Indigenous Movements, Collective Action, and Social Media: New Opportunities or New Threats?

Media Violence and Social Neuroscience New Questions and New Opportunities

Decades of research have demonstrated that exposure to violence on television can cause increases in aggression. The recent emergence of violent video games has raised new questions regarding the effects of violent media. The General Aggression Model (GAM) predicts that exposure to violent media increases aggressive behavior through one of three primary pathways (arousal, cognitions, and affect...

Power Plays: How Social Movements and Collective Action Create New Organizational Forms

Organizational theory emphasizes how new organizational forms are produced by technological innovation but has glossed over the role of cultural innovation. This chapter suggests that social movements are important sources of cultural innovation and identifies the scope conditions under which social movements create new organizational forms. By doing so, it lends substance to the notion of inst...

Teens' social media use and collective action

This research examined how social self-efficacy, collective self-esteem, and need to belong can be used to predict teens’ use of social media. The particular focus was on how these social psychological variables together with social media use account for variation in teens’ participation in a flash mob—an exemplar of 21-century collective action. Empirical data come from a survey of teens in a ...

Combating Threats to Collective Attention in Social Media: An Evaluation

Breaking news, viral videos, and popular memes are all examples of the collective attention of huge numbers of users focusing in large-scale social systems. But this selforganization, leading to user attention quickly coalescing and then collectively focusing around a phenomenon, opens these systems to new threats like collective attention spam. Compared to many traditional spam threats, collec...

Formal Models in Studying Collective Action and Social Movements