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Data in Movement: the Social Movement Society in the Age of Datafication by Stefania Milan; Davide Beraldo is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Data in Movement: the Social Movement Society in the Age of Datafication about?
Data has increased currency in contemporary activism and has become an integral part of the action repertoire of today's social movements. But data and data infrastructure are not only tools to support a movement's struggle: they are constitutive parts of the environment in which movements operate, and objects of contention in their own right. These developments challenge scholars of social movements and collective action. How are movements changing under the pressure of datafication? What 'new' mechanisms, actors and tactics meet the growing demand for citizen participation in an increasingly datafied society? Is social movement scholarship 'fit' to capture and interpret this evolution? This theoretical article puts social movement studies in dialogue with critical data studies with the aim of encouraging a much-needed crosspollination. It advances the notion of 'datafied movements' to address the novel structural condition of contentious politics in the age of datafication and to explore the socio-technical, systemic effects of data and data infrastructure on movement dynamics. It reflects on how five key social movement dynamics, and the related elements in the conceptual toolbo
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- Author
- Stefania Milan; Davide Beraldo
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2024
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences