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A Marxist and an Anarchist Walk into the Occupy Movement: internal and external communication practices of radical left groups
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posted on 2017-09-25, 15:12 authored by Thomas SwannThe uprisings that occurred around the world in 2011 (the Arab Spring,
the Occupy movement and the Spanish Indignados/15M), as well as subsequent
protest movements in Brazil (2013) and Turkey (2013–2014), have
been characterised as social media revolutions due to the use by participants
of online platforms such as Twitter and Facebook (Castells 2012;
Mason 2012). A number of studies, however, have shown that this is
often an inaccurate representation and that traditional forms of communication,
such as face-to-face interaction, together with traditional older
forms of online media (such as e-mail networks, fora, websites), are considered
by participants to be more central to these events than newer
social media (Fuchs 2014a, 85).
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Contemporary Protest and the Legacy of DissentPages
79 - 94 (16)Citation
SWANN, T., 2014. A Marxist and an Anarchist walk into the Occupy Movement: internal and external communication practices of radical left groups. IN: Price, S. and Sanz Sabido, R. (eds.). Contemporary protest and the legacy of dissent. London: Rowman and Littlefield, pp.79-94.Publisher
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