenous social and political contexts as well as the affordances of various digital environments is part of the future work of Indigenous media theorists. |
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Social media Indigenous peoples methodology activism social movements |
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