Online Rebellion: Self-Organized Criticality of Contemporary Protest Movements

The theory of self-organized criticality (SOC) is applicable for explaining powerful surges of protest activity on social media. The objects of study were two protest clusters. The first was a set of Facebook groups that promoted the impeachment of the Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff. The second...

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Main Authors: Dmitry Zhukov, Konstantin Kunavin, Sergey Lyamin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2020-05-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244020923354